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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.

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A Rare Alignment of Five Planets Took Place on June 24

For the first time in 18 years, billions of people around the world could enjoy an incredible spectacle in the night sky – a parade of planets. This is an astronomical phenomenon in which several planets line up in a single arc in the sky.

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Astronomers Discover a Planet That Constantly Burns

Nothing like 55 Cancri e exists in our solar system. Astronomers plan to observe the planet to determine how it rotates, whether it has an atmosphere, and where its hottest spot is located.

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Scientists Urge NASA to Send a Space Mission to Uranus

Specifically, the researchers are calling on NASA to create the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, or UOP. The mission concept involves sending a spacecraft into orbit around Uranus, along with a probe that will dive into the planet's atmosphere.

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Astronomers Confirm the Existence of Ice Deposits at Mercury's Poles

A team of U.S. researchers combined the data it collected with MESSENGER observations and created the most detailed map of water ice deposits on Mercury and even determined its degree of purity.

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Hubble Took a Picture of a Forming Jupiter-Like Protoplanet

The newborn planet orbits the protostar AB Aurigae. The planet is a gas giant whose mass is nine times that of Jupiter. The exoplanet orbits at a distance of 8.6 billion miles from its parent star.

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Temperatures on Neptune Are Fluctuating Unexpectedly

Astronomers have been monitoring the temperature of Neptune for 17 years and found that it suddenly dropped and then rose sharply near the south pole. Scientists do not yet know the reason for that.

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Scientists Detect Up to 170 New Rogue Planets Wandering our Galaxy

If a planet is young and hot, its own residual heat helps find it. That's how scientists found the new rogue planets this time after analyzing 80,000 images taken over the past 20 years of astronomical observations.

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Scientists Propose to Make Pluto a Planet Again

If the approach to defining planets is reconsidered, the status of a planet would be given not only to Pluto, but also to the Moon, dwarf planets, asteroids, as well as geologically active satellites of giant planets, such as Titan.

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NASA's Juno Probe Recorded the Sound of Jupiter's Moon

NASA launched the Juno probe into space in 2011. In almost five years, Juno reached Jupiter. In 2016, it began to study its surface and subsequently transmitted unique photos of the giant planet to Earth.

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BepiColombo Mission Captures First Images of Mercury

On the night of October 2, BepiColombo approached the planet at a distance of 199 km and collected data using its sensors. Ten minutes after the fly-by, the spacecraft took a series of images.

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The Oldest Known Planet in the Universe Discovered

The object orbits one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way, located 280 light years from Earth.