This illustrations shows Scholz's star, a binary star that performed a stellar flyby of our solar system about 70,000 years ago. The sun is the small star in the upper left. There have been many ...

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Physical Review D, physicists at MIT say the presence of a tiny black hole speeding through the solar system could be identified by the gentle ...

2. Activity 1: Solar System Model (30 minutes) Hands-on Activity: Students will create a model of the solar system using Styrofoam balls, paint, and string.

U of A scale model solar system extends off campus to add Pluto's broken heart Henry Brean Jun 1, 2024 Updated Jun 5, 2024 ...

As a 1 to 10-billion scale model of the solar system, all dimensions depicted – including the diameters of the Sun, planets and moons, and the distances between worlds – are one 10-billionth ...

Aroostook County, Maine, is home to the largest 3D model of the solar system in the Western Hemisphere US News and World Report recently named Aroostook’s Maine School of Science and Mathematics ...

Deep in space, astronomers have witnessed a rare and powerful moment: the birth of planets around a distant baby star. This ...

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The Astronomical Journal (submitted to arXiv), 2025 DOI: 10.3847 ...

Our Solar System is beautiful, mysterious, largely unknown… and accessible. In the next hundred years, we can send robotic craft, and even human hands, to many of those worlds.

A solar system model is the most effective way to do this, and it is also a neat learning method. The 4M DIY Solar System Planetarium is an excellent choice, as it glows in the dark.

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...