The Resistance is trying to make a quick getaway before the First Order arrives. Then—boom! It's too late. They're already here—two Star Destroyers just arrived near the planet in space. This is the ...

Elongation is the angle, in degrees, between the Sun and the planet as seen from here on the Earth. Superior planets (those that lie further from the Sun than us: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

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All three of these astronomical alignments provide astronomers with opportunities to study our solar system and galaxy. And, all three involve shadows! What’s the difference between the three, you ask ...

THE existence of a source in the Crab Nebula with an angular diameter of less than 1 sec of arc has been revealed by observations of interplanetary scintillation at a frequency of 38 Mc/s (ref. 1).