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Magnetic Tornadoes Are Creating Earth-Sized Haze Ovals Around Jupiter’s PolesThe band and clouds of jupiter are visible in this image. the great red spot is starkingly clear in a dark color. The souther pole looks dimmer covered in this haze and among the haze a dark patch where the oval is

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Magnetic Tornadoes Are Creating Earth-Sized Haze Ovals Around Jupiter’s PolesThe band and clouds of jupiter are visible in this image. the great red spot is starkingly clear in a dark color. The souther pole looks dimmer covered in this haze and among the haze a dark patch where the oval is
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Magnetic Tornadoes Are Creating Earth-Sized Haze Ovals Around Jupiter’s Poles

clock-iconNovember 27, 2024
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"Super Fluffy" Planet Has The Same Density As Cotton Candythe texture of a cotton candy placed over a spherical planet over a field of stars

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"Super Fluffy" Planet Has The Same Density As Cotton Candythe texture of a cotton candy placed over a spherical planet over a field of stars
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"Super Fluffy" Planet Has The Same Density As Cotton Candy

clock-iconMay 14, 2024
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Passing Stars Have Changed Earth’s Orbit – But We Don’t Know HowEarth and passing stars

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Passing Stars Have Changed Earth’s Orbit – But We Don’t Know HowEarth and passing stars
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Passing Stars Have Changed Earth’s Orbit – But We Don’t Know How

clock-iconFebruary 15, 2024
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Giant Planets Start Out As Flattened Disks Before They Become SphericalHow a gas giant protoplanet might look from above a pole (left) and from an equatorial view (right)

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Giant Planets Start Out As Flattened Disks Before They Become SphericalHow a gas giant protoplanet might look from above a pole (left) and from an equatorial view (right)
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Giant Planets Start Out As Flattened Disks Before They Become Spherical

clock-iconFebruary 6, 2024
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Amateur Astronomer Captures Large Flash As Something Slams Into JupiterA bright flash on Jupiter.

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Amateur Astronomer Captures Large Flash As Something Slams Into JupiterA bright flash on Jupiter.
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Amateur Astronomer Captures Large Flash As Something Slams Into Jupiter

clock-iconNovember 28, 2023
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People Are Asking Why We Cannot Land Astronauts On SaturnSaturn, with its distinctive rings.

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People Are Asking Why We Cannot Land Astronauts On SaturnSaturn, with its distinctive rings.
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People Are Asking Why We Cannot Land Astronauts On Saturn

clock-iconAugust 30, 2023
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Possible Birth Of Gas Giant Planets Seen In Extraordinary New Space PhotoAt the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star. Observations obtained using the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s VLT, represented in yellow in this image, show that the dusty material orbiting the young star is assembling together in a series of intricate spiral arms extending to distances greater than the entire Solar System. Meanwhile, the blue regions represent data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner. The ALMA data peers deeper into the structure of the spiral arms, revealing large dusty clumps that could contract and collapse to form giant planets roughly the size of Jupiter via a process known as “gravitational instability”.

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Possible Birth Of Gas Giant Planets Seen In Extraordinary New Space PhotoAt the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star. Observations obtained using the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s VLT, represented in yellow in this image, show that the dusty material orbiting the young star is assembling together in a series of intricate spiral arms extending to distances greater than the entire Solar System. Meanwhile, the blue regions represent data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner. The ALMA data peers deeper into the structure of the spiral arms, revealing large dusty clumps that could contract and collapse to form giant planets roughly the size of Jupiter via a process known as “gravitational instability”.
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Possible Birth Of Gas Giant Planets Seen In Extraordinary New Space Photo

clock-iconJuly 26, 2023
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Incredible Time-Lapse Shows Planets’ 12-Year Dance Around Their StarThe HR8799 system has been filmed for 14 years and the first twelve years of that has been stitched together into a timelapse video showing the four gas giants in orbit, some as hot as 1000 K

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Incredible Time-Lapse Shows Planets’ 12-Year Dance Around Their StarThe HR8799 system has been filmed for 14 years and the first twelve years of that has been stitched together into a timelapse video showing the four gas giants in orbit, some as hot as 1000 K
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Incredible Time-Lapse Shows Planets’ 12-Year Dance Around Their Star

clock-iconJanuary 31, 2023
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DART Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Jupiter On The Way To Its Date With An AsteroidJupiter and its four largest moons taken by NASA's DART

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DART Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Jupiter On The Way To Its Date With An AsteroidJupiter and its four largest moons taken by NASA's DART
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DART Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Jupiter On The Way To Its Date With An Asteroid

clock-iconSeptember 23, 2022
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Six Gas Giants Found Around A Very Sun-like Stararticle image

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Six Gas Giants Found Around A Very Sun-like Stararticle image
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Six Gas Giants Found Around A Very Sun-like Star

clock-iconMarch 6, 2018

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Rogue Earth Planets Might Be More Common Than Rogue Jupitersarticle image

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Rogue Earth Planets Might Be More Common Than Rogue Jupitersarticle image
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Rogue Earth Planets Might Be More Common Than Rogue Jupiters

clock-iconJuly 24, 2017

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We Might Be Going Back To Neptune Or Uranusarticle image

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We Might Be Going Back To Neptune Or Uranusarticle image
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We Might Be Going Back To Neptune Or Uranus

clock-iconJune 20, 2017

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Three Giant Exoplanets Found In Twin Star Systemarticle image

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Three Giant Exoplanets Found In Twin Star Systemarticle image
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Three Giant Exoplanets Found In Twin Star System

clock-iconSeptember 1, 2016

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We Might Have Caught The First Glimpse Of Metallic Hydrogenarticle image

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We Might Have Caught The First Glimpse Of Metallic Hydrogenarticle image
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We Might Have Caught The First Glimpse Of Metallic Hydrogen

clock-iconJanuary 8, 2016

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Pebble Theory Of Planet Formation Could Explain Why Earth Is Bigger Than Marsarticle image

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Pebble Theory Of Planet Formation Could Explain Why Earth Is Bigger Than Marsarticle image
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Pebble Theory Of Planet Formation Could Explain Why Earth Is Bigger Than Mars

clock-iconOctober 28, 2015