Category: Astronomy
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Explaining. Geometry. Rage!
Geometric storm patterns on Jupiter's south pole have been a mystery to scientists, but researchers may have uncovered how they form. (1) Explaining things. By simply... explaining them. Describing how they are formed. By describing how they are… formed. Humans who learnt how to think. By just... thinking. Oh, dark skies. Now I see why…
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At the stars…
Already, climate change is having an impact on the conditions of space observation at the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert. In future, new telescopes will have to be adapted to the expected changes, a new study. (1) I cannot see stars if it's raining. I cannot see the Sun if it's night. I…
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Earth’s rust…
To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study published in Science Advances led by Shuai Li. "Our hypothesis is that lunar hematite is formed through oxidation of lunar surface iron by the oxygen from the Earth's upper atmosphere…
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Weird planets…
Peculiar planetary system architecture around three Orion stars explained: In our Solar System, the eight planets and many other minor objects orbit in a flat plane around the Sun; but in some distant systems, planets orbit on an incline -- sometimes a very steep one. New work could explain the architecture of multi-star systems in…
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The bar mystery…
The majority of spiral galaxies, like our home the Milky Way, host a large bar-like structure of stars in their canter. Knowledge of the true bar size and rotational speed is crucial for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. However our galaxy's bar size and rotational speed have been strongly contested in the last 5…
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