11x1 Stars & Planets by Mr.Wilkins https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh Images and Facts about the Stars, Planets and Our Solar System. en-us 2018-01-26 14:32:22 UTC 2025-10-25 19:44:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png Pluto's Surface MrWilkins https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315104134 This real image was taken by the New Horizon space probe in 2015. It shows the icy surface of Pluto, a dwarf planet. The rough 'mountains' and smooth 'seas' suggest that over time the surface ice has been moving.]]> 2018-12-17 10:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315104134 Perspective MrWilkins https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315110722 I also l love this image. Along side a shot of the two rising moon's of Mars you can see Earth. Without the clue of the red sand in the image you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a view of early morning Venus from Earth...]]> 2018-12-17 11:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315110722 Neptune https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315247964 This photo of Neptune is showing two spinning hurricanes. The photo was taken by Voyager 2 in 1989. There are white clouds in between the dark spots, which were nicknamed ‘The Scooter’ by NASA. The storms are thought to be swirling masses of gases, similar to hurricanes on Earth. ]]> 2018-12-17 16:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315247964 Milky Way https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315309620

This fabulous image from NASA shows the stars that swirl at the centre of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Clouds of dust normally block the view from Earth to the galaxy’s centre, but by using an infra red camera the photographer was able to reveal parts of the spectrum that are usually invisible


]]> 2018-12-17 19:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315309620 Jupiter 14jodiecoulson https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315469761 This is an image taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it soared directly over Jupiter's south pole.  Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter.  On December 16, 2017, Juno successfully made its tenth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops.  
At the time of the closest approach, Juno was about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) above the planet’s atmosphere.


]]> 2018-12-18 11:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315469761 NGC 6744 https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315470126 This is a picture of a distant galaxy called NGC 6744, which astronomers belive, could be a twin of our galaxy, The Milky Way. The pinwheel is 30 million light years away in the southern constellation of Pavo. NGC 6744 has a distorted companion galaxy called NGC 6744A, which is reminiscent of one of the Milky Way's neighbouring Magelanic Clouds. The main difference between NGC 6744 and The Milky Way is their sizes. Our galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years across, our "twin" galaxy extends to almost twice that diameter. It is one of the largest and nearest spiral galaxies to Earth. ]]> 2018-12-18 11:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315470126 Neptune https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315579131 Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It was found on the 23rd of September 1846 by Johann Galle and Urbain Le Verrier.]]> 2018-12-18 16:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315579131 Interstellar Space 14ffionevans https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315599652 This image shows how NASA’s Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space which is way outside our solar system. We are in the Milky Way galaxy, and interstellar space is uncharted waters, no human has ever ventured outside. This is because as humans, there is not enough technology to do this. Interstellar medium (ISM) is the space in the galaxy and everything in that galaxy is labelled the interstellar medium. Outside the heliosphere, there is no ‘solar wind’ and it cannot be inflated by the suns’ plasma. This shows the difference between our solar system and all the space around it. I find this image interesting as it distinctively shows the scale of the universe and how there are different layers which consist of different things with a variety of conditions. 
— Ffion E]]> 2018-12-18 16:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315599652 Abell 370 Galaxy Cluster https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315605334 This is an image of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster taken by the Hubble Telescope. This galaxy cluster is about 4 lightyears  away from the earth and is located in the constellation Cetus. It’s core is also made up of several hundred galaxies. I like this image because you can see whole galaxies very clearly even though they are extremely far away. I also find it interesting how the Hubble Telescope was able to capture this image or give scientists an idea of what other galaxies look like. ]]> 2018-12-18 17:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315605334 The Scorched World (Kepler-10b) https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315625816 Kepler-10b is the smallest exoplanet discovered to date and scientists believe that the surface is covered by oceans of lava. It was also the first rocky planet found outside of our solar system and can reach temperatures of 1,400 degrees Celsius. Because of this the rocks melt causing large lava oceans on its surface. It’s high density makes scientists believe that the planet contains a large amount of iron, which would cause the lava to appear a brighter shade of red. I picked this as I think it’s mad how something like this can actually exist. ]]> 2018-12-18 17:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315625816 Saturn https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315637418 Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar system, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but with its larger volume Saturn is over 95 times more massive.]]> 2018-12-18 18:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315637418 Saturn's Festive Moons https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315682497 Together in this trick of perspective, Saturn's icy moons Dione and Rhea look like a snowman. This newly released photo was captured by NASA's late Cassini spacecraft in July 2010. Cassini spend over 13 years learning about the ringed planet and its system until the mission ended last year.]]> 2018-12-18 19:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315682497 Mars https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315695000 Mars is the fourth planet in our solar system and is known as the “Red Planet”. It is the second smallest planet after Mercury having an approximate radius of 3,390 km. Mars also has 2 moons called Phobos and Deimos. ]]> 2018-12-18 20:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315695000 Titan https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315707681 Experiments have shown that with the addition of UV radiation, polymers such as tholins and other complex organic molecules can be created from Titan’s atmosphere. In fact, the building blocks of DNA and RNA as well as several proteins and amino acids have been produced when energy was applied to a cocktail of gases similar to those in Titan’s atmosphere.]]> 2018-12-18 21:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315707681 https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315709908 This picture shows Saturn’s different layers in colours]]> 2018-12-18 21:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315709908 https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315732112 Cybertron is a fictional planet, the homeworld of the Transformers in the various fictional incarnations of the metaseries and toyline by Hasbro. In the Japanese series, the planet is referred to as "Cybertron" pronounced as Sabertron セイバートロン Seibātoron]]> 2018-12-18 23:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315732112 Venus https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315775656 Venus is the second planet from the Sun.Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System, with a mean surface temperature of 735 K (462 °C), even though Mercury is closer to the Sun. It is similar to Earth in size and mass, and is often described as Earth's "sister" or "twin".It has the longest rotation period (243 days) of any planet in the Solar System and rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets]]> 2018-12-19 07:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315775656 Super Earth https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315785877
A super-Earth is an extrasolar planet with a mass higher than Earth's, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, which are 15 and 17 times Earth's, respectively.]]> 2018-12-19 08:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315785877 Albireo https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315788703 Albireo (also known as beta-cygni) is actually a triple star system. Through a telescope though, it appears as a particularly beautiful visual binary — a bright yellowish star with a fainter blue companion. In 1976, astronomers at Kitt Peak discovered that the bright yellow star is actually a spectroscopic binary.
The two visual stars are around 380 light years away, and a huge 35 arcseconds apart. In other words, that fainter blue star (a fast rotating Be-class star) would take over 100,000 years to complete one orbit of the central binary — assuming it’s even part of the system.
-Jaiden]]> 2018-12-19 08:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315788703 Oort Cloud https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315791158 The Oort Cloud,named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort,sometimes called Öpik-Oort cloud,is a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals propesed to surround the sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU! 
This image of the Oort Cloud shows the icy objects that exist in the outermost reaches of the solar system. ]]> 2018-12-19 08:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315791158 Mimas https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315792577 Mimas, a moon of saturn looks like the death star off of star wars]]> 2018-12-19 08:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315792577 Pluto https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315935307 With 5 moons within a detection limit of 1kn in diameter.Pluto a dwarf planet on the kuiper belt (a ring of bodies beyond neptune) it was the first object to be discovered there. In 2006 the IAU downgraded pluto to a dwarf planet, it has a radius of 1,188 km and a surface area of 1.779×107 km2. Pluto,which is smaller than Earth’s Moon has a heart-shaped glacier that’s the size of Texas and Oklahoma.]]> 2018-12-19 16:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/MrWilkins/ia1i5esbkarh/wish/315935307