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What planets appear fifty degrees from the sun as viewed from earth?
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What planet Undergo transits as viewed from earth?
the two planets that can be viewed from earth are Mercury and venus.
What is retrograde motion as applied to a planet?
The "apparent" reverse or backwards motion of a planet as observed from Earth. The innermost planets appear to have a retrograde motion when viewed from Earth.
What planets appear within 50 degrees of the Sun from Earth?
All of them, at different times. The inner planets Mercury and Venus are the only two that always appear quite close to the Sun.
Is Neptune retrograde?
No. All the planets in our solar system are prograde. At times it can appear retrograde when viewed from earth as an affect of our relative speed during certain times of our orbit.
Are the planets on a straight line?
This may appear so from a Solar System perspective. The degrees of inclination range from 3.38 degrees for Mercury to Earth (which has the largest) with 7.55 degrees of inclination from the Sun's equator.
Which is the planet that you cant see from earth with any telescope?
Mercury is the most unlikely to be viewed because of its proximity to the sun, but it can be viewed with special equipment, like a light filter. All outer planets can be viewed with a telescope depending on the planets position relative to Earth.
Why do the planets appear shiny from space?
Other planets appear shiny from Earth for the same reason the moon does, we see the other planets' reflected sunlight.
What 2 planets can cross the face of the sun when viewed from earth?
mercury and venus
Does Mercury have any phases?
Yes, all of the planets in from the earth display phases when viewed form earth.
What are the similarities between earth and Neptune's?
Earth and Neptune are very different, but share a few similarities. Both orbit the Sun in the same direction. both are a round shape and rotate on their axis. Both planets appear to be blue when viewed from a distance.
Viewed from Pluto would the Sun would appear more than a thousand times fainter than on earth?
Yes, it is true. The Sun would appear more than a thousand times fainter viewed from Pluto than it would as viewed from Earth.
Why do the planets look so small from Earth?
because the further you get away from earth it to gets smaller .... and its the same concept from earth.... the farther you are from the planets the smaller they appear.
