Article: solar system

Article: A place for the sun; exploring the solar neighborhood. ...
Science News;  April 20, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... making a movie about the sun's neighborhood, the ... close-up of the outer solar system. Here, the wind of ... blowing out from the sun runs head-on into the ... who has studied the solar system's environs for more ... years. Exploring the sun's surroundings, she ...

Article: A Distant Solar System Has Five Planets; Find Means ...
The Washington Post;  November 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... orbiting a distant sun, marking the first time that another solar system with that many circling ... unlike those in our solar system in terms of their ... distance from the sun, the fact that ... planets circling their sun, with a few cases ... three and four in a solar ...

Article: Solar System Akin to Earth's Is Discovered; ...
The Washington Post;  June 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... discovered another solar system that at least in ... wheeling around their suns at relatively large ... circling their suns at extremely close ... evidence Earth's solar system is not somehow unique ... farther from the sun whose gravitational ...

Article: Strange But True: Longest shadow surprises the Sun ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... images were not of the Sun but of the skies around it. The Sun's rays illuminate ... sparsely scatter the solar system and create an ultraviolet ... millions of miles of the solar system being plunged into ... large skated past the sun. It was the longest ...

Article: Comet dust changes ideas about start of Solar ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  December 15, 2006 ;     653 words ... ... appear to predate the sun. Speaking Thursday ... mixing in the early solar system to send material from the proto-sun out into deep space ... conditions during the sun's infancy. Until ... the fringes of the solar system. But the Stardust ...

Article: Planet's orbit similar to those in our solar ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  June 14, 2002 ;     664 words ... ... resembles a member of our solar system. Geoffrey Marcy ... Jupiter circling a sun-like star at an ... like that of the solar system's biggest planet ... similarities to our own solar system," Marcy said Thursday ... the Earth and the sun, about 93 million ...

Article: Astronomers confirm existence of a 10th planet at the outer ...
The Sunday Herald;  July 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... farthest reaches of the solar system that they say should ... planet to orbit our sun. The discovery ... object found in the solar system since Neptune was ... distance from the Sun as Pluto, it would ... material that formed the solar system. The discovery of ...