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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
Space on MSN3d
Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data
Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...
Space on MSN7d
NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable scientists to detect the faint light ...
Space on MSN12d
'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...
Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...
The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega’s Missing Planets
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...
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Shape-Shifting Storm: Astronomers Scrutinize Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published recently in The ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12d
The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
Phys.org on MSN10d
A space walking robot could build a giant telescope in space
The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle ... missions requiring assembly of space stations, ...
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Hubble telescope captures stunning images of star system reminiscent of a volcano
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking ... The red giant is said to be over 400 times the size of our solar system’s Sun and, at its peak, shines nearly 5,000 times brighter.