Jupiter may be the most famous hurricane in the solar system, but that doesn’t mean it gets all the fun – and Neptune has been introduced to scientists by Doozy. However, the tendency of the storm over a large part of the ice is not uncommon, but this is the …
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Invisible structures created by the gravitational interaction in the solar system have formed the “space superhighway” network, astronomers have discovered. These channels enable rapid travel of objects through space, and can be used for our own space exploration purposes, as well as for the study of comets and asteroids. Using …
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About 730 light years away, around a star that closely resembles our Sun, astronomers have found a really strange exoplanet. It is only slightly smaller than Neptune, which could indicate a gaseous planet … but it is more than twice as massive as Neptune, with a density comparable to Earth …
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Deep in the hearts of Neptune and Uranus, it could be raining diamonds. Now scientists have produced new experimental tests that show how this could be possible. The hypothesis is that the intense heat and pressure thousands of kilometers below the surface of these ice giants should separate the hydrocarbon …
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