DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

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Imagine setting off on a road trip that doesn’t just take you through charming towns, but through an entire solar system – ...

This study challenges traditional models of solar system formation, which predict that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune should have nearly circular and flat orbits. The research suggests that ...

A British-Swedish research team has reviewed all models for designing and simulating solar-powered heat pumps systems of ...

Researchers at the University of Isfahan in Iran claim to have improved the precision of digital elevation models (DEMs) in creating high-resolution annual solar energy potential maps. DEMs are 3D ...

ESO/L. Calçada The asteroid's orbit (red) is highly eccentric, suggesting it has been disturbed One model of Solar System formation, known as the grand tack, proposes that the early Solar System ...

"Our work made significant progress in understanding the hydrodynamic responses of a novel offshore floating photovoltaic ...

A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems ...