What Is The Cartwheel Galaxy? (Explained!)

The Cartwheel Galaxy is a ring galaxy and lenticular galaxy that sits in the Sculptor constellation, around 500 million light-years from Earth. Its diameter is approximately 150,000 light-years across and possesses a mass of roughly 2.9-4.8 x 19^9 solar masses. Continue reading to find out when this galaxy was discovered and why it is named … Read more

Sun vs Uranus (How Are They Different?)

The main differences between the Sun and Uranus is that the former is a yellow main sequence star at the center of the solar system that Uranus orbits around and produces energy for the entities around it whilst Uranus is an ice giant that is the 7th farthest planet from the Sun that has spins … Read more

Why Does Venus Have No Moons? (Explained!)

Venus doesn’t have any moons because no space debris has managed to make it into the extremely slim band around the planet, where the gravitational pull of the Sun and Venus perfectly balance each other.  Continue reading to discover why Venus may once have possessed a moon and how it lost its orbit. Did Venus … Read more

Jupiter vs Mars (Similarities And Differences)

The main differences between Jupiter and Mars include their size where roughly 20 Mars sized planets could cover the length of Jupiter, their general composition where Jupiter is a gas giant and Mars a terrestrial planet, Jupiter’s far stronger magentic field, Mars’ 2 moons compared to Jupiter’s 79 and how Jupiter takes 12 years to … Read more