With the advancement of technology, scientists have discovered more than 100 billion exoplanets beyond our solar system. Some are extreme hell holes, while others are frigid snow worlds . V101 Science takes a look at some of these celestial wonders that will blow your mind.
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Filmmaker Wylie Overstreet and a group of friends built the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits on a dry lake bed in Nevada.
“Every picture of the solar system that we ever encounter is not to scale,” Overstreet says. “If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper, the planets become microscopic. The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one.”
So they did, in Black Rock Desert, northern Nevada. Overstreet says that to create a scale model with a small marble depicting Earth, the group needed seven miles of complete empty space. Follow their project on this edition of To Scale.
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Science tells us there are only eight planets in our solar system. But will advanced technology and improved telescopes prove us wrong?
“According to at least two teams of researchers, there might be a few planet-sized worlds lurking out beyond Neptune,” says host Hank Green. Some scientists theorize there is a planet at least 10 times the size of Earth out there quietly orbiting the sun. Green explains in this edition of SciShow.
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Every time you get upset about something insignificant, just sit back and think of our home–our Earth, our solar system, our universe, our Milky Way Galaxy. But that’s not where it ends. In the following 209 seconds that will make you question your existence, Buzz Feed Blue takes a mesmerizing look at our universe and beyond.
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With all the 3-D space in the great beyond, why is our solar system, other star systems and galaxies flat? “The answer has to do with two things,” says Henry Reich of Minute Physics. “Collisions and the fact that we live in three dimensions.” Reich explains.
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Using NASA’s IBEX spacecraft, scientists have captured their first glimpse of our solar system’s heliotail.
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