NASA’s Kepler Planet-Hunting telescope has lost its ability to point toward stars, because one of the reaction wheels that control the telescope’s orientation in space, has failed.
UPDADE: Have a look at this article: How NASA might revive the Kepler planet-hunter
What would happen if the Sun disappeared? In the video you will find out how much we and all planets are dependent from the Sun and more! Check out the video… Image © NASA SDO
What would happen if you tried to fly an Interplanetary Cessna, a normal Earth airplane above our Solar System’s Planets or their moons? At this small images you can see what happens when the aircraft is trying to fly at 32 largest Planetary bodies.
Earth-Like Planet close to Us discovered by International team of astronomers. A planetary system around the star Tau Ceti, with at least one of the planets orbiting in the habitable zone. An artist’s impression of the Tau Ceti system. Image credit: J. Pinfield for the RoPACS network at the University of Hertfordshire, 2012
Kepler-47 detected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, is the first transiting circumbinary system – multiple planets orbiting two suns – 4,900 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus. An artist’s concept illustration, credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle.
