25 Facts You Learned in School That Are No Longer True
If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Pluto Is Still a Planet (Sort Of)
According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...
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Quad-Cities Popular Astronomy Club: Planet or not, Pluto is fascinating
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...
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If Planets Had Social Media: Mercury’s Tweets, Saturn’s LinkedIn, and Pluto’s Petition
Mercury tweets at breakneck speed, Venus flaunts on Instagram, Earth overshares on Facebook, and Pluto campaigns ... I AM A PLANET. DON’T LET NASA BULLY ME.” “Dwarf planet?
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
The planet, if it is indeed a planet ... an unremarkable orange K-class dwarf with just 64% the mass of our sun. As Gaia plotted the star's proper motion in the sky, it noticed that the star's ...
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Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
The brown dwarf, not quite a planet or a star, is Gaia-5b. Respectively, they are 244 and 134 light-years away. "This discovery is an exciting tip-of-the-iceberg for the exoplanet discoveries we ...