The martian moons are call phobos and demos. Theyre not even spherical. Yet people wondering whether they're just captured last day. O yoses olik te moon. It sounds like a rock that got lost, a wayward. Somebody lost.
How did Uranus get its name? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explain all the things you thought you knew about the names of the planets and moons in our solar system, the formation of the moon, and the constellations.
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Photo Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory
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