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2 days ago · Philae. (spacecraft) Philae ( / ˈfaɪliː / [6] or / ˈfiːleɪ / [7]) was a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft [8] [9] until it separated to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten years and eight months after departing Earth. [10] [11] [12] On 12 November 2014, Philae touched down on the comet ...
2 days ago · Early life and family. Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence ), Italy, on 15 February 1564, [15] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, who had married in 1562. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his ...
5 days ago · Comet 4P/Faye is a short-period comet that orbits the Sun once every 7.34 years. It was discovered by Hervé Faye on November 23, 1843. The perihelion distance of the comet is about 1.61 AU, while its aphelion distance is approximately 6.03 AU. The orbital period is 7.48 Earth years.
2 days ago · First Recorded. 25 May 240 BC. 3 June 240 BC. 0.45. China, between 25 May and 23 June. 12 November 164 BC. 28 November 164 BC. 0.11. Reference found in 1984 on Babylonian tablets owned by the British Museum.
1 day ago · The Kuiper belt ( / ˈkaɪpər / KY-pər) [1] is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. [2] It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. [3] [4] Like the asteroid belt, it ...
3 days ago · September 30, 2021 - Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is one of the largest comets ever seen, measuring a colossal 150km wide. The newly discovered comet is set to fly through our inner solar system in 10 years. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is so large it has been classified as a dwarf planet.
4 days ago · The devil comet will be visible from about 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Arizona time on June 2. Look westward to spot it. The light of the comet could be challenging to see as the sky will not be fully dark.
