solar system

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To visualize this density, imagine placing the solar system inside a cube one light-year on each side.

From Science Daily

As the solar system moves through the universe, this motion produces a subtle "headwind": slightly more radio galaxies appear in the direction of travel.

From Science Daily

They are extremely distant from Earth, yet can glimmer as bright as a trillion stars while clustering into a space as small as our solar system — that's an extremely concentrated level of energy.

From Salon

Now we are closer than ever to working out where they came from, which could help us understand more about how our solar system and its myriad of planets, moons and asteroids came to be.

From Scientific American

Its targets include Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.

From Seattle Times