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Jupiter

We are all aware about the fact that the Moon and the Venus are visible from the Earth in the naked sky. However, some planets are so huge that they may alone affect the Universe. The word ‘huge’ itself relates to the planet Jupiter. The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is often referred to as the Giant. The planet is so large that it constitutes to all the other planets put together. Although its mass is about one-thousandth of that of the Sun, it is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the solar system. After the Sun, Moon, Venus, and sometimes even Mars, Jupiter is the fifth brightest heavenly object in the sky. The size of Jupiter is about thousand times larger than the earth. 
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Earth

There have been evidences in the past of water on Mars, building blocks of life on one of the Saturn’s Moon Titan and amino acids in nebulae in deep space. However, the only planet in space where life has been discovered is the Earth. Also referred to as World, the Earth is the densest of all the planets and is the largest of the four terrestrial planets. Of all the characteristics that makes Earth a unique planet, two important ones are – Earth is the only planet in which water is present in all the three states, that is, solid, liquid and gas and it is the only planet which is not named after any Roman God or Goddess. Although, about 70% of the surface of the Earth is covered with water, about 90% of the oceans are unexplored. Let us understand the facts about Earth in detail. 
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Schmidt Telescope

The latest and the most advanced among the telescopes which has been finally developed is the Schmidt Telescope. Before it was developed, the various telescopes that were made earlier, despite of the numerous improvements, were facing the issues of colour smears, dispersed images and another problem known as coma. Coma is the stretching of the images which either makes a star look like a comet or any object look like a coma. The cause had been the diffraction in different wavelengths from the lens of a refractor telescope or reflection in different angles from the mirror of reflector telescope. The Schmidt Telescope has also brought an end to the disappointment of the astronomers of not being able to view the sky on a large scale.
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