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The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 12 hours agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It ...
8 strange objects that could be hiding in the outer solar system
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe outer solar system is a vast and mysterious place that could be harboring hidden objects we know...
Neptune-like planet 'Phoenix' baffles astronomers with its atmosphere
Astronomy Magazine· 8 hours agoAstronomers have discovered a planet beyond our solar system that’s so cozy with its host star, its...
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAstronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for...
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says
Smithsonian Magazine· 12 hours agoDays after solar storms spurred widespread sightings of auroras across Earth in early May, a new bout of eruptions on the sun brought glowing skies to another ...
Encounter Between Sun And "Something Outside The Solar System" May Have Dramatically Cooled Earth
IFLScience· 4 days agoAs the Moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the center of the Milky...
Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good can | Newswise
Newswise· 5 days agoA new study of the dynamics of white dwarf systems suggests that, in theory, some watery planets may indeed thread the celestial needles ...
Right Now The Earth Is Technically *Not* Orbiting The Sun
IFLScience· 11 hours agoDiagrams and animations showing the orbits of the planets are lying to you a little bit. Or to put...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 3 hours agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window into the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising ...
JWST detects aftermath of “cataclysmic” asteroid collision
Cosmos· 6 days agoLocated...light years from Earth, Beta Pictoris is young compared to our 4.5 billion-year-old solar system at only 20 million years old. “Beta Pictoris ...