Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far, ahead is all her seamen know. —Arthur Hugh Clough Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough’s seamen.
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How astronomers measure distance without travelling anywhere
It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...
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South Korean-European networks first to measure solo planet's distance, mass
A "solo planet" drifting through space approximately 10,000 light-years from Earth has been jointly detected by South Korean and European observation networks, marking the first time its exact ...
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For First Time, The Mass And Distance Of A Solitary “Rogue” Planet Has Been Measured
The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...
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