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Scientists Unveil New Clue in Solving Jupiter's Great Red Spot Mystery

The Great Red Spot is slowly diminishing in size, from 39,000 kilometers across in the 19th century to just 14,000 kilometers today. By comparison, Earth measures 12,742 kilometers in diameter.

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Scientists Discover Potential Cause for Venus Losing Its Water

The implications of this study extend beyond our solar system. Understanding Venus's atmospheric dynamics can help scientists assess the habitability of exoplanets that could undergo similar transformations.

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Pluto's Famous Heart Feature Formed by Celestial Collision, Study Reveals

Pluto's heart, distinguished by its bright, nitrogen-ice covered surface, first captured public and scientific interest when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent back detailed images in 2015.

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Dwarf Planets Eris and Makemake May Harbor Warm Underground Oceans

The evidence of methane with a geochemical origin, as opposed to being remnants from the Solar System's formation, suggests that Eris and Makemake have experienced, or are still experiencing, warm geochemistry within their cores.

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Astronomers Discover Three New Moons Orbiting Uranus and Neptune

These discoveries represent a technological feat, as the newly detected moons are incredibly faint, requiring specialized image processing techniques to reveal their presence.

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New Images Reveal the True Colors of Neptune and Uranus

Astronomers believe that this comprehensive study will finally put to rest the misperception of Neptune's color and the puzzling color changes of Uranus that have perplexed scientists for decades.

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Astronomers Detect the Presence of Oxygen in Venus' Dayside Atmosphere

Understanding Venus's atmosphere and the distribution of atomic oxygen could provide insights into why Earth and Venus, once potentially similar, evolved into drastically different worlds.

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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Mysterious Planet-Like Objects in Orion Nebula

The JWST stumbled upon "Jupiter Mass Binary Objects" (JuMBOs), which are Jupiter-sized planets freely drifting through space without any tether to a star. What's more intriguing is that they appear to move in pairs, with approximately 40 such duos observed.

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Saturn's Enigmatic Rings Might Have Originated From a Moon Collision

This research draws on data gathered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, whose observations revealed that the material composing Saturn's rings consists of nearly pure ice with minimal dust contamination.

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James Webb Space Telescope Shares the First Official Photo of Saturn

While the JWST is primarily designed to explore the universe's earliest stars and galaxies, the telescope has demonstrated its versatility by capturing breathtaking images of celestial objects within our own solar system.

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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Images of All 4 Gas Giants

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of all four giant planets in our Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The telescope's observations in the near- and mid-infrared range have provided stunning views of these celestial bodies.

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James Webb Space Telescope Shares First Raw Images of Saturn

While the raw images of Saturn provide an intriguing preview of what's to come, the processing and analysis of the data will unlock valuable scientific information and offer a deeper understanding of this captivating planet and its celestial features.

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Saturn's Iconic Rings Are Disappearing

Over time, the rings lose tons of mass every second, ultimately leading to their disappearance. Scientists estimate that the rings may last for another few hundred million years before vanishing completely.

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NASA's Juno Probe Captures New Stunning Views of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io

The new images have confirmed the high volcanic activity of Io, with countless volcanoes and lava flows seen on the surface of Jupiter's satellite. NASA estimates that there are hundreds of actively erupting volcanoes over the surface of IO.

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Scientists Confirmed the Composition of Mars's Core Using Seismic Waves

Scientists were able to confirm the composition of Mars's core using seismic waves that traveled through the Red Planet. It turned out that Mats has a liquid core made of iron alloy and high amounts of sulfur and oxygen.

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You Can Now Compare the Sizes of Different Space Objects on a Dedicated Website

The website is called Space Object Comparison. It includes the following categories of space objects that can be compared: black holes, space objects from the solar system, Alpha Centauri, Kepler-10 system, Sirius system, and others.

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Saturn's Moon Mimas May Be a Stealth Ocean World

Recent numerical simulations of Herschel's crater on the satellite determined that the basin structure and lack of tectonics on Mimas were compatible with thinning ice shell and a geologically young ocean.

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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Captured an Infrared Image of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io

Scientists hope to gather more data on the moon's volcanoes that affect the planet's magnetic field and help form massive auroras on Jupiter. According to the researchers, Jupiter has the brightest auroras in the entire solar system.

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James Webb's New Image Shows the Early Days of Star Formation

The protostar is now hidden in an hourglass-shaped cloud of dust and gas, and it has yet to develop the ability to generate its own energy through nuclear fusion, like the Sun and other stars.

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Astronomers Discover Traces of an Ancient Ocean on Mars

Scientists from Pennsylvania State University have found evidence that about 3.5 billion years ago, Mars had a vast ocean, which covered hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the planet. Its existence was indicated by the topography of the shoreline.

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Mars Is Littered with More than 15 Thousand Pounds of Human Trash

West Virginia University postdoc Cagri Kilic has calculated how much debris humans have left on Mars over 50 years of exploring the surface of the Red Planet. There are now three main sources of debris: discarded hardware, inactive spacecraft, crashed spacecraft.

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NASA Reveals New Stunning Images of Jupiter Taken by the Webb Telescope

The images that show the planet's features in detail were taken by the Webb telescope's near-infrared camera (NIRCam). It can observe celestial bodies such as stars, nebulae, and planets that are too cold or too faint to be seen in visible light.

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NASA Shared the First Detailed Image of a Planet Outside Our Solar System

The exoplanet is located about 385 light years from Earth, and, according to various estimates, it is 6-12 times larger than Jupiter and is between 15 million and 20 million years old.

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Scientists Discover a Super-Earth Located Near Its Star's Habitable Zone

A super-Earth class exoplanet 4 times the mass of Earth was detected orbiting within the habitable zone of a red dwarf dubbed Ross 508. The star is located in the constellation Serpens and is five times smaller than our Sun.

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James Webb Telescope Captured a New Image of Jupiter and Its Moons

The new image clearly shows the famous Great Red Spot, an Earth-sized storm that has been raging on the distant giant for centuries, and even some of the planet's thin rings.