In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is the centre of mass of two or more orbiting bodies and is the point in ...

Most models of the solar system aren't completely accurate, and there's a good reason for that. It's not laziness or scientific misunderstanding - an accurate, to-scale portrayal of the solar ...

In our solar system, that point rarely lines up with the center of the sun. To demonstrate this, O'Donoghue created the animation below, which shows how the sun, Saturn, and Jupiter play tug-of ...

NASA supercomputers have revolutionized our understanding of the Sun, capturing its turbulent motions and complex behaviors like never before. Through a combination of advanced simulations and ...