Tag Archives: neptune
New Horizons Confirms Methane on Pluto with Ralph
Hubble Space Telescope Spots The Behemoth
First Pluto Color Image released by New Horizons
ExoPlanet Covered With Clouds Detected in Outer Space
WristRevolution to Launch at CES 2014
Has Voyager 1 Spacecraft left Solar System or Not?
NASA and SETI discover new Neptunian moon, spot what Voyager 2 missed
A baker's dozen worth of moons might already sound like too many for us Earthlings, but Neptune has just had its count bumped to 14. Though the extra luna appeared as a white dot in over 150 photos taken by NASA's Hubble telescope between 2004 and 2009, it took SETI's Mark Showalter to discover it after poring over images of faint rings around the planet. Dubbed S/2004 N 1, the satellite is no more than 12 miles across and completes its orbit every 23 hours. Hoping to spot it in the night sky? You're better off hitting the second source link for more pictures, as it's 100 million times dimmer than the faintest star viewable with the naked eye, and it escaped Voyager 2, to boot.
[Image credit: NASA, ESA and A. Feild (STScI)]
Source: NASA, HubbleSite
Solar System INSIDE a Cake
Cake….the final frontier. Check out this delectably sweet solar system cake from Gonzuela’s Cakes (Gonzuela Bastarache). Unlike a typical cake, this one has the decorations INSIDE the cake. That’s actually a twice baked cake and Gonzuela says it’s easy to make and then gives instructions on how to do it that don’t look easy or simple at all. To her credit she did go all old school on it and included Pluto as one of the planets. Now kids, no need to fight over who gets to eat Uranus, there’s enough for everyone. Sweet.