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A year after the solar eclipse, Dallas area scientists are still uncovering cosmic clues
For some Dallas-area scientists, the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, was more than just a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic ...
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Solar geoengineering moves into the spotlight as climate concerns grow
As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.
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Eclipses, science, NASA firsts: Heliophysics big year highlights
From October 2023 to December 2024 — a period encompassing two solar eclipses across the U.S., two new NASA heliophysics missions, and one spacecraft’s history-making solar flyby — NASA celebrated the ...
Astronomers Name ‘Super Venus’ Close To Solar System — What To Know
Astronomers have revealed an exoplanet called Enaiposha to be a one-of-a-kind "super Venus" whose carbon-dioxide-rich ...
A mission that could reach Mercury on solar sails alone
Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...
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The utterly beautiful destruction of a planet: Space photo of the day
This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...
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Our solar system is not as unusual as we thought
They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...
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New planet named Enaiposha is unlike anything in our solar system
Sub-Neptune planets that are smaller than Neptune in size are the most common type of planet known to exist in the Milky Way, but they are absent from the solar system. They have atmospheres that ...
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NASA's Webb Captures First Direct Images Of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System
The HR 8799 system, a mere 30 million years old, is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation ...
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Webb telescope directly observes CO2 chemical outside solar system for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been ...
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...