Plutarch, a Greek philosopher who lived around A.D. 100, believed that there are people on the moon. It was also thought that it is Earth’s nearest neighbor in space and that it also has seas and lands. These are assumptions that were made before humans were able to scientifically study the moon. There is no […]
On earth, during a cloudless night, while sunlight does not outshine the stars, 2,000 to 3,000 stars can be seen by the naked eye. They crowd the night sky and it is impossible to count them without using any tool. The number of stars that people see every night change as the Earth revolves around […]
Mars has no rings. Using comparative analysis, it should not have one since it has a solid structure just like the Earth. The only planets in the solar system known to possess rings are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. All are considered the outer and giant planets. Unlike Mars, their main compositions include ice and […]
Jupiter has a system of rings, which consists of 3 major components. Also called the Jovian ring system, the rings of Jupiter are not as visible from the Earth as those of Saturn. The rings are extremely faint and are made mostly of dust. Having low albedo, the rings don’t reflect enough sunlight so it […]
The moon is the brightest object in the Earth’s night sky. It is what gives off light on the other side of the Earth that doesn’t face the Sun. It doesn’t have internal heat and just radiates the light that comes from the Sun. It is also the only celestial object, aside from the Earth, […]
Stars, the bright, twinkling tiny spots of light that can be seen in the sky during the night, in fact have sizes that a human brain would not be able to exactly picture. These balls of light are so far from the earth that their distance is also unbelievable. The nearest star from the earth […]
Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system. It was named after the highest mythical Roman god who ruled over all the deities who live in Mt. Olympian. The name was given to the planet even before its exact mass was learned. But it was branded just right. When it comes to size, dimension […]
Jupiter was not named after Zeus, the god of all legendary Greek gods, for nothing. He is considered king when it comes to size among all the planets in the Solar System. It is an enormously huge and compact ball of cloud made up of mostly hydrogen and helium. It is incredibly massive that the […]
Mars have two satellites, Phobos and Deimos. These moons are irregularly shaped and much smaller than the Earth’s Moon. They were possibly not captured in the same way the Earth’s Moon was. They are thought to be asteroids or rubbles from a collision, which were eventually captured by Mar’s gravitational draw.Since they are too small […]
No other planet has mystified humans more than Mars. Earthlings have not set foot on it yet but stories about it have been told, published, and even inspired movies. It was named after the Roman god of war ‘Ares’, probably years after it was first sighted by a human eye. Who did and when it […]