solar system
Earth’s weird ‘quasi-moon’ Kamo’oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
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Earth’s “quasi-moon” was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system’s history, a new study suggests. Kamo’oalewa, ...
Unprecedented images reveal jaw-dropping features of Jupiter’s ‘tortured moon’
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Close flybys of ...
Jupiter’s violent moon Io has been the solar system’s most volcanic body for around 4.5 billion years
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The solar system’s most volcanic body, the moon of Jupiter Io, has been in turmoil for at least 4.57 billion years, right ...
NASA spots incredible pink ‘flames’ pulsing out from behind the total solar eclipse – what are they?
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A NASA photographer captured spellbinding images that appear to show majestic fuchsia-pink flames bursting forth from behind the solar eclipse. Snapper Keegan Barber ...
Snapchat turns off controversial ‘Solar System’ feature by default after bad press
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Image Credits: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel; / TechCrunch Less than a week after The Wall St. Journal reported on how a Snapchat ...
Why NASA is launching rockets into the solar eclipse path
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A ‘horned’ comet may be visible during the 2024 total solar eclipse
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A comet with a swirl of light around its head. An unusual “horned” comet is now visible in the night sky — ...
How photos of the April 8 solar eclipse will help us understand of the sun’s atmosphere
Science
There is a gap in our observations of the sun: Part of its atmosphere is effectively invisible to our telescopes. However, images ...
Life on Enceladus? Europe eyes astrobiology mission to Saturn ocean moon
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Europe could be heading to the Saturn moon Enceladus in search of life, according to a new report from planetary scientists who ...
Why low-level clouds vanish during a solar eclipse
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The splendor of a solar eclipse is unique to our world — nowhere else in the solar system does a planet’s moon so perfectly block the ...
