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- | caption = {{mp|2014 WC|510}} imaged by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] in March 2024 ...the binary nature of {{mp|2014 WC|510}} when its two components [[stellar occultation|occulted]] a star on 1 December 2018. The components of the {{mp|2014 WC|51 ...19 KB (2,529 words) - 02:34, 11 December 2024
- | caption = Vanth (smaller object) orbiting Orcus, imaged by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]]. | mean_diameter = {{val|442.5|10.2|u=km}} ([[occultation]])<ref name="Sickafoose2019"/>{{rp|page=663}}<br/>{{val|475|75|ul=km}} ([[T ...34 KB (4,469 words) - 21:27, 5 February 2025
- | discovered = 13 October 2015<br />{{small|(first observed only)}} ...the time of its announcement in March 2018, it was the third most distant observed natural object in the [[Solar System]], after [[Eris (dwarf planet)|Eris]] ...17 KB (2,296 words) - 22:06, 23 January 2025
- ...The blue color is close to what a human eye would have seen, and is caused by layers of haze in the atmosphere ...=Stern_2015/> abundances of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide are given by Lellouch and collaborators<ref name=Lellouch_2017/>}} ...59 KB (8,070 words) - 16:25, 19 January 2025
- [[File:ParallaxV2.svg|thumb|Stellar parallax motion from annual parallax. Half the apex angle is the parallax a ...Sun (yellow-filled circle). The lower diagram shows the equal angle swept by the Sun in a geostatic model. A similar diagram can be drawn for a star exc ...35 KB (5,241 words) - 04:54, 31 January 2025
- ...ngle#Combining angle pairs|complement]] of {{mvar|β}}, which is expressed by the difference {{nobr| {{mvar|i}} {{=}} 90° – {{mvar|β}}}}. Thus, the axial ...present on its surface, which is only retained by the largest Kuiper belt objects. ...77 KB (9,654 words) - 19:13, 27 January 2025
- ...[[asteroid]], a [[comet]], or a [[rogue planet]], but not a [[star]] or [[stellar remnant]]) in [[interstellar space]] that is not [[gravitationally bound]] ...h they are difficult to distinguish from [[sub-brown dwarf]]s, planet-mass objects that formed in interstellar space as stars do. ...54 KB (7,198 words) - 07:42, 6 January 2025
- {{short description|Set of gravitationally bound objects in orbit}} ...e adjectives of their primary (e.g. "[[Jovian system]]"), or less commonly by the name of their primary (e.g. "Jupiter system"). Where only one satellit ...41 KB (5,742 words) - 00:22, 13 September 2024
- ...isov|other comets discovered by Gennadiy Borisov|List of comets discovered by Gennadiy Borisov}} | semimajor = {{val|-0.85132|0.00007|u=AU}}{{Efn|Objects with eccentricities greater than 1 will have a negative semimajor axis, giv ...59 KB (7,927 words) - 15:18, 2 February 2025
- {{Distinguish||text=the [[Planet X]] proposed in 1906 by [[Percival Lowell]]}} ...j2025/>{{efn-ua|As of 2024 the semi-major axis of Planet Nine is estimated by Siraj, Chyba and Tremaine to be 290 AU, with a margin or error of {{±|30}} ...184 KB (25,307 words) - 08:37, 1 March 2025
- {{Short description|Radio waves produced by the Sun}} ...ich means that they are the summation of radiation generated independently by many individual particles. These mechanisms are primarily responsible for t ...76 KB (11,084 words) - 17:43, 2 December 2024
- ...tune's dark spots are not permanent features; the large dark spot observed by ''Voyager 2'' was designated GDS-89 for "Great Dark Spot 1989".}} ...lar System objects by size|fourth-largest planet]] in the [[Solar System]] by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest [[giant planet]]. ...147 KB (20,213 words) - 21:39, 27 February 2025
- ! style="text-align:left" | [[Stellar evolution|Evolutionary stage]] ! style="text-align:left" | [[Stellar classification|Spectral type]] ...187 KB (25,955 words) - 17:28, 25 February 2025