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Solar eclipse of 1999 August 11 Credit: Luc Viatour The solar eclipse of 1999 August 11, as seen from France. This was the most viewed total eclipse in...

Portal:Solar System/Selected article/1 Eris (minor-planet number 136199) is the most massive and second-largest-known dwarf planet in the Solar System...

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Template:POTD/2014-09-06 Solar flare Photo: Goddard Space Flight Center A solar flare, a sudden flash of brightness observed over the Sun's surface or the solar limb which...

quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System? ...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous...

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest within the Solar System. It is 318 times more massive than Earth, with a diameter 11 times...

Solar System portal news archive 13 June 2007: Mars was once covered by oceans, study says 23 May 2007: Spirit Rover on Mars finds water made 'silica-rich...

The formation and evolution of the Solar System began 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud...

136199) is the most massive and second-largest-known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has...

and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometers, the fourth largest moon in the Solar System. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, along with the other...

The scattered disc is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets, a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian...

Solar System portal "Did you know" archive Note: Newer facts added at top of most relevant section. ...that the Battle of Szkłów in 1654 occurred during...

atmosphere is far thicker and denser than that of any other rocky body in the Solar System. The atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and has a thick...

For the majority of its orbit it is the most distant known object in the Solar System other than long-period comets. Roughly two-thirds the size of Pluto...

and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly...

Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, it is the seventh moon and third Galilean...

Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. It is a rocky planet with a trace atmosphere and a surface gravity slightly...

replenish and keep constant the number of long-period comets entering the inner Solar System—where they are eventually consumed and destroyed during close approaches...

This is the process by which an image is chosen to appear on the Solar System portal. Each week, the nominee with the most votes is selected from below...

The Solar System consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their moons, five currently identified...

The Sun is the star located at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions...

largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It is primarily made of molecular hydrogen and helium in roughly solar proportions; other chemical compounds...

September 2002, is taken in the far ultraviolet on a relatively quiet day for solar activity. However, the image still shows a large sunspot group visible as...

a satellite. They are smaller than planets, but more massive than small solar system bodies. The term was adopted in 2006 by the International Astronomical...

the Solar System was being formed? ...that the trans-Neptunian object Eris (formerly known as 2003 UB313) is native to a distant region of the Solar System...

axial tilt of 23.5 degrees). A Martian solar year is equal to 1.88 Earth years (687 Earth days), a Martian solar day (sol) is equal to 24.6 hours. (Full article...

the Bach quadrangle? ...that the Sweden Solar System is currently the world's largest scale model of the Solar System? ...that the dominant feature in...

slightly smaller than Earth's Moon and is the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. Europa has a tenuous atmosphere composed primarily of molecular...

of pulling an interstellar comet into a Sun-centered orbit? ...that the Solar Sentinels, a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun, will have to survive...

will appear only once in thousands of years. Halley's returns to the inner Solar System have been observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC, and recorded...

the satellite one of only four known volcanically active worlds in the solar system. First predicted shortly before the Voyager 1 flyby, the heat source...

has the lowest minimum temperature (49 K (−224 °C; −371 °F)) of all the Solar System's planets. It has a marked axial tilt of 82.23° with a retrograde...

This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained...

zero-emissions vehicles. (from Sustainable energy) Image 19Yearly solar generation by continent (from Solar power) Image 20Fire-extinguishing operations after the...

of Earth's (about as wide as the contiguous United States). Within the Solar System, it is larger and more massive than any known dwarf planet, and the...

hand, uncrewed spacecraft have reached all of the known planets in the Solar System. Outer space represents a challenging environment for human exploration...

of comets around the Sun, is thought to be the origin of comets in the Solar System? ...that the Paragould Meteorite is the third-largest meteorite ever...

discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. It is...

quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System? ...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous...

The use of solar energy began in Israel in the 1950s with the development by Levi Yissar of a solar water heater to address the energy shortages that plagued...

Makemake is the third-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and one of the two largest Kuiper belt objects (KBO) in the classical KBO population...

either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power. Active solar techniques include...

Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly...

that the Caloris Basin on Mercury, one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System, is surrounded by a series of geological formations believed to have...

hundreds of them? ...that the Battle of Szkłów in 1654 occurred during a solar eclipse? ...that NASA engineer Harvey Allen's "Blunt Body Theory" made possible...

rings. The Jovian rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. The main ring was discovered in...

(pictured) on Jupiter's moon Callisto is the largest multi-ring basin in the Solar System? ... that Frank J. Low, an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data...

average-sized star, it is so large that its volume is equivalent to 1.3 million Earths and it contains approximately 99% of the total mass of the Solar System....

largest without a moon. It is also the only recognized dwarf planet in the solar system whose orbit lies within that of Neptune. In the minor planet numbering...

second most massive of Uranian moons, and the ninth most massive moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Oberon is named after a...

from Earth. The ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other components. ISS components have been launched by American...

either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power. Active solar techniques include...

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter, and the third largest by mass...

of a croissant. Its surface is one of the most heavily cratered in the Solar System, featuring a wide variety of crater sizes and ages. Ida's moon, Dactyl...

There are several solar power plants in the Mojave Desert which supply power to the electricity grid. Insolation (solar radiation) in the Mojave Desert...

Solar energy is the radiant light and heat from the Sun that has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies...

on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction...

Photo credit: JAXA/NASA A solar flare is a large explosion in the Sun's atmosphere that can release as much as 6 × 1025 joules of energy. The term is...

their orbits during the early stages of the formation and evolution of the Solar System or slightly later, during the migration of giant planets. (Full article...

Photovoltaics (PV) is a method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors that exhibit...

in astronomy. Two solar and two lunar eclipses take place in 2014 as follows. Total Lunar eclipse of April 15, 2014 Annular Solar eclipse of April 29...

A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both due primarily...

solar and two lunar eclipses take place in 2015 as follows. Total Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 Total Lunar eclipse of April 04, 2015 Partial Solar...

the 2015 World Solar Challenge in Australia. (Reuters) October 18, 2015: The 2015 World Solar Challenge starts in Darwin with the solar car Stella Lux...

power for Copenhagen. Picture 2 The world's largest solar energy dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center in Sde Boker, Israel. Picture 3 Renewable...

people work in the solar industry and 43 states deploy net metering, where energy utilities buy back excess power generated by solar arrays. Renewable...

passive solar energy, and an inventor with many patents to his credit. In his honor the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (“ASME”) Solar Division...

German architect, solar energy pioneer and environmental activist who has contributed greatly to the advancement and efficiency of solar architecture internationally...

German architect, solar energy pioneer and environmental activist who has contributed greatly to the advancement and efficiency of solar architecture internationally...

heliosphere 21 August 2017 – NASA.gov conducts a broadcast of the total solar eclipse with more than 50 million views of the live broadcast, and almost...

Lunar eclipse of May 25, 2013 Annular Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013 Penumbral Lunar eclipse of October 18, 2013 Hybrid Solar eclipse of November 03, 2013...

Presentation of the Solar System (not to scale). The Solar System consists of the Sun and all the objects that orbit around it, including meteors, asteroids...

The Sun is the star of our Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust) orbit the Sun, which...

order to reach Mercury 5 February 2002 – HESSI (High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) solar flare observatory is launched on a mission to explore the...

a main sequence star depends upon the mass of the star. In solar mass stars (0.3–1.5 solar masses), including the Sun, hydrogen-to-helium fusion occurs...

The Sun is the star at the center of Earth's Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust)...

large crater in the image is named. It is the twentieth-largest moon in the Solar System, and the smallest astronomical body that is known to be rounded in...

consumption of stored solar (as fossil fuels) and, in its place, use freely available 'fresh' solar". – David S. Findley (2010). Solar power for your home...

Comets are small Solar System bodies that orbit the Sun and, when close enough to the Sun, exhibit a visible coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both...

Tokai University's solar car "Tokai Challenger", the winner of the 2009 World Solar Challenge in Australia....

that the first recorded instance of solar distillation was by 16th century Arab alchemists? A large-scale solar distillation project was first constructed...

very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System. The movement of mass ejected from the Sun is known as the solar wind. (Full article...) Refresh with...

producer and installer of solar power capacity; globally, it produces 98% of solar wafers, 92% of solar cells and 85% of solar panels, and accounted for...

and expert on solar power. He is the director of the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center and Chairman of the Department of Solar Energy & Environmental...

solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both primarily from the effects of solar...

The world's largest solar energy dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center in Sde Boker, Israel....

are being deployed at the present time; they include solar heating, photovoltaics, wind power, solar thermal power stations, and modern forms of bioenergy...

The Solar System consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 165 known moons, three dwarf...

Photo credit: user:Anynobody The solar mass ( M ⊙ {\displaystyle {\begin{smallmatrix}M_{\odot }\end{smallmatrix}}} ) is a standard unit of mass in astronomy...

"The solar-power market offers perhaps one of the greatest opportunities among its clean-tech peers. Not only is the worldwide solar market growing by...

October 4, 1911) was a French inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine, converting solar energy into mechanical steam power. Mouchot was born in...

Template:POTD/2014-09-06 Solar flare Photo: Goddard Space Flight Center A solar flare, a sudden flash of brightness observed over the Sun's surface or the solar limb which...

Science and technology Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 Millions of United States residents and visitors are able to witness a total solar eclipse that crosses...

accompanying magnetic field from the solar corona. They often follow solar flares and are normally present during a solar prominence eruption. Coronal mass...

The Sun is the spectral type G2V yellow star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and many other bodies (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids...

Photo credit: kallerna Andasol Solar Power Station is a 150-megawatt (MW) concentrated solar power station and Europe's first commercial plant to use...

... that because solar cookers use no fuel and they cost nothing to run, humanitarian organizations are promoting their use worldwide to help slow deforestation...

one of its main solar panels. Debris from the lost micrometeoroid shield further complicated matters by pinning the remaining solar panel to the side...

Denis Hayes (1944– ) is an environmental activist and proponent of solar power. He rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day...

demand. Mark Z. Jacobson says producing all new energy with wind power, solar power, and hydropower by 2030 is feasible and existing energy supply arrangements...

converted or constructed "light rail transit" (LRT) in Japan? ...that in 2012 solar panels were installed on the canopy at Tower station in Tower, Minnesota...

which destroyed many buildings? ...that the Windorah Solar Farm uses five concentrated solar dishes each containing 112 square mirrors which sit atop...

Hills cloud; the outer extent of the cloud defines the boundary of the Solar System. Objects in the Oort cloud are largely composed of ices, such as...

coordinate system Missions to the Sun Solar observatories Solar phenomena Solar alignment Solar eclipses Solar energy Structure of the Sun Sun tanning Sundials...

passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk...

period. Halloween solar storms, 2003. The sun emits another coronal mass ejection directly toward the Earth, the third largest solar flare on record. The...

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft is a joint project of the ESA and NASA. It began its study of the Sun in May 1996 and currently...

A comet is a small solar system body bigger than a meteoroid, when close enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma (fuzzy "atmosphere"), and sometimes...

September 1971 – The Orbiting Solar Observatory 7 satellite launches with the first x-ray observations of a beginning solar flare and of solar streamers...

Solar eclipse of 1999 August 11 Credit: Luc Viatour The solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, as seen from France. This was the most viewed total eclipse...

On September 29, 2008, this magnificent eruptive solar prominence lifted away from the Sun's surface, unfurling into space over the course of several...

and evolution of the Solar System. It was first proposed in 1734 by Emanuel Swedenborg. Originally applied only to our own Solar System, this method of...

Picture 30 Photo credit: kallerna Andasol Solar Power Station is a 150-megawatt (MW) concentrated solar power station and Europe's first commercial...

total killed since May 1 to 115. Halloween Solar Storms. The Earth's magnetosphere is hit by the recent solar flare causing a brief but intense geomagnetic...

first Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, the first solar-powered aircraft capable of both day and night flight thanks to its batteries charged by solar power...

deserts and polar ice caps of Earth. It has the highest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, and the largest canyon, Valles Marineris. Mars' rotational...

The Solar System or solar system comprises the Sun and the retinue of celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 162 known...

that the first recorded instance of solar distillation was by 16th century Arab alchemists? A large-scale solar distillation project was first constructed...

essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System. The movement of mass ejected from the Sun is known as the solar wind. (Full article...)...

on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction...

upstaged the much anticipated Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System at the time. Scientific observations of the comet led to several...

of US intelligence about Iraq's weapons. Earth is hit by the Halloween Solar Storm, disrupting some satellite communications but not electric power transmission...

surfaces called a nova. Solitary stars with a mass below approximately nine solar masses, such as the Sun, evolve into white dwarfs without ever becoming...

With his solar and lunar theories and his numerical trigonometry, he was probably the first to develop a reliable method to predict solar eclipses. His...

A total solar eclipse during totality, seen from outside Crowheart, Wyoming on 21 August, 2017. At this point during the solar eclipse, the photograph...

/ˈsætərn/ is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Along with the planets Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune...

and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometers, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera that became one of the...

the Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home of the Solar System. The term "milky" originates from the hazy band of white light appearing...

on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction...

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter, with an average radius about nine times larger than...

absolute requirement for life is an energy source (usually but not necessarily solar energy), but the notion of planetary habitability implies that many other...

mass and spectral type. At just under 12 light years' distance from the Solar System, it is a relatively close star. Tau Ceti is "metal-deficient" and...

and extent of glaciations) and the forcing from the amount of incoming solar radiation, or insolation, which has little power on a 100,000 year (100...

shale reserves underneath approximately 60% of the country. The Baynouna Solar Power Plant, which will generate an estimated 3% of the country's power...

named after Kempe Gowda I, the founder of Bengaluru. It is Karnataka's first fully solar powered airport, developed by CleanMax Solar. (Full article...)...

in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Modern renewables (such as hydro, wind, solar and biofuels) and traditional biomass contributed in about equal parts to...

on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction...

long history to everything from divination to environmentalism. That the Solar System consists of nine planets is a widely-held and often repeated idea...

October 10, 1846, by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction...

The Kuiper belt is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun...

upstaged the long-awaited Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System at the time, although Hyakutake was at its brightest for only a few...

the founder of Bengaluru. It is Karnataka's first fully solar powered airport, developed by CleanMax Solar. (Full article...) Archives • Read more......

the Sun; it is the third largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. Uranus was the first planet discovered in modern times. Though it...

power delivered per unit solar energy consumed) than ethanol or methanol production. Biobutanol can be made entirely with solar energy, from algae (called...

Solar water heating (SWH) is heating water by sunlight, using a solar thermal collector. A variety of configurations are available at varying cost to...

largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It is primarily made of molecular hydrogen and helium in roughly solar proportions; other chemical compounds...

one of the outer limits of the sun's influence. It is where the bubble of solar wind particles slows down to subsonic speed (with respect to the star) due...

Einstein Tower Credit: Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam The Einstein Tower, a solar observatory in Potsdam...

process heat for industrial purposes. Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture...

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Right Livelihood Award for his "indefatigable work for the promotion of solar energy worldwide". Scheer believes that the continuation of current patterns...

founder of Bengaluru. It is Karnataka's first fully solar powered airport, developed by CleanMax Solar. (Full article...) Hotel Leela Venture Ltd is an Indian...

The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets known as scattered disc...

ratios of xenon are an important tool for studying the early history of the Solar System. Xenon-135 is produced as a result of nuclear fission and acts as...

September 2002, is taken in the far ultraviolet on a relatively quiet day for solar activity. However, the image still shows a large sunspot group visible as...

Mars /ˈmɑːrz/ is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the...

Quotation 7 "The solar-power market offers perhaps one of the greatest opportunities among its clean-tech peers. Not only is the worldwide solar market growing...

of the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small bulge of about 3 billion solar masses. Read more......

Solar cookers use sunlight as energy source for outdoor cooking....

relating to insider trading. (CNN) Science and technology Solar eclipse of August 11, 2018 A partial solar eclipse occurs over northern Europe and Siberia. (EclipseWise)...

Freedom. 1979 – The space station Skylab returns to Earth. 1991 – Total solar eclipse in Hawaii and Mexico. 1995 – Full diplomatic relations are established...

currently executive chairman of Solarcentury the UK’s largest independent solar electric company. He also serves as a founding director of the world's first...

NASA's Pathfinder Plus solar aircraft in flight over Hawaii...

Planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System; while the sizes are to scale, the relative distances from the Sun are not....

known natural objects in the Solar System. Because Eris is larger than Pluto, its discoverers and NASA called it the Solar System’s tenth planet. This...

objectives include studies of regolith properties, interactions with the solar wind, possible current activity as indicated by dust or gas, and the asteroid...

Credit: commons:User:S-kei Equivalent circuit of a solar cell....

mass of around 150 solar masses, of which it has lost at least 30 since. It is thought that a Wolf–Rayet star of approximately 30 solar masses exists in...

Solar corona above statue of El Cid, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor image credit: Brocken Inaglory...

Monocrystalline silicon is used to produce the highest efficiency solar photovoltaic cells....

April 14: Vaisakhi (solar new year)...

International Space Station solar panel array with the horizon of the Earth in the background...

PS10 and PS20, Europe's most powerful solar power towers, near Seville, Spain...

a satellite. They are smaller than planets, but more massive than small solar system bodies. The term was adopted in 2006 by the International Astronomical...

diameter of 3,642 kilometres (2,263 mi), the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after the mythological character of Io, a priestess...

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun".-Ralph Nader...

President Barack Obama addressed an audience of more than 450 people at the Nellis Solar Power Plant on May 27, 2009....

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of July 2007, the count of known exoplanets stands at 248. The vast majority...

Titania is the largest moon of Uranus and the eight largest in the Solar System. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1787....

The atmosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It is mostly made of molecular hydrogen and helium; other chemical...

S. in Energy Systems Engineering and an M.S. in Energy Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. He is on the board of directors with Solar City....

generate energy. Stars below about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun (or 1.5 solar masses) primarily fuse hydrogen atoms together in a series of stages to...

Artist's depiction of the Solar System and the planetary system of 55 Cancri...

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Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System....

Photo credit: Björn Appel A solar furnace can be used to generate electricity, melt steel or make hydrogen fuel....

word planet had a more firm definition: it applied only to objects in the Solar System, a number small enough that any differences could be dealt with on...

Moldova. 7 August 2014: Solar power capacity in China has increased by 3.3 GW in the first half of 2014, more than the entire solar capacity of Australia...

which could travel at least up to Mach 5. (CNN) Solar Impulse project The solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 landed in Hawaii from Japan, completing...

Photo credit: Flickr The 11 MW PS10 solar power tower near Seville in Spain....

"viper"), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU)...

2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit. 1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun. 1978 -...

are being deployed at the present time; they include solar heating, photovoltaics, wind power, solar thermal power stations, and modern forms of bioenergy...

the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, as well as solar–terrestrial interactions and analogous processes on the Moon, other planets...

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the constellation Pegasus. A distance of about 150 light years from the Solar System, it is just luminous enough to be seen with the unaided eye. The...

Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, it is the seventh moon and third Galilean...

Islamic calendar is based on sightings of the crescent moon (hilāl), with a year being approximately 11 days shorter than the 365 days of solar calendars?...

winds and tide. (Full article...) edit  Planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System; while the sizes are to scale, the relative distances from the Sun...

who was long employed as a part-time externally funded researcher at the Solar and Stellar Physics (SSP) Division of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for...

second), providing the first direct observation of the collision of two Solar System objects. The collision resulted in disruptions in Jupiter's atmosphere...

solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both primarily from the effects of solar...

order to reach Mercury 5 February 2002 – HESSI (High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) solar flare observatory is launched on a mission to explore the...

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. As of February 2007, the count of known exoplanets stands at 212. The vast majority...

Austria (62 percent), New Zealand (65 percent), and Sweden (54 percent)." "Solar hot water provides an important contribution to meeting hot water needs...

1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System. More events: August 2 – August 3 – August 4...

... that Xiuhtecuhtli (mask pictured), the Aztec god of fire, was one of the nine Lords of the Night even though he was a solar deity?...

California created the world's first practical electric-powered radio controlled model airplane and the world's first full-scale solar-powered airplane?...

Photo credit: NASA's STEREO The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Sun has a diameter of about 1,392,000 kilometers (865,000 mi) (about...

its discovery on March 13, 1781, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history and also making it the first...

appeared in the inner parts of the Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in mid-2061. Halley's returns to the inner Solar System have been observed and...

very strong magnetic fields cause lower temperatures than the surrounding solar surface, although very high temperatures are often observed above sunspots...

fifth-largest planet of the eight in the Solar System. It is also the largest, most massive, and densest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. Home...

deserts and polar ice caps of Earth. It has the highest mountain in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, and the largest canyon, Valles Marineris. Mars' rotational...

The heliospheric current sheet extends to the outer reaches of the Solar System, and results from the influence of the Sun's rotating magnetic field on...

Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies, such as vegetable-powered vehicles, solar vehicles, and organic farming exhibits? Archives...

of Santander, Palencia and Burgos is established, appointing Vicente del Solar Romero as Vice President and Minister of Popular Credit, Teodoro Quijano...

word planet had a more firm definition: it applied only to objects in the Solar System, a number small enough that any differences could be dealt with on...

first Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, the first solar-powered aircraft capable of flying both day and night thanks to batteries charged by solar power...

trigonometry. With his solar and lunar theories and his trigonometry, he may have been the first to develop a reliable method to predict solar eclipses. His other...

The Solar System consists of the Sun and its planetary system of eight planets, their moons, and other non-stellar objects. It formed 4.6 billion years...

Project Constellation, which plans to send human explorers back to the Moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the Solar System. (more...)...

and environment in greater detail. Enceladus is one of only three outer Solar System bodies (along with Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's moon Triton) where...

NASA Mars Czar was Director for Mars Exploration and the Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters? .....

2006, the IAU officially adopted a resolution defining planets within the Solar System. Copernicus suggested that the planets orbited the Sun, and this...

... that Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets, a 2009 Earthscan book by Damian Miller, argues that in order to solve the...

Andes; born Juana Enriqueta Josefina de Los Sagrados Corazones Fernández Solar; 13 July 1900 – 12 April 1920) was a Chilean Discalced Carmelite. (Full...

the largest planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter, along...

Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System. It is also the smallest, and its orbit is the most eccentric (that is, the least perfectly circular)...

large crater in the image is named. It is the twentieth-largest moon in the Solar System, and the smallest astronomical body that is known to be rounded in...

2005 Thin-film solar cell manufacturer Solyndra (logo pictured) is founded in Fremont YouTube is founded in San Bruno The St. Regis Museum Tower in San...

economics Lightsource BP, a solar energy developer headquartered in London, has announced that it will acquire utility-scale solar projects in Brazil, 1.9...

Pictured left: The albedo of several types of roofs. Solar radiation modification (SRM), also called solar geoengineering, is a group of large-scale approaches...

encompasses two broad categories: large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation modification (SRM). CDR involves techniques to remove carbon dioxide...

1994 was the first time astronomers had observed a collision between two Solar System bodies. This chain of craters on Jupiter's moon Ganymede provides...

Einstein Timeline of the far future Timeline of the Manhattan Project List of particles Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons...

will appear only once in thousands of years. Halley's returns to the inner Solar System have been observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC, and recorded...

Spaceflight concepts Space debris Spaceflight ground equipment Exploration of the Solar System by target History of spaceflight Interstellar travel Space-flown...

The heliospheric current sheet extends to the outer reaches of the Solar System, and results from the influence of the Sun's rotating magnetic field on...

NEWS - Science/Nature - Earth put on solar storm alert". Retrieved 22 December 2015. "CNN.com - Cloud of solar gas strikes our planet - Oct. 24, 2003"...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation. (The Sydney Morning Herald) 32 Extra Solar planets are discovered and announced, this making the record of most exoplanets...

gravitational fields than those found in the Solar System. Both in the weak field limit (as in the Solar System) and with the stronger fields present...

ten times longer, seven times wider and seven times deeper than the Grand Canyon of Arizona, making it the largest known crevice in the solar system....

designation: 10 Hygiea) is a major asteroid located in the main asteroid belt. It is the fourth-largest asteroid in the Solar System by both volume and mass....

A Glossary of Astronomical Terms Introduction to Astrophysics General relativity Observing the Sky from 30°S Observing the Sky from 40°N Solar System...

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The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) constantly monitors the Sun from the Lagrangian point between the Earth and the Sun. It has discovered hundreds...

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... that Dutch Nuna solar racing team, guided by former Space Shuttle astronaut Wubbo Ockels (pictured) won the World Solar Challenge six times out of...

and ending on the Sun's visible surface (photosphere) projecting into the solar atmosphere (corona). Image of typical coronal loops observed by TRACE....

was the first time astronomers had ever observed a collision between two Solar System objects. The impact of the cometary fragments created giant dark...

1994 was the first time astronomers had observed a collision between two Solar System bodies. This chain of craters on Jupiter's moon Ganymede provides...

lenticular galaxy located approximately 55 million light-years from the Solar System in the Virgo constellation and discovered on 13 April 1784 by William...

at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Ed Lee is elected mayor of San Francisco Fremont solar panel manufacturer Solyndra closes Former San Francisco District Attorney...

Eagles announce that Lincoln Financial Field will be fitted with 2,500 solar panels, 80 20-foot-tall wind turbines, and a generator fueled by natural...

Farnborough Airshow, UK. 2010 – (7–8) The Solar Impulse I HB-SIA makes a circumnavigation of the planet, the first by a solar powered aircraft. The flight also...

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Active asteroids are small Solar System bodies that have asteroid-like orbits but show comet-like visual characteristics. Image of asteroid (596) Scheila...

exactly 1.5 times in each orbit around the Sun, making Mercury the only planet with an orbital resonance in the solar system with a value other than 1:1....

Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. Image of Eris (center) and Dysnomia (left of center), taken by the...

carbon and oxygen. If the mass of the progenitor is above 8 solar masses but below 10.5 solar masses, the core temperature suffices to fuse carbon but not...

Olympus Mons is the highest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System. It is located on the planet Mars at approximately 18°N 133°W / 18°N 133°W...

... that the Exelon Pavilions, a set of four solar energy generating structures in Millennium Park of Chicago, provide sufficient energy to power the...

god of fire, was one of the nine Lords of the Night even though he was a solar deity? Wikipedia:Recent additions 242, as it appeared on Main Page on 1...

most luminous of its type, it has a radius of approximately 1,420 ± 120 solar radii (equal to a diameter of 13.2 astronomical units, or about 1,976,640...

Aditya-L1, its first solar observation mission, to observe the solar corona, photosphere and chromosphere, and to study solar winds and solar flares and their...

ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner solar system. (more...)...

telescope has discovered 95 new exoplanets. (USA Today) Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018 A partial solar eclipse occurrs over Antarctica and southern South...

very strong magnetic fields cause lower temperatures than the surrounding solar surface, although very high temperatures are often observed above sunspots...

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the Solar System, rising some 27 km above the Tharsis plain on Mars. At its summit is a complex caldera about 80...

of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the Sun through...

vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers. Photo of home made dobsonian used to make a solar projection (Split, Croatia)....

a massive supergiant star, which had a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses, possibly more if the star was especially metal-rich. Image of the...

physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum 1843 – Death of lyric poet Friedrich Hölderlin 1862 – Birth of...

American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, has the highest albedo recorded on Mercury? ...that Mt. Olympus Mons on Mars is the highest peak in the solar system?...

god of fire, was one of the nine Lords of the Night even though he was a solar deity? ... that the triadic pyramid complex was an early Maya architectural...

the universe, to the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System. Beginning with the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus...

was the first time astronomers had ever observed a collision between two Solar System objects. The impact of the cometary fragments created giant dark...

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) constantly monitors the Sun from the Lagrangian point between the Earth and the Sun. It has discovered hundreds...

the universe, to the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System. Beginning with the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus...

It rotates about its axis exactly 1.5 times in each orbit around the Sun, the only orbital resonance in the solar system with a value other than 1:1....

"wonderful year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics". After British solar eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed that light rays from distant stars...

1766) by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting a public lecture about a model Solar System, with a lamp—in place of the Sun—illuminating the faces of the audience...

spacecraft returned the first close-up images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, an extraterrestrial vortex that is the largest storm in the Solar System....

from the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas remaining from the formation of the Sun, which also formed the rest of the Solar System. Initially...

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted...

edit The heliospheric current sheet extends to the outer reaches of the Solar System, and results from the influence of the Sun's rotating magnetic field...

National Park Hurricane Gloria Geyser Geological history of Earth Geology of solar terrestrial planets Crater Lake Hurricane Lili Turquoise Tornado outbreak...

the Aten to the sun as compared to stars, and later official language avoids calling the Aten a god, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods....

scandals. 2010 - JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus...

celestial visitor in 1996. As astronomers awaited the entry into the inner Solar System of Comet Hale–Bopp, the comet discovered by Yuji Hyakutake raced...

and have a mass of less than half that of the Sun (down to about 0.075 solar masses, which are brown dwarfs) and a surface temperature of less than 4...

(85 ft) high and has a focalheight of 35 metres (115 ft). It is powered by solar unit and emits an alternating group of four white flashing repeated every...

before. 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon...

Science and Technology The circumnavigation attempt of Earth by the solar-powered Solar Impulse plane, currently in Hawaii, has been suspended for the rest...

Saturn's moon Titan and an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are among the Solar System features named after deities from Māori mythology? ... that the Local...

Planet Search Program has discovered five eccentric Jupiter-mass extra-solar planets since the program started gathering data in December 2002? ... that...

Great Red Spot, an extraterrestrial vortex that is the largest storm in the Solar System. 1995: Cyclone Bobby made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia...

engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center? Wikipedia:Recent additions NUMBER...

(US$570 million) to develop, failed 10 months into the mission after the solar panel malfunctioned? ... that the British breastwork monitors designed by...

was launched. It functioned for nearly a month, delivering information about cloud cover and temperature until a solar panel failure ended its mission....

from United Kingdom territory. (AFP via Hindustan Times) An X1.9-class solar flare erupts from an active sunspot while facing Earth causing temporary...

interpretation of Ra, his entire body, or just his eye. The symbols of Ra are the solar symbols of a golden disk or the symbol ⊙ (circle with a point at its centre)...

computerized statistical model of the Sun's solar cycle (a measurement of the number of sunspots and solar flares, in this case between 1976 and 2008,...

rural electrification of 3.5 million households by 2010? The 354 MW SEGS solar power plant (pictured) in the Mojave Desert is the world's largest? Known...

are bound together by gravity with typical masses ranging from 1014–1015 solar masses. MS 0735.6+7421 is a galaxy cluster located in the constellation...

technology Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 A total solar eclipse occurs in North America for the first time since 2017. It is the last total solar eclipse...

probably occurring at or above the sun's photosphere; it is a process called solar surface fusion. ... that the submarine telescope ANTARES, intended to detect...

protostellar phase is an early stage in the process of star formation. For a one solar-mass star it lasts about 100,000 years. It starts with a core of increased...

France, Japan and China). The satellite contains a single experiment to test solar cells. A tape recorder is also on board, which failed on 24 May 1973 after...

temperature of 735 K (462 °C; 863 °F), Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System. It has no carbon cycle to lock carbon back into rocks and surface...

coaches of the Mayiladuthurai–Coimbatore Jan Shatabdi Express was fitted with solar photovoltaic panels? ...that pioneering steam locomotive builder Matthias...

1856 - Birth of Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953) 1859 - A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service 1877 - Birth of Francis...

magnesium as essential components? ... that the newly discovered mineral krotite likely was one of the earliest minerals formed in the Solar System?...

(US$570 million) to develop, failed 10 months into the mission after the solar panel malfunctioned? ... that the British breastwork monitors designed by...

at launch of any spacecraft, at 58,000 kilometres per hour (36,000 mph). It was the first spacecraft launched directly into a solar escape trajectory....

Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. It is the largest of the Solar System's terrestrial planets and the only planetary body that modern science...

movable heads shaped like a pumpkin and a blue-colored skull? ... that solar panels provide part of the power for electric vehicle charging stations...

Energy-related design Electric vehicles Hybrid vehicles Low-energy building Solar design Scientific usage Heat transfer Thermodynamics Units of energy...

He was the first Greek astronomer to propose a heliocentric model of the Solar System, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe...

month, delivering information about cloud cover and temperature until a solar panel failure ended its mission. 1983: Hurricane Barry made landfall about...

origin and development of elements and their isotopes, primarily within the solar system. Urey, along with his student Stanley Miller, may be best remembered...

outer space. It shields the surface from most meteoroids and ultraviolet solar radiation, reduces diurnal temperature variation – the temperature extremes...

first Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, the first solar-powered aircraft capable of both day and night flight thanks to its batteries charged by solar power...

Sydney Morning Herald) The Swiss Solar Impulse project's solar powered plane remains aloft for 24 hours, a record for a solar powered craft. (AP via Fox News)...

giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.5–10 solar masses) in a late phase of stellar evolution. The outer atmosphere is inflated...

about 430 light-years from Earth and is a multiple star. α UMi A is a six solar massWieland page 3: masses of A and P ... (6.0+1.54M⊙) F7 bright giant (II)...

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less of power for durations too long for fuel cells, batteries and generators to provide economically, and in places where solar cells are not viable....

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the fourth most massive in the Solar System. In this photograph from 1986 the planet appears almost featureless...

Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day. 2017 – A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States. edit  January • February...

earth. Included in the definition is electricity and heat generated from solar, wind, ocean, hydropower, biomass, geothermal resources, and biofuels and...

Birth of Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932) 1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service 1865 - Death of William...

founder of Bengaluru. It is Karnataka's first fully solar powered airport, developed by CleanMax Solar. (Full article...) Archives • Read more... Credit:...

viewed through a small optical telescope, and is unrelated to planets of the solar system. They are a relatively short-lived phenomenon, lasting a few tens...

production will itself sharply reduce the cost of each windmill and each solar panel, while adding yet more incentives for additional research and development...

growth. Pernick and Wilder highlight eight major clean technology sectors: solar power, wind power, biofuels, green buildings, personal transportation, the...

The episode is set in the year 4000, the Daleks conspire to conquer the Solar System. Their scheme involves treachery at the highest levels, and a weapon...

Gabriel discussing the situation described in the song and witnessing a solar eclipse. The track earned awards such as a Lo Nuestro for Best Pop Song...

member of this cluster, R136a1, is currently the most massive known star, with an estimated 265 solar masses. Its discovery was announced on July 2010....

center? ... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun? ... that the 2009...

first Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, the first solar-powered aircraft capable of both day and night flight thanks to its batteries charged by solar power...

Philippine Department of Health declares a measles outbreak in Metro Manila. (Solar News)[permanent dead link] International relations Paraguay announces withdrawal...

cold? ... that with the Philippine Basketball Association's acceptance of Solar Sports' bid to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network...

launches Interstellar Boundary Explorer satellite that will study the edge of Solar System. (eFlux) Nine Chinese oil workers and two Sudanese drivers are kidnapped...

Authorities add a leap second on December 31 to bring UTC more inline with mean solar time. (Physics Org), (BBC) Month December 2016 Previous day December 30...

lorandite from the Allchar deposit is being used to determine the flux of solar neutrinos? ... that seamanite is known from only four locations, with three...

Arthur Eddington takes measurements of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse in an attempt to test Einstein's theory of relativity. 1972 - Death...

luminous stars known. For comparison, if the star were at the center of the Solar System its surface might extend out to between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter...

where they are believed to bring good fortune? ...that the first extra-solar planetary system was discovered by a Polish astronomer Aleksander Wolszczan...

emission of stored heat. They comprise roughly 6% of all known stars in the solar neighborhood The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized...

electricity generated than any other energy conversion system, apart from rooftop solar energy, and is compatible with grazing and crops." – Mark Diesendorf, in...

symbol of speed. Mercury is also the name of the innermost planet of the Solar System, which moves faster than any other and hence provides an image of...

of Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System. This image was created from black-and-white imagery from the USGS's...

of the overlying terrain? ... that the first transcontinental trip by a solar-powered vehicle was completed in 1983? ... that the short-lived Apple Network...

(Tribune Washington Bureau via MSN) Science and technology Solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 begins its circumnavigation of the earth. (BBC) Explorers...

founding member of De Stijl 1994: death by suicide of Luc Jouret, cult leader of the Order of the Solar Temple, followed by mass suicide of his followers...

engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center? ... that Stephen Fry asked on...

Eisenhower Doctrine. 2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and...

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properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as solar insolation, climate and geology, as well as the other organisms that share...

of years, changes in Earth's orbit affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by the Earth and influence long-term climate. Recently selected...

During the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, several teams of scientists attempted to verify Einstein's prediction of the bending of light around the sun...

total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave...

equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of our Sun (1010 solar masses), making it roughly 1/10 as massive as the Milky Way, and a diameter...

Pioneer 11 unmanned spacecraft, the first man-made objects to leave the Solar System. Made from gold-anodised aluminium, the plaque shows the figures...

MacDonald (computer programmer) Rémy Card Robert Love Rusty Russell Sage Sharp Sage Weil Solar Designer Stephen Tweedie Theodore Ts'o Valerie Aurora...

lift from the atmosphere to support itself). Also, there is an abrupt increase in atmospheric temperature and interaction with solar radiation (more...)...

light-years in diameter. The total mass of the Omega Nebula is an estimated 800 solar masses. An open cluster of 35 stars lies embedded in the nebulosity and...

ratios of xenon are an important tool for studying the early history of the Solar System. Xenon-135 is produced as a result of nuclear fission and acts as...

while transmitting visible light, converting windows on buildings into solar power generators? ... that Rose Gaffney, who successfully opposed construction...

June 4 780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China. 470 BC - Birth of Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC) 1704 - Birth of Benjamin...

World Trade Organization, accusing Indian laws of discriminating against US solar panel manufacturers. (Reuters) Law and crime The Garda Síochána Ombudsman...

Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. 2010 - The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80...

carry two payloads, a satellite laser ranging and a Lyman-alpha Imaging Solar Telescope? Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/March#27 March 2009, Numbered...

Mousing (United States) 1966 – Out and Out Rout (United States) 1967 – O-Solar Meow (United States) 2005 – The Prince of Tennis: Futari no Samurai (Japan)...

equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of our Sun (1010 solar masses), making it roughly 1/10 as massive as the Milky Way, and a diameter...

plant. In 2007, a Honda factory on the site began to produce non-silicon solar cells for homes and businesses, with a projected capacity roughly equivalent...

The Straits Times) Science and technology Solar cycle 25 An X-class solar flare, the second of the current solar cycle, erupts. An associated coronal mass...

charged with bank fraud. (AP via Chicago Sun-Times) Science The Solar Impulse, a solar plane, lands in Morocco, completing the world's first intercontinental...

Challenger launches on the STS-41-C mission to deploy the LDEF and repair the Solar Max satellite. 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2017 satellite. 1990...

when to activate, high performance exterior glass to reduce heat loss, and solar panels to generate electricity. Other features of the complex include conference...

small optical telescopes, and is otherwise unrelated to the planets of the solar system. They are a relatively short-lived phenomenon, lasting a few tens...

from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System, especially on rocky planets and moons. Intraplate volcanoes can...

of Afghanistan's parliament protest his release. (MSNBC), (BBC) A total solar eclipse may be observed from 08:36 GMT (09:36 BST) to 11:48 GMT (12:48 BST)...

ecosystems everywhere." "...the transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was...

infer the existence of a potential new planet (Planet Nine) in the outer Solar System. (Washington Post) Month January 2016 Previous day January 19 Next...

popular example. Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles, requiring generations of astronomical observations and...

 2007 (2007-10-30) (Tuesday) edit history watch An International Space Station solar wing relocated by the crew of STS-120 is torn during deployment. (spaceflightnow...

June 15 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1667 - The first human blood transfusion...

Tower Credit: Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam The Einstein Tower, a solar observatory in Potsdam Alte Nationalgalerie Credit: Manfred Brückels The...

viewed through a small optical telescope, and is unrelated to planets of the solar system. They are a relatively short-lived phenomenon, lasting a few tens...

region subject to violent contention in Sudan. (BBC) The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place over parts of Asia and the Pacific...

volcanic eruption? ...that Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, due to the tides exerted upon the satellite by Jupiter? Archive...

on Titan, a moon of Saturn, in the first successful landing in the outer Solar System 26 January 1949 – Hale Telescope, which introduced several innovations...

Science and technology NASA announces the Voyager 1 space probe has left the Solar System becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space. (BBC)...

the sun often shines on calm days with little wind, combining wind and solar can go a long way toward meeting demand, especially when geothermal provides...

constitute 10 percent of Brunei's population. (Catholic News Agency) Science A solar eclipse sweeps across Africa, Europe and the Eastern United States. (CTV)...

1899) 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption...

Isfahan for allegedly not wearing veils. (AFP via ABC Online) Science Partial solar eclipse visible over much of North America today. (timeanddate.com) Month...

Robinson is an IEEE Fellow and holds at least 39 patents in fields including solar energy devices and antenna systems. For his contributions, he was named...

small hydroelectricity generating capacity is in China? Charles Fritts developed the first solar cell in 1884, although its efficiency was less than 1%?...

Nariño, (Colombia). (from Decade Volcanoes) Image 30MLO transmission ratio - Solar radiation reduction due to volcanic eruptions (from Timeline of volcanism...

Wilson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate 1937 - The first total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years is visible in...

living organisms, the idea of common descent, the geological history of the Earth, the formation of the solar system and the origin of the universe....

The Tychonic system (or Tychonian system) is a model of the Solar System published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century, which combines what he saw...

Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-989 satellite. 1980 - A Delta 3910 launches the Solar Max satellite. 1984 - A Mu-3S launches the Ohzora satellite. 1987 - A Zenit-2...

of fossil fuels, land clearing, and agriculture. Other phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes have had smaller but non-negligible effects on global...

Music in space People associated with outer space Politics of outer space Solar System Space applications Space industry Space law Space photography and...

Magellan (spacecraft) Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory These images are composites of the complete radar image collection obtained by the Magellan...

renewable generation comes from onshore wind, hydropower, offshore wind, solar PV and biomass. Scotland exports much of this electricity. On 26 January...

The Exelon Pavilions are a set of four solar energy generating structures in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois...

counter-protesters. (AP via CBC News) Science and technology NASA launches the Parker Solar Probe, an unpiloted spacecraft designed to study the sun. (BBC) Month August...

first Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, the first solar-powered aircraft capable of both day and night flight thanks to its batteries charged by solar power...

Way) for 16 years, scientists estimate the object's mass at 4.31 million solar masses. (arΧiv.org) (MSNBC) Scientists say they have found evidence for...

Johanneshov, Stockholm; it later comes to represent the Sun in the Sweden Solar System. 1994 – At the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Sweden wins its first...

called solar activity, including sunspots on the surface of the Sun, solar flares, and variations in the solar wind that carry material through the solar system...

perform professional astronomy research, such as orbit determination of small Solar System bodies in the early 1900s and supernova surveys in the 1980s and...

in New Zealand, Gascoigne moved to Australia to work at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory at Mount Stromlo in Canberra. He became skillful in the design...

satellites, and the second-closest to its planet. Among the smallest of the Solar System's 19 known spherical moons (it ranks 14th among them in diameter)...

five known currently volcanically or cryovolcanically active worlds in the Solar System (the others being Earth, Venus, Saturn's moon Enceladus, and Neptune's...

1991 - The crew of Mir perform an EVA to install support equipment for solar arrays. 1993 - A Molniya-M launches an Oko missile defence satellite. 2005...

Nobel laureate (b. 1893) 2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and...

May 28 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce....

discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. Callisto...

photographs from the far side (Luna 3), and first soft landing on another solar system object (Luna 9). Luna 16 (and later missions) returned lunar soil...

The Exelon Pavilions are four buildings that generate electricity from solar energy and provide access to underground parking in Millennium Park in the...

edit  The Solar System consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 165 known moons, three...

Observations of the atmosphere are undertaken at the Mauna Loa Observatory, and of the Sun at the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, both located near its summit....

its closest approach to the Sun, during its second visit to the inner Solar System in the 20th century 1994 - Death of Howard Martin Temin, American...

all the necessary materials on the Moon and Near Earth Asteroids, that solar energy is readily available in very large quantities, and that no new scientific...

heliosphere 21 August 2017 – NASA.gov conducts a broadcast of the total solar eclipse with more than 50 million views of the live broadcast, and almost...

Apollo 8 Credit: William Anders Earthrise, the first occasion in which humans saw the Earth seemingly rising above the surface of the Moon, taken during...

sunlight on one side and the hidden nature of the other, and the nature of solar and lunar eclipses. His fu (rhapsody) and shi poetry were renowned in his...

(Politics Abroad)[permanent dead link] Science and technology A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. The most populous...

industry, Savage moved back to Nigeria and signed with Mavin Records in 2012. She made an appearance on the label's 2012 compilation album Solar Plexus....

mathematics, and astronomy. The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovas were made in China. Traditional Chinese Medicine...

upstaged the long-awaited Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System at the time, although Hyakutake was at its brightest for only a few...

Johannes Kepler by an unknown artist Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1600) Close-up of inner section of...

 • The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens  • Solar Impulse begins a cross-US flight, taking off from Moffett Field in Mountain...

from Earth. The ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other components. ISS components have been launched by American...

mathematics, and astronomy. The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovas were made in China. Traditional Chinese Medicine...

experiment Glenn T. Seaborg Emilio G. Segrè Henry DeWolf Smyth Smyth Report Solar energy Storm surge Surface tension Thin Man (nuclear bomb) Tropical cyclone...

introduction of non-motorized transport corridors in the city, installation of solar panels for power and vertical garden on every sixth metro pillar. Every...

Pluto is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified...

Hurricane Helene. (ABC News) Science and technology Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 The annular solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 is seen over much of Pacific...

Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888) 1989 - A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips...

shale reserves underneath approximately 60% of the country. The Baynouna Solar Power Plant, which will generate an estimated 3% of the country's power...

and later official language avoids calling the Aten a god, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods. Akhenaten tried to shift his culture from...

Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar System so far observed 2004 - Death of Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born...

2017, apparently results from a merger of two black holes of 19 and 31 solar masses. Such detections are said to be progressively moving this emerging...

launches the Express-AM44 and MD1 satellites. 2010 - An Atlas V launches the Solar Dynamics Observatory. 2013 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-18M spacecraft...

sends a detailed view of the shock wave that marks the thinning of the solar wind, the charged particles streaming from the sun, confirming that the...

The second Solar Impulse aircraft, N247PF (formerly HB-SIB), crashes into the Gulf of Mexico after a loss of power. 2013 – The first Solar Impulse aircraft...

experiment Glenn T. Seaborg Emilio G. Segrè Henry DeWolf Smyth Smyth Report Solar energy Storm surge Surface tension Thin Man (nuclear bomb) Tropical cyclone...

and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometers, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera that became one of the...

This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained...

of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus, which itself is a minor planet composed of rock, dust, and ices. Due to their origins in the outer solar system...

renewable generation comes from onshore wind, hydropower, offshore wind, solar PV and biomass. Scotland exports much of this electricity. On 26 January...

as a planet-like moon, it is the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and it is larger by volume than the...

abnormality" shortly before going dormant for the two-week-long lunar night. The solar-powered vehicle has been on the Moon since 15 December and had survived...

Ceres is the smallest identified dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one in the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 1 January 1801, by Giuseppe...

Santiago José Carrillo Solares (18 January 1915 – 18 September 2012) was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of...

launch a Molniya-3 satellite. 2005 - A Volna fails to launch the Cosmos 1 solar sail. 2006 - A Delta II launches three MiTEx satellites. 2009 - A Zenit-3SLB...

experiment Glenn T. Seaborg Emilio G. Segrè Henry DeWolf Smyth Smyth Report Solar energy Storm surge Surface tension Thin Man (nuclear bomb) Tropical cyclone...

Johannes Kepler by an unknown artist Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1600) Close-up of inner section of...

discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. It is...

marriage. (Washington Post) (CBS News) (The Local) Science The biggest solar flare in five years that occurred on March 6 nears Earth with the capacity...

spikes project from the envelope, which in electron micrographs resemble the solar corona, from which their name derives. Infectious bronchitis virus was isolated...

Earth) Image 29A depiction of the early Solar System's protoplanetary disk from which Earth and other Solar System bodies were formed (from Earth) Image...

generate energy. Stars below about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun (or 1.5 solar masses) primarily fuse hydrogen atoms together in a series of stages to...

Mexico–United States wall United States President Donald Trump plans on adding solar panels to his proposed border wall with Mexico. (The Washington Post) (BBC)...

Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. It ranges in brightness from about −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude...

ancient lakes List of prehistoric lakes List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System Limnology Lake ecosystem Lake stratification Ancient lake Former...

This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained...

World) (Peoples Dispatch) Science and technology Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025 A partial solar eclipse with an eclipse magnitude of 0.855 is visible...

is the largest of the moons of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the...

discovery of trans-Neptunian object 2018 VG18, the most distant object in the Solar System ever observed at a distance of ~120 AU. (Space.com) Month December...

undertaken at the Mauna Loa Observatory, and of the Sun at the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, both located near its summit. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park...

kilometer asteroid, is announced as possibly the fourth most distant known Solar System object from the Sun at nearly 90 (±10) times Earth's distance from...

of the leaders of Islamist militant group Ansar al-Sunna. (CNN) Japan's Solar-B mission is launched from the Uchinoura Space Center. With its successful...

post of acting governor. (TASS) Science and technology Solar eclipse of April 20, 2023 A hybrid solar eclipse occurs across the South Pacific in Australia...

States. (ABC) The Al Dhafra solar farm, the largest solar farm in the world, comes online in the United Arab Emirates. The solar farm is expected to power...

by solar power. 20 January: The California Institute of Technology publishes evidence that supports the existence of a true ninth planet of the Solar System...

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter, and the third largest by mass...

Earth's only permanent natural satellite and the fifth largest moon in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon...

of a croissant. Its surface is one of the most heavily cratered in the Solar System, featuring a wide variety of crater sizes and ages. Ida's moon, Dactyl...

emission of stored heat. They comprise roughly 6% of all known stars in the solar neighborhood. The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized...

launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory. After a brief encounter with asteroid 132524 APL, New...

and later official language avoids calling the Aten a god, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods. Akhenaten tried to bring about a departure...

company valued at $35 billion. (Reuters) Tesla announces plans to acquire Solar City in a $2.6 billion deal. (Reuters via CNBC) Law and crime The Malaysian...

(The Chicago Sun Times), (CBS) Science and technology Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to travel around the world without fuel...

of a croissant. Its surface is one of the most heavily cratered in the Solar System, featuring a wide variety of crater sizes and ages. Ida's moon, Dactyl...

detected helium as an unknown yellow spectral line signature in light from a solar eclipse. (The word helium comes from ancient Greek ἥλιος which is, surprisingly...

during relatively temporary periods, during which they are passing the Solar System at a much closer distance than Canopus. About 90,000 years ago, Sirius...

more than a trillion solar neutrinos pass through it every second? Support - Because it's really cool! The article mentions the solar neutrino flux at the...

invest tens of millions of dollars on renewable energy research, including solar thermal power, wind power and geothermal power. (InfoWorld) Ford Motor Company...

satellites, and the second-closest to its planet. Among the smallest of the Solar System's 19 known spherical moons (it ranks 14th among them in diameter)...