Scientists have identified low-energy particles lurking near the Sun that likely originated from solar wind interactions well beyond Earth orbit. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is venturing closer to the Sun …read more Source:: Science
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How the solar system got its ‘Great Divide,’ and why it matters for life on Earth
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•Scientists have finally scaled the solar system’s equivalent of the Rocky Mountain range. …read more Source:: Science
First identified comet to visit our solar system from another star
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•Comet 2I/Borisov is a mysterious visitor from the depths of space — the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. Hubble images capture the comet streaking though our …read more Source:: Science
ESO telescope reveals what could be the smallest dwarf planet yet in the solar system
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•Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest …read more Source:: Science
Hubble observes first confirmed interstellar comet
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•Hubble has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov — whose speed and trajectory indicate it has come from beyond our solar system. Comet …read more Source:: Science
Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
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•A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously unexplained solar phenomena. …read more Source:: Science
Newly discovered comet is likely interstellar visitor
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•A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The official confirmation that comet C/2019 Q4 is …read more Source:: Science
Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet
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•A colossal, head-on collision between Jupiter and a still-forming planet in the early solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago, could explain surprising readings from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, according to …read more Source:: Science
TESS satellite uncovers ‘first nearby super-Earth’
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•NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system — and …read more Source:: Science
Jupiter-like exoplanets found in sweet spot in most planetary systems
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•A survey of 300 stars in search of exoplanets finds that massive, Jupiter-like gas giants are found just about where Jupiter is in our own solar system. …read more Source:: Science