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  • Thumbnail for The Planets
    The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the...
    46 KB (4,919 words) - 19:40, 22 September 2024
  • The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance...
    5 KB (565 words) - 13:45, 2 May 2024
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    broadened to include objects only visible with assistance: the moons of the planets beyond Earth; the ice giants Uranus and Neptune; Ceres and other bodies...
    197 KB (20,760 words) - 20:14, 24 October 2024
  • astrologers, the planets represented the will of the deities and their direct influence upon human affairs. To modern astrologers, the planets can represent...
    57 KB (6,060 words) - 07:28, 3 November 2024
  • known in the English-speaking world as the adaptation entitled Battle of the Planets (1978). The series had additional English adaptations with G-Force: Guardians...
    55 KB (5,271 words) - 03:31, 19 October 2024
  • Battle of the Planets is an American adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (1972). Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes...
    32 KB (2,995 words) - 00:33, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Formation and evolution of the Solar System
    Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed. This model...
    113 KB (13,496 words) - 07:25, 2 November 2024
  • backdrop of fixed stars (the common stars which seem still in contrast to the planets). Visible to humans on Earth there are seven classical planets (the seven...
    24 KB (1,935 words) - 05:16, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gustav Holst
    composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none...
    89 KB (11,621 words) - 01:06, 4 November 2024
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    atmospheres. The planets have low densities; they may consist of large amounts of volatile materials. Due to the possibility of several of the planets being...
    180 KB (19,791 words) - 11:00, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Copernican heliocentrism
    retained several of the Ptolemaic elements, causing inaccuracies, such as the planets' circular orbits, epicycles, and uniform speeds, while at the same time...
    42 KB (5,222 words) - 13:05, 23 October 2024
  • following Sandy Frank Entertainment's initial 1978 effort Battle of the Planets and preceding ADV Films' 2005 attempt, known merely as Gatchaman. With...
    32 KB (3,707 words) - 00:31, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Astrarium
    counting time and representing calendar dates and holidays, showed how the planets moved around the celestial sphere in one timepiece. This was its main...
    7 KB (751 words) - 03:43, 11 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Deferent and epicycle
    Secondarily, it also explained changes in the apparent distances of the planets from the Earth. It was first proposed by Apollonius of Perga at the end...
    35 KB (4,563 words) - 23:41, 8 July 2024
  • The Planets are Blasted is the second album by the Boston Spaceships, released in 2009. All songs written by Robert Pollard. Side A Canned Food Demons...
    2 KB (112 words) - 07:37, 24 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Zodiac
    refer to the region of the celestial sphere encompassing the paths of the planets corresponding to the band of about eight arc degrees above and below...
    65 KB (6,609 words) - 10:22, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orrery
    System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent...
    28 KB (3,031 words) - 10:29, 1 November 2024
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    Vishvaksena. The planets of Vaikuntha are described as being full of golden palaces and hanging gardens that grow fragrant fruits and flowers. The planets of Vaikuntha...
    15 KB (1,800 words) - 04:14, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geocentric model
    Sun appears to revolve around Earth once per day. While the Moon and the planets have their own motions, they also appear to revolve around Earth about...
    75 KB (8,802 words) - 12:48, 27 October 2024
  • multi-planet system discovered by the Kepler mission. The outermost of the planets is a gas giant orbiting within the habitable zone of the stars. Because...
    22 KB (2,132 words) - 06:23, 22 December 2023
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