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Everything you never needed to know. Ok maybe not everything, that would be ridiculous.Browsing Posts tagged Space
TweetGliese 581 is a star, a red dwarf star to be specific, that’s about 20 light years from Earth. Slap a ‘G’ on the end of that name and you have the sixth observed exoplanet in that solar system (gliesean system?). That’s cool, exoplanets are still fun but we’ve found over 400 of them now [...]
TweetThough it may be hard to believe, Neptune, once again the farthest planet from the Sun (in our solar system) thanks to Pluto’s demotion, completes it’s first orbit around the Sun in two day’s time. What that means is that on August 20th, Neptune will have traveled fully around the Sun for the first time [...]
