Comet Tempel 1 – Learn About The Comet NASA Smashed Into
High-Speed Hit And Run Comet Tempel 1 is classified as a short period Jupiter-family comet with a current orbital period of years that was first discovered in 1867. Tempel 1…
Comet Hale-Bopp The Great Comet Of 1997
Histories Most Observed Comet! Comet Hale–Bopp was discovered by two amateur astronomers in 1995 and likely became the most viewed comet of the 20th century due to its spectacular brightness,…
Halley’s Comet – Fun Facts About The World Famous Comet
The Sun’s Regular Visitor! Astronomical records of Halley’s Comet visiting the inner Solar System date back from as early as 240 BC, but it wasn’t until Edmond Halley in 1705…
Comets | Facts About The Solar System’s Icy Wanderers ☄
Snowballs With Long Hair! Comets are small objects made up of rock and ice with highly elliptical orbits that on approaching the Sun, heat up and release gases and debris…
The Oort Cloud – Facts About The Solar System’s Outer Region!
The Distant Sphere Of Frozen Comets! The Oort cloud is a theoretical cloud of icy debris that is believed to encase the solar system and possibly extend beyond 50,000 AU…
Fun Facts About The Icy Kuiper Belt Region
The Cold Dark Icy Home Of Minor Planets The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped region beyond Planet Neptune between 30 and 55 astronomical units (AU) which is a subset of…
Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) – Learn About Hazardous Asteroids
Hazardous Orbiting Objects Near Earth Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been perturbed by the planets into orbits which enter Earth’s neighbourhood. NEOs are divided into NECs…
The Asteroid Belt – Interesting Facts You Should Know
Read About The Belt of Rubble Between Mars and Jupiter The asteroid belt, the doughnut-shaped region of asteroids that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, is home to the…
The Sun | The Star At The Center Of Our Solar System 🌞
Giver Of Heat, Light & Life! You see it every day (if you’re lucky), but have you ever wondered what exactly the Sun is? Well, it’s actually a gigantic sphere…
Eris – The Most Massive Dwarf Planet Discovered (To Date..)
The Distant Eris! Discovered in 2005, Eris prompted the formation of the new classification of Dwarf Planets and ultimately the demotion of Pluto! Eris orbits beyond Neptune, and the Kuiper Belt,…