Wszechświat/Planety

Illustration of a sungrazing comet. These are comets that pass very close to the Sun at perihelion. Sometimes they can skirt above the photosphere at...

Illustration of the Earth, Moon and Sun showing a passing comet. Cities are seen glistening, defining the edges of the Earth's continents. Comets are...

Illustration of a view of Pluto seen from the surface of its largest moon Charon. Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, they keep the same face...

Illustration of the Earth and Moon showing a large proportion of the planet in darkness. Cities are seen glistening, defining the edges of the contine...

Water in Trappist-1 system, illustration. Trappist-1 is a red-dwarf star – the most common variety – located some 40 light-years away in Aquarius. In...

Illustration of a Voyager probe at the Oort cloud. The two Voyager probes were launched in late 1970s. Voyager 1 has now passed into interstellar spac...

Illustration of a free-floating planet in front of a lenticular galaxy. These planets are odd in that, unlike most extrasolar objects, they do not see...

Illustration of a sungrazing comet. These are comets that pass very close to the Sun at perihelion. Sometimes they can skirt above the photosphere at...

Illustration of the Universe's first generations of stars. Scientists estimate that the first stars began to shine when the Universe was just 180 mill...

Conceptual illustration of a space station, terminal or habitat in Earth orbit in the future. People are seen pointing outside, and one of them is usi...

Illustration of a free-floating planet. These planets are odd in that, unlike most extrasolar objects, they do not seem to be in orbit around a star -...

Illustration of a free-floating planet. These planets are odd in that, unlike most extrasolar objects, they do not seem to be in orbit around a star -...

Illustration of a comet passing the innermost planet, Mercury, and approaching the Sun.

The Earth seen from space, illustration.

The Earth and Moon seen from space, illustration.

Illustration of the Earth, Moon and Sun showing a passing comet. Cities are seen glistening, defining the edges of the Earth's continents. Comets are...

Uranus seen from Titania, illustration. From the night-time surface of Titania, the crescent discs of Uranus and its three innermost large moons glow...

World map showing connections, illustration.

Holographic circles, illustration.

Holographic circles, illustration.

Green and blue circles, illustration.

Green circles, illustration.

Planet earth with circles, illustration.

Blue planet earth with circles, illustration.

Blue planet earth with circles, illustration.

Diagram showing the interior of the terrestrial planet Mars. The outermost layer is the crust, which is about 30 miles (50 km) deep on average - quite...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the ice giant planet Neptune. It probably looks very similar to the interior of Uranus. At the very centre...

Computer artwork comparing the size of Mars (left) with that of the Earth. Mars' diameter is 53% that of the Earth's. It has ten percent the mass of E...

Image comparing the size of Earth with its single Moon. The Moon is 27% the size of its parent, which it orbits once every 27.3 days. Despite its dimi...

Diagram showing the interior of the Sun. The solar interior is composed of a core (central 30%) a radiative zone outside this, and then a convective l...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the gas giant planet Saturn At the centre there is probably a rocky and icy core several times the mass of...

Image comparing the size of Earth (right) with the planet Mercury. It is the closest planet to the Sun, with an average distance from it of 0.39 times...

Image comparing the size of Earth (left) with the planet Neptune. Neptune is the farthest planet from the Sun, with an average distance from it of 29....

Diagram showing the interior of the terrestrial planet Mars. The outermost layer is the crust, which is about 30 miles (50 km) deep on average - quite...

Image comparing the size of Earth (right) with the planet Venus. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, with an average distance from it of 0.72 tim...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the gas giant planet Jupiter. At the centre there is probably a rocky and icy core several times the mass...

Image comparing the size of Earth (left) with the planet Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, with an average distance from it of 19.2 t...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the gas giant planet Saturn At the centre there is probably a rocky and icy core several times the mass of...

Image comparing the size of Earth (right) with the planet Venus. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, with an average distance from it of 0.72 tim...

Diagram showing the interior of the Earth's Moon. The outermost layer, the crust, is about 45 miles (70 km) thick. This is thicker than the Earth's cr...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the ice giant planet Uranus. It probably looks very similar to the interior of Neptune. At the very centre...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the ice giant planet Uranus. It probably looks very similar to the interior of Neptune. At the very centre...

Image comparing the size of Earth (left) with the planet Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, with an average distance from it of 5.2 ti...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the gas giant planet Jupiter. At the centre there is probably a rocky and icy core several times the mass...

Diagram showing the theoretical interior of the gas giant planet Saturn At the centre there is probably a rocky and icy core several times the mass of...

Computer artwork comparing the size of Mars (left) with that of the Earth. Mars' diameter is 53% that of the Earth's. It has ten percent the mass of E...

Image comparing the size of Earth (left) with the planet Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, with an average distance from it of 5.2 ti...

Image comparing the size of Earth (left) with the planet Saturn. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, with an average distance from it of 9.4 time...

Formation of moons around a gas giant. This is how the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and possibly Uranus, are thought to have formed. The planet is in...

The Sun as a red giant. Earth begins to melt as the red-giant Sun swells and approaches our planet's orbit. Eventually the melting may penetrate throu...