The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on the same scale of 1 to 10 billion. That is, the real objects and distances are 10 billion ...

Gregg, a Ph.D. candidate in physics and astronomy, developed a computer model to study our solar system, Alpha Centauri and the interstellar activity—the movement of gas, dust and other space ...

I came across an interactive NASA tool called Solar System Simulator. On it, you can view objects in our solar system from different viewpoints and moments in time. Fill out each drop down menu ...

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The Astronomical Journal (submitted to arXiv) , 2025 DOI: 10.3847 ...

This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. ... The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system, containing 99.8% of the solar system's mass.

Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could be lurking in the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood ...

A new type of computer simulation predicts that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the solar system over the course of the coming ...

If our Solar System seems stable, it’s because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

Our solar system is made up of the sun and all the amazing objects that travel around it. Learn more about the planets, asteroids, and comets in our solar system. 3:55 ...

The faraway object travels in a weird, wide orbit A newly discovered object called 2017 OF201, likely a dwarf planet, travels in an extremely wide elliptical orbit (yellow), a new study suggests.

At an epic timescale "comparable to the age of the solar system," which is 4.6 billion years old, the researchers believe that the spiral arms formed when "small bodies" were pushed out of the ...

It applies assumptions on how Rubin Observatory sees and detects astronomical sources in its images with the best model of what the solar system and its small body reservoirs look like today.