What is the most beautiful planet?

The planet Saturn is probably the best known and most beautiful planet in the Solar System. Saturn's rings are far more extensive and more easily seen than those of any other planet.
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What is the second prettiest planet?

Even from the Curiosity rover on Mars, the Earth shows up on photos as a tiny but delightful blue dot. Many people, including this stargazer, put Saturn in second place for the most beautiful planet in our solar system and certainly the best planet to gaze upon from Earth, even with a small telescope.
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What is the most special planet?

The Latest. Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings – made of chunks of ice and rock – but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium.
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Which is the most cutest planet?

It's called Kepler-37b (O.K., so the name isn't so cute), it orbits a star 200 light-years away, and not only does it give us a new appreciation for how diverse so-called exoplanets can be, it also causes us to address — again — just how we define a planet in the first place.
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What is the coolest looking planet?

20 Strange Planets That Are Both Interesting And Terrifying
  • J1407b - An Exomoon Or A "Saturn On Steroids" ...
  • Gliese 581c - A Potentially Habitable Exoplanet. ...
  • Gj 1214b - The Waterworld. ...
  • Gliese 436b - A Planet Defying The Laws Of Physics. ...
  • 55 Cancri E - A Diamond Planet. ...
  • Hat-P-7b - Where It Rains Rubies And Sapphires.
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What is the safest planet besides Earth?

Besides Earth, Mars would be the easiest planet to live on. Mars has liquid water, a habitable temperature and a bit of an atmosphere that can help protect humans from cosmic and solar radiation. The gravity of Mars is 38% that of the Earth.
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What planet is made of diamonds?

In 2012, Yale University scientists published a study announcing the identification of a planet rich in diamonds. Called 55 Cancri e, the planet is "possibly covered in diamond, rather than water and granite," scientists explained at the time. The exoplanet is twice the size of Earth but has eight times its mass.
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What planet has 21 moons?

In 1999 three new moons were discovered orbiting Uranus, a great gasball of a planet about 2 billion miles from Earth. The discovery raised the number of Uranian moons to 21, the most, as far as is known, in the skies of any planet.
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What is Earth twin planet?

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is Earth's closest planetary neighbor. It's one of the four inner, terrestrial (or rocky) planets, and it's often called Earth's twin because it's similar in size and density.
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What is the most colorful planet?

Jupiter, the Solar System's largest planet reflects many shades of white, red, orange, brown, and yellow. Changes in Jupiter's colors is subject to storms taking place in its atmosphere; these storms allow different chemicals to rise from areas closer to the planet's core to the tops of the clouds.
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Is there any planet like Earth?

Kepler-452b (a planet sometimes quoted to be an Earth 2.0 or Earth's Cousin based on its characteristics; also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-7016.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the inner edge of the habitable zone of the sunlike star Kepler-452 and is the only planet in the ...
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What planet is the coldest?

The coldest planet in our solar system on record goes to Uranus which is closer to the Sun and 'only' about 20 times further away from the Sun than the Earth is. The lowest temperature recorded there was minus 224 degrees Celsius.
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Why is Earth the best planet?

It is the right distance from the Sun, it is protected from harmful solar radiation by its magnetic field, it is kept warm by an insulating atmosphere, and it has the right chemical ingredients for life, including water and carbon.
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What is the 3 largest planet?

Solar System - Uranus. Uranus, the third largest planet in our solar system, may be the strangest because it spins on its side.
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Who discovered Earth?

The first person to determine the size of Earth was Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who produced a surprisingly good measurement using a simple scheme that combined geometrical calculations with physical observations. Eratosthenes was born around 276 B.C., which is now Shahhat, Libya. He studied in Athens at the Lyceum.
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Which is the Pink planet?

Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive. At 460°F, it's the temperature of a hot oven, and it's the planet's intense heat that causes it to glow.
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Do we have 2 suns?

(We already knew the Solar System is a total weirdo. The placement of the planets appears out of whack compared to other systems, and it's missing the most common planet in the galaxy, the super-Earth.) So, if not for some cosmic event or quirk, Earth could have had two suns. But we don't.
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Who is Earth's evil twin?

Venus has been called Earth's "evil twin" because it is about the same size as Earth and probably was created out of similar stuff; it might have even had at one time oceans of liquid water. But Venus appears to have suffered a runaway greenhouse effect.
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Is there only 1 sun in the universe?

There are billions of stars larger or smaller than SUn in the Galaxy..But we call them stars only.. So we have only one Sun.
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Does Earth have 3 moons?

The simple answer is that Earth has only one moon, which we call “the moon”. It is the largest and brightest object in the night sky, and the only solar system body besides Earth that humans have visited in our space exploration efforts. The more complex answer is that the number of moons has varied over time.
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Does Uranus rain diamonds?

Yes, there is really 'diamond rain' on Uranus and Neptune.
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Is Uranus a real planet?

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and has the third-largest diameter in our solar system. It was the first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, although he originally thought it was either a comet or a star.
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Which planet is all water?

Evidence points to oceans on other planets and moons, even within our own solar system. But Earth is the only known planet (or moon) to have consistent, stable bodies of liquid water on its surface.
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What planet is made of ice?

Uranus and Neptune both contain chemicals like methane, sulfur and ammonia in their atmospheres. It's really cold that far away from the Sun. So, these chemicals might be frozen or trapped in crystals of ice. Because of this, Uranus and Neptune are called "ice giants."
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Does hot ice exist?

It has taken one of the most powerful lasers on the planet, but scientists have done it. They've confirmed the existence of 'superionic' hot ice - frozen water that can remain solid at thousands of degrees of heat.
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