In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration
The Sun is located in the Milky Way galaxy in a spiral arm called the Orion Spur that extends outward from the Sagittarius arm.
least twice as much mass in the Milky Way galactic disk as can be accounted for by adding up the mass of all stars and interstellar clouds. While the solar system does not have any detectable evidence for dark matter, our galaxy is composed of perhaps 90% dark matter.
In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration
The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and ...
10 Things, Dec. 4: Awe-Inspiring Jupiter Images Not to Be Missed
Dec 4, 2017 · NASA's Juno mission has been exploring Jupiter since July 2016 with a special passenger on board: JunoCam, an instrument designed to take spectacular close-up color images of the largest planet in our solar system.
Beyond Our Solar System. Our Sun is one of over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, and our galaxy is just one of countless billions in the universe, each having millions – or billions – of stars of their own.
Stardust | JPL | NASA - NASA Solar System Exploration
After a few months of foggy vision, NASA's Stardust mission team has improved the spacecraft's navigation-camera resolution to nearly normal, just as Stardust is preparing to make a close flyby of the Earth on Monday.
Psyche Raw Images – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jul 11, 2024 · Psyche Raw Images. This gallery contains the full record of the Psyche spacecraft's raw images. Currently, the spacecraft is on its way to its destination, asteroid Psyche.
Genesis: Search for Origins | Mission | JPL | NASA - NASA Solar …
The purpose of the Genesis mission is to observe the solar wind, entrap its particles and return them to Earth. After launch, the spacecraft traveled to a point about 1.5 million kilometers (just under 1 million miles) from Earth where the gravities of Earth and the Sun are balanced: the Lagrange 1 point, or "L1."
Cassini and Telescope See Violent Saturn Storm
May 18, 2011 · NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere that is so powerful it stretches around the entire planet.
Stardust | JPL | NASA
Jan 11, 2001 · NASA's STARDUST Mission, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was launched February 1999 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. STARDUST is the fourth Discovery mission and will be the first United States sample return mission beyond the Mars orbit. STARDUST's objective will be to fly through the coma of P/Wild 2 and ...