الوسم: Primordial
Arrokoth And The Many Mysteries Of The Primordial Sky
[ad_1] There is a distant, dim domain of everlasting twilight in our Solar System’s outer limits, where our Sun can glow gently with only a faint, feeble fire. This faraway region is named the Kuiper belt, and it is the home of the dwarf planet Pluto, its large frigid moon, Charon, and a multitude of…
Jupiter’s Clean Sweep Of The Primordial Solar System
[ad_1] Jupiter, the “King of Planets,” was named for the king of the gods in ancient Roman mythology. A magnificent, enormous gas-giant world, this fifth planet from our Star is more than twice as massive as all of the other seven major planets in our Solar System combined! Indeed, Jupiter’s hefty weight is 318 times…
A Doomed Primordial Planet Brought Life To Earth
[ad_1] Our Moon is the largest object in Earth’s night sky, brightly gleaming as it reflects the light of our Star. But how did Earth’s lovely and bewitching Moon come to be? The most widely accepted theory of lunar formation proposes that our Moon was born when a Mars-sized primordial protoplanet, named Theia, crashed into…
