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"Houston Space Center Is Named for Johnson". The New York Times. p. 19. Nixon, Richard M. (February 19, 1973). "50 – Statement About Signing a Bill Designating the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center"
It was the fastest spacecraft when leaving Earth and will be the fifth probe to leave the Solar System. Launched: 19 January 2006; Destination: Pluto and Charon; Arrival: 14 July 2015; Left Charon: 14 July 2015; Institution: NASA; Voyager 1. Mission: investigating Jupiter and Saturn, and the moons of these planets.
This July 7, 2023, photo of Saturn was made with the author's telescope. Saturn's largest moon Titan appears to the upper left of Saturn. Saturn will be one of the evening sky objects to be ...
The location of the celestial poles of some selected Solar System objects is shown in the following table. [1] The coordinates are given relative to Earth's celestial equator and the vernal equinox as they existed at J2000 (2000 January 1 12:00:00 TT ) which is a plane fixed in inertial space now called the International Celestial Reference ...
Get your telescope ready in September, when Saturn will take center stage in the sky and shine brighter than at any other point in the year. The planet will reach opposition on Sept. 21, around ...
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant , with an average radius of about nine times that of Earth . [ 27 ] [ 28 ] It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive.
As of 2022, the precise location of the Solar System in the clouds is an open question in astronomy. [259] Within 10 light-years of the Sun there are relatively few stars, the closest being the triple star system Alpha Centauri, which is about 4.4 light-years away and may be in the Local Bubble's G-Cloud. [260]