Saturn Ring Mystery Possibly Solved After Four Centuries of Uncertainty
A new study suggests the rings are made up of debris from a moon that was broken up by gravitational forces millions of years ago.
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NASA's DART mission is a success: Craft nudged the asteroid's orbit
NASA's DART mission that smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid last month is deemed a success after data shows the craft shortened the space rock's orbit by 32 minutes - the goal was just 10 minutes.
Wait, there are no Vulcans out there?
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The hunt for habitable planets may have just gotten far more narrow, new study finds | CNN
In a new study of a world orbiting the most common type of star in universe — a type of system scientists have long theorized could support life — researchers found no indication such a planet could hold onto an atmosphere at all.
“Without a carbon-rich atmosphere, it’s unlikely a planet would be hospitable to living things.”Wait, there are no Vulcans out there?
The hunt for habitable planets may have just gotten far more narrow, new study finds | CNN
In a new study of a world orbiting the most common type of star in universe — a type of system scientists have long theorized could support life — researchers found no indication such a planet could hold onto an atmosphere at all.
^^^Can’t be right. Al Gore said carbon is bad.
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I am scared for gore. He knows that his beach front mansion will be under water in like 4 years and he still lives there. Guess he is going out on his terms?
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NASA image of galaxy starts a 'new chapter in astronomy'
A new James Webb Telescope picture shows a tiny orange speck in the distance that is the farthest starlight ever seen by human eyes. It formed just 350 million years after the Big Bang.
“#Artemis I will soon surpass Apollo 13’s record-setting distance from Earth in a spacecraft designed to carry astronauts.”
Rocketry in the participation trophy era.
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NASA's Orion shares close up images of the moon's cratered surface
NASA unexpectedly lost communication with Orion early Wednesday morning, but it was resolved 47 minutes later. Prior to going dark, the capsule beamed back close-up shots of the moon.
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Seasonal weather patterns found on Saturn's largest moon by James Webb
James Webb shared its first images of Titan, which show clouds hanging in the atmosphere that proves it is the only moon in the solar system to have seasonal weather patterns.
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This is straight off the top of my head, one reason may be it doesn’t have an atmosphere so there’s no bouncing off an atmosphere for celestial bodies that approach it. Also, the earth has been struck a bunch of times, but we have oceans, and vegetation, and an atmosphere and weather and erosion, so they’re just not as visible or they were eroded plus we have a lot of malformation of the earth’s crust because of the earth’s internal processes.
If you Google, it may be a completely different reason I just popped that one right off.
plausible, thank you
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