naturalsciences
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Suck It, Saturn: Jupiter Now Officially Has Most Moons in the Solar System
Jupiter is a superstar in our solar system. It’s the biggest, it’s wonderfully gassy, and it now has the most documented moons, clocking in at 92 natural satellites. Its new count became official on January 20, 2023, when the Minor Planet Centre recognised the last of a batch of 10 newly identified moons. Jupiter is stealing…
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Webb Telescope Captures Countless Galaxies in New Image
The European Space Agency has released its image of the month for January, and it is (perhaps unsurprisingly) a stunning shot from the Webb Space Telescope.
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Webb Finds the ‘Deepest, Coldest Ices to Date’ in Distant Molecular Cloud
The Webb telescope team has detected water ice and frozen complex molecules in a molecular cloud about 630 light-years from Earth. By the scientists’ measure, the frigid findings are the deepest, coldest yet found in such a cloud.
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Astronomers Find the Edge of Our Galaxy
In the quest to find the outer limits of our galaxy, astronomers have discovered over 200 stars that form the Milky Way’s edge, the most distant of which is over one million light-years away — nearly halfway to the Andromeda galaxy.