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... just two feet in diameter, with four "sweptback" antennas. Inmarsat 4, a more recent communications satellite, weighs 100 times more, has a width of 150 feet with its solar cells extended, and is as tall as a house.
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Answer provided by Derek Webber
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... , which is pretty big—a modern jetliner takes nearly two days to fly around it. But an astronaut gets around it in only an hour and a half. There are bigger planets such ... slightly flattened at the poles, so there is a difference of 25 miles in the diameter at the equator, and at the poles.
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... you look at it. It is about 100,000 light years across. That's really big. Our solar system orbits the galaxy, similar to the way the Earth orbits the Sun ... so big that we have only completed one orbit—called a galactic year— since dinosaurs first appeared 220 million years ago. The Milky Way has around 400 billion stars in it
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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The largest asteroids are a few hundred miles across. From there they go down to about the size of rocks that we find here on Earth—and everything in between.
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Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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The Earth's atmosphere covers the entire surface of the planet and extends upward with increasingly lower density. There are a few atoms of the Earth's atmosphere extending to the Moon's orbit.
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Answer provided by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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... 's and a planetary volume of over 1300 times that of Earth's. While Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, scientists have recently discovered planets in other solar systems that are even bigger
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Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno
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... , Spirit and Opportunity that are each only 400 pounds, it is easy to see which are the biggest. CanadArm 2, on the ISS, is still the largest in mass and length, at 3,530 pounds and 56 ... American rover Sojourner, launched to Mars in 1997. It weighed only 23 pounds.
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Answer provided by CAF Capt. Marc Fricker
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Supernovae are the explosions of stars that have reached the ends of their lifetimes. Temperatures in the cores of the exploding stars can reach temperatures of around 1,800,000,000& ... dozens of them every year, mostly in other galaxies. A famous supernova, referred to as Supernova 1987A, occurred in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way in 1987 and astronomers continue to observe its aftereffects ...
... in the solar system, to learn about how and when our Sun and planets were created. Some of these meteorites are 4.6 billion years old According to current theories, Uranus and all of the planets in our solar system are slightly ...
Some stars are close and some are very far away, from a few light years to many thousands of light years. The ... light years away.
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Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
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