Floating in a stream of young stars, astronomers have discovered a trinity of similar neighboring planets like Earth orbiting a very new version of our own sun. The team discovered a young, warmer world using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.TESS), According to a new study in The Astronomical …
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Our fingers grow as fast as the tectonic plates that cover the Earth like a jigsaw puzzle, but over a billion years, enough to travel the entire planet – in an exciting new video show. In one of the most complete models of tectonic plate movement, scientists have condensed a …
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Venus, Earth and Mars were observed by NASA-ESA Solar Orbiter (Solo) on November 18, 2020. The image was captured from a distance of about 155.7 million miles (250.6 million km). Which is the opposite of our Sun about 93 million miles (150 million km) from Earth. In this image, the …
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Earth’s second moon will approach Earth before going into space next week, never to be seen again. “Which other moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it 2020 SO – a small object that orbited Earth between our planet and the Moon in September 2020. Temporary satellites like these are known as …
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Probably the most well-known result of the Earth’s magnetic field is the Aurora Boralis and Austral Australia (Northern and Southern Lights). When charged particles from the solar wind run into the Earth’s magnetic field, they can occasionally emit spectacular light displays. For many years, scientists have thought that the charged …
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