This month's featured articleEdit

Forest planet (P-Class VII, symbol F), sometimes called jungle planet, is a theoretical physical classification of terrestrial planet with most or all of the surface covered with forests. The surface is mostly covered with trees, grasses, shrubs, and possibly fungi, including mushrooms, along with densely-populated wildlife roaming through forests. The atmospheres of forest planets tend to be at least three times thicker than Earth's and the color of such planets depend on the type of star it orbits, especially green around Sun-like stars. Forest planets are often seen in science fiction such as the Star Wars planet Dagobah and the forest moon of Endor. In reality, there are no known forest planets as of 2012.

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The Sunflower Galaxy (M63, NGC 5055) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici in the caelregio Noctua. The galaxy consists of a central disk surrounded by many short spiral arm segments. It is part of the M51 Group which also includes the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). The Sunflower Galaxy was one of the first galaxies to have spiral structures identified. A supernova took place in this galaxy in 1971.

Did you know...Edit

• ... that the color opposite of peach is blue and of pink is green?
• ... that aliens may have visited Earth thousands of years ago to help ancient peoples build cities and megastructures?
• ... that hot Jupiters form when such planets form beyond the ice line and then migrated in due to interactions with planetesimals?
• ... that if antimatter makes contact with matter, they annihilate, releasing explosive amounts of gamma rays?