Category: planet

Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Captures Venus Glare

This is the moment Solar Orbiter passed Venus earlier this month. The images show a dark area of the planet that is hidden from the Sun and a bright crescent of light—glare from Venus’s incredibly bright sunlit side. The footage was filmed by the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager, SoloHI, as the spacecraft made its second…


Astronomers Discover That Stars and Planets May Form and Evolve as Siblings

A radio telescope has found evidence that planets might form at the same time as their stars, instead of much later as was previously thought. The telescope detected dark rings in the disk around a nascent star system. The rings could be the first evidence that a star and its planets are forming and evolving…