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2 days ago · On May 20th, 2024, an iceberg measuring 380 square kilometers (~147 mi 2) broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. This event (A-83) is this region’s third significant iceberg calving in the ...
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4 days ago · Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the sun, and it is the fourth-largest planet in the solar system. It has a diameter of 49,244 kilometers and a mass of 1.02 x 10^26 kilograms, making it about 17 times more massive than Earth. Neptune is an ice giant planet, primarily composed of water, methane, and ammonia, and has a deep ...
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4 days ago · That's not a thing that actually happens in the real Universe, sadly. An illustration of the 3 June planetary alignment. A planetary alignment occurs because the planets of the Solar System all orbit the Sun more or less on a flat plane called the ecliptic. Some are a little above or below this plane, but it's roughly the same.
4 days ago · An accompanying analysis of these validated 32 new planetary candidates and found the masses of 126 confirmed planets and candidates with a wide range of masses and orbits. Let’s dig into some ...
2 days ago · 2024 May 26. A Solar Filament Erupts. Image Credit: NASA 's GSFC, SDO AIA Team. Explanation: What's happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual -- it just threw a filament . Toward the middle of 2012, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space, producing an energetic coronal mass ejection (CME).
5 days ago · Today, ESA’s Euclid space mission releases five unprecedented new views of the Universe. The never-before-seen images demonstrate Euclid’s ability to unravel the secrets of the cosmos and enable scientists to hunt for rogue planets, use lensed galaxies to study mysterious matter, and explore the evolution of the Universe.