A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our solar system. It is the first known solar system object that has been detected at a distance …read more Source:: Science
Tag: our Solar system
Scientists introduce cosmochemical model for Pluto formation
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•Scientists integrated NASA’s New Horizons discoveries with data from ESA’s Rosetta mission to develop a new theory about how Pluto may have formed at the edge of our solar system. …read more Source:: Science
Stellar magnetism: What’s behind the most brilliant lights in the sky?
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•Space physicists have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system). …read more Source:: Science
Planets around other stars are like peas in a pod
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•A study of 909 planets and 355 stars reveals that, unlike our solar system, other planetary systems are distinguished by strict regularity. …read more Source:: Science
The super-Earth that came home for dinner
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•It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of …read more Source:: Science
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ends its historic exploration of Saturn
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•A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system has come to a close, as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its …read more Source:: Science
Planet Nine hypothesis supported by new evidence
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•Last year, the existence of an unknown planet in our Solar system was announced. However, this hypothesis was subsequently called into question as biases in the observational data were detected. …read more Source:: Science