Using the light of that orbiting star, astronomers have plunged into the atmosphere of an exoplanet 850 light-years away. Not just an exoplanet, but one of the hottest we’ve ever met – and at least seven metals are now known to float around its atmosphere as gas. Exoplanet is WASP-121B, …
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Global warming is stabilizing the oceans, raising surface temperatures and reducing the amount of carbon they can absorb, according to research published Monday by meteorologists warning that the findings have “deep and disturbing” effects. Man-made climate change has caused surface temperatures to rise across the planet, leading to an increase …
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New research shows that many more lives have been lost due to torrential rains and fluctuating temperatures. Unusually bad weather can have a significant impact on deaths from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research. Through a detailed analysis of the ice core …
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The world’s most advanced telescopes weren’t built for today’s temperatures, and they mess with our observations of the night sky. Three decades of value data – the home of the Paranal Observatory (the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (VLT)) in northern Chile – reveals many ways in which climate …
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Traces of a rare molecule known as phosphine have been found in Venus’s hellish, highly acidic atmosphere, astronomers announced Monday – providing a boring clue about the possibility of life. The phosphine molecules found on Earth are primarily the result of the action of microorganisms that thrive in human industry …
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