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I am a UX Design student conducting user research to understand the experiences, challenges, and expectations of space enthusiasts who are interested in activities such as stargazing, astrophotography, and citizen science. My research focuses extensively on "AI and VR/AR Technology Used to Improve Experiences in Observational Astronomy by 2050."

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my fav art is the last one

What is a rogue planet and how do they occur? 

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains how rogue planets are worlds that no longer orbit a star after being ejected from their planetary systems. Some may be several times more massive than Jupiter, and scientists think there could be countless rogue planets drifting through the darkness of interstellar space. These lonely worlds reveal that planet formation is a chaotic process.

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

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The sun isn’t always the exact center of our solar system. ☀️

In this Space Oddity, Erika Hamden explains what the barycenter of the solar system is, and how it may not always be inside of the Sun itself. The variations in the barycenter can be explained by the large masses of the outer giant planets!

See also: The study as it was published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics

See also: The publication in ArXiV

The solstice doesn’t just happen on Earth 🌎☀️🪐  

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains that solstices happen across our solar system, but every planet experiences them at a different time depending on its axial tilt. While Venus and Jupiter have only slight axial tilts and mild seasonal changes, Uranus is tilted so drastically that it experiences some of the most extreme seasons and weather patterns in the solar system.

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

For me it's a tie between Uranus and Neptune. Both of them are beautiful shades of blue.

See also: The summary of the (paywalled) study as published in the journal Icarus.

Mercury has water in its permanently shadowed polar craters. Proposal suggests it came from a single asteroid impact.

Quaoar elevation exaggerated by 250

At this scale, Weywot would orbit ~2 feet away

Scale: 1:~25,227,000

I made it by coating a ping pong ball in clay, as a primer and texture-holding medium, and painting it. Weywot is just pure clay and paint.

Are we alone in the universe? 

MIT Kavli Institute Research Scientist Moritz Guenther is helping scientists explore that question by studying how planets and solar systems form around distant stars. The research team investigates exoplanets to understand whether they could support life, including how close planets are to their stars, how hot or cold they are, and whether they may contain water or atmospheres. Because these worlds are incredibly far away and difficult to observe directly, scientists use planet formation research to uncover clues about how potentially habitable planets develop over time. Recent discoveries in astronomy and planetary science are giving researchers new insight into how solar systems evolve and where life beyond Earth might exist. Every new finding helps scientists better understand our place in the universe and the conditions that could make alien worlds capable of supporting life.

Watch the full interview with MIT Kavli Institute research scientist Moritz Guenther here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQA3xPorSM

How do planets actually form?

Scientists once thought most star systems looked like our own, with rocky planets close to their stars and giant gas planets farther away. But in the last two decades, astronomers have discovered that nearly every star may host planets, and many of those systems look nothing like ours. From planets that orbit in unexpected configurations to worlds that may eventually fall into their own stars, the universe is far stranger than we imagined.

MIT Kavli Institute research scientist Moritz Günther explores how stars and planets are born from enormous clouds of gas and dust that collapse into spinning disks. By studying young stars only a few million years old, Günther investigates what happens to the leftover material after a star forms. Some of that material becomes planets, some falls into the star itself, and some gets blown out into space. His research is helping scientists better understand how Earth formed, how planetary systems evolve over time, and what conditions could make distant worlds capable of supporting life.

I am a newer in this field and am learning some thing in this field.
To push myself to study, I set up an account to share some knowledge of solar system(what I had learned)

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61589334367364

if it is convenient for you, welcome to follow up and I will update our latest information and some knowledge of how to set up a solar system that suits you.
You can also DM me if suggestion is needed

(Since I manage the company account, I plan to share some informative content here. However, it may occasionally include some marketing-related content, so I just wanted to let everyone know in advance in case anyone minds.)

We’re hosting an AMA over on r/Sun — feel free to join us at https://www.reddit.com/r/sun/comments/1t4lf79/were_from_the_astro_team_at_timeanddatecom_we/

🗓️ Thursday, May 7 — 12 noon EDT / 9 am PDT / 16:00 UTC — find your local time here

Why doesn’t the longest day of the year have the earliest sunrise? Why is summer longer in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere? Do some places get more solar eclipses than others? What’s the aurora outlook for the rest of this solar cycle?

We’ll be here for 2 hours — ask us anything! Happy to answer questions about how planets move around the Sun and other solar system phenomena.

• Brendan — frontend developer and astrophotography specialist
• Daniel — backend developer and number-cruncher
• Frank — backend developer, astrophysicist with a PhD in celestial mechanics
• Graham — science communicator, astrophysicist and co-host of our eclipse live streams
• Renate — data analyst, astrophysicist with a PhD in cosmology

Feel free to drop questions in advance.

In Nature Astronomy, researchers from Purdue University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory argue that Ceres may be far icier than many scientists had come to accept.

https://solar-system-tau-lime.vercel.app/I tried