Titan is a moon of Saturn. It is the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and an atmosphere, and the only one with bodies of liquid on its surface. The liquid is probably methane and ethane.
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Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Length of a light-year
A light-year is approximately 5.8 trillion miles (or 9 trillion kilometers, if you are a scientist, or 9 trillion kilometres, if you are a British scientist).
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Moon's diameter
The moon is approximately 283,000 miles, or thirty Earth diameters, away from Earth. If the Earth were a basketball, the Moon would be a tennis ball, a little less than a quarter the diameter.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Thursday, September 8, 2005
Friday, August 19, 2005
Ole Romer, a 17th century Danish astronomer, is believed to be the first to make quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
Thursday, July 7, 2005
Dark energy, sometimes called dark force, is the hypothetical impetus behind the ever-increasing expansion of the universe.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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