I came across an interactive NASA tool called Solar System Simulator. On it, you can view objects in our solar system from ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

There are two photochemical reactors in the engineering laboratories, an Oriel ABB solar simulator and Rayonet photochemical reactor. The Oriel ABB solar simulator uses a xenon lamp to replicate the ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

In these cases, too, the flybys that had previously altered the giant planets' orbits to their present states recreated the solar system's current appearance. The simulation that produced the most ...

CosmoScout VR is an open-source simulation of our solar system developed at the Institute of Software Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It is primarily aimed at the interactive ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha ...

The illumination system consists of a round collimator ... at outdoor conditions. The design of the solar simulator, setup, and test results are presented in the paper “Collimated solar ...