Courthouse News Service

Faraway solar system challenges theories of how planets form

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Model planets to go on display in city arts trail

Planet locations include Jewry Wall, Leicester Cathedral, Haymarket Shopping Centre, Phoenix, Curve, and Leicester Museum & Art Gallery. The trail launches with a public community celebration on 30 ...
WBUR

Maine Solar System Model adds dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...
WABI-TV

Maine’s Solar System Model expands

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

It’s official—scientists have discovered a solar system that shouldn’t exist, forcing us to rethink how our own solar system was born—it breaks the basic rules

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...
insider.si.edu

Planet Walk: University of Delaware Scale Model Solar System, (sculpture)

A scale model of the solar system, with each planet depicted in relief on individual square granite markers installed atop concrete bases embedded in the ground. Each planet bears a laser etched ...