Guide to Space
How Far is Uranus from the Sun?
Uranus' distance from the Sun is 2.88 billion km. The exact number is 2,876,679,082 km. Want that number in miles?…
How Far is Saturn from the Sun?
Saturn's distance from the Sun is 1.4 billion km. The exact number for Saturn's average distance from the Sun is…
How Long Does it Take Uranus to Orbit the Sun?
[/caption] Uranus orbits the Sun much further than the Earth, and so it takes much longer to orbit the Sun.…
How Long Does it Take Mercury to Orbit the Sun?
[/caption] Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and so it's the fastest to orbit the Sun. In fact,…
How Long Does it Take Pluto to Orbit the Sun?
[/caption] Because Pluto orbits much further from the Sun than Earth, it takes much longer to orbit the Sun. In…
How Long Does it Take Neptune to Orbit the Sun
[/caption] Neptune orbits much further away from the Sun than the Earth, so its orbit takes much longer. In fact,…
What is a Subduction Zone?
IF you don’t know anything about plate tectonics you might be wondering about what is a subduction zone. A subduction…
Geomagnetic Reversal
[/caption] Geomagnetic reversal is when the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field becomes reversed. Thus, magnetic north and south switch…
2003 ub313
[/caption] In 2003, a celestial object was discovered, but little did astronomers know that this object, which was designated 2003ub313,…
Satellite Map
[/caption] There are thousands of satellites overhead in space right now, and many of them are being used to map…