Stars, Planets and Telescopes
12 records
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01 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 88,841 miles Largest planet in the Solar System Jupiter · Solar System See record ↗ -
02 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 14.44 redshift Most distant confirmed galaxy MoM-z14 · Observed by JWST See record ↗ -
03 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 867.2 °F Hottest planet in the Solar System Venus · Venus See record ↗ -
04 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 1,640 ft Largest single-dish radio telescope FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) · Pingtang County, Guizhou, China See record ↗ -
05 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 583 miles Largest object in the asteroid belt Ceres · Asteroid belt See record ↗ -
06 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 34 ft Largest optical telescope mirror in operation Gran Telescopio Canarias · Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Spain See record ↗ -
07 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 293 moons Planet with the most known moons Saturn · Saturn See record ↗ -
08 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 24,960,480,792,174 miles Closest star to the Sun Proxima Centauri · Constellation Centaurus See record ↗ -
09 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 3,275 miles Largest moon in the Solar System Ganymede · Orbiting Jupiter See record ↗ -
10 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 13.2 miles Tallest volcano in the Solar System Olympus Mons · Mars See record ↗ -
11 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 2,485 miles Largest canyon in the Solar System Valles Marineris · Mars See record ↗ -
12 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 21′ 3.9″ Largest mirror in space James Webb Space Telescope · Sun-Earth L2, 1.5 million km from Earth See record ↗