225088 Gonggong (2007 OR10) discovered on January 8, 2005 by Michael Brown and his team thanks to the 1.26 m telescope of Mount Palomar, it is also a dwarf planet. In…
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The Dwarf Planet, Pluto
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Until 2006 it was the last planet of the solar system. It belongs today to the family of the dwarf planets because its characteristics are too different from those of…
The Blue Planet
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Neptune is invisible to the naked eye. It was discovered in 1846 by Urbain Le Verrier because something disrupted the orbit of Uranus. The astronomer then made calculations and located…
The Georgian Planet
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. This planet is almost 5 times bigger than Earth and 14.5 heavier. It is about 2.9 billion km from the Sun, so…
Why do we need scientific names for things? Usually, one of two reasons. Either, for an international standard across languages, such as with many chemicals, or otherwise to be as…
Evening Star
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Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. As the second-brightest natural object in the night sky after the…
Morning Star
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In relation to the Sun, Venus is the second planet after Mercury, just in front of the Earth. No planet approaches closer to Earth than Venus; at its nearest it…
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