... of 5 (± 2) % between 2013 and 2015. This trend rules out an ongoing atmospheric collapse as Pluto heads away from the Sun and is most likely due to a permanent N2 ice cap at Pluto’s north rotational pole - a result that is seen in models...
...as one encounter is suggested to be roughly coincident with the time of the formation of the Sun some 4.7 billion years ago. “The Sun formed at the time when stars were forming in the Milky Way because of the first passage of Sagittarius,” says Carme...
... Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the spacecraft’s orbit around the Sun, after it flew past Mercury, would be almost exactly twice the period of the planet itself, so the spacecraft and the planet would meet again and, with...
... possible from space. Kepler stared for four years at the same patch of sky, while K2, an ingenious extension of the Kepler mission using the radiation pressure from the Sun to stabilise the satellite, is only able to carry out short-duration stares...
... first, operations will pause as the Sun will get in the way. Solar conjunction occurs when the Sun moves between Ryugu and the Earth, interfering with communication with the spacecraft. From the end of November to the end of December, communication...
... Lagrange Point 1 (SEL-1). This is an unstable equilibrium point between the Earth and the Sun, about 1.5 million km sunward of Earth, where the gravitational effects of the Earth and Sun cancel each other out. Thin film structures are also affected...