Scientists have captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles ours. The new image is a kind of family portrait, showing two giant exoplanets orbiting a young, sun-like star some 300 light-years away. The image was taken using the European Southern Observatory Very large telescope, located …
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How did Earth’s tectonic plates form? You might think that this would be an easy question to answer, considering that we are now trying to pin down the details of when it happened, and if there is tectonic activity on the Moon. But our knowledge of how this planetary mechanism …
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Lately these have been changes and roundabouts for iPhone fans – we’ve been hit with a series of negative rumors offset by good comforting news, only for the good news to be canceled in turn, but replaced by something good, and so on. In May 2020, that is, a time …
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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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What would the Sun look like as it plunged below the horizon on a long day (17 hours) on Uranus? Or what would an evening sunset on Mars look like when we finally got there? Thanks to some NASA computer models, these scenarios are now a little easier to imagine. …
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