Author: Anirudha Bharadwaj

Mars, Our nearest celestial neighbour after Moon, is a mysterious world with many proofs that show that life once existed on the red planet. Often Venus, Earth, and Mars are referred to as triplets and were very similar in the structure, size, and temperature in the earlier stages of formation. How did life come to existence only on Earth? Venus was very close to the sun to nurture life and had extreme temperature variations. Coming to mars, Martian life did not start once, not twice but thrice!

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Jupiter, the largest of all the children planets of the Sun has been controlling our Solar System in the past, the present and will control the future as well. Jupiter, named after the Roman king of gods, looms between the inner rocky planets and the outer gas giants. Jupiter has a storm called the great red spot that is 4 times the size of the Earth itself and has been raging over hundreds of years. It has a very strong magnetic field and dozens of moons. As much as 1300 Earths would fit inside Jupiter, it alone makes up to 2/3 rd the mass of all the planets, everything about Jupiter is just big!!

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Stars! Me, You, literally everything around and even deep space objects are all stardust. The leftovers of a star’s death will lead to the birth of new objects over a course of time. Thus whatever we see around us is all cosmic products. Much like living organism’s stars do have a finite lifetime. Death! Can stars escape? Nope! The way they die might vary but none of them can escape certain death.

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