neptune
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Neptune’s Stinky Dark Vortex Is Fading Away Like A Bad Fart
In 2015, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a strange feature in the skies over Neptune – a swirling dark vortex the size of China. Packing copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide – the chemical ingredient that gives farts their awful smell – this storm is not behaving as astronomers predicted, with the latest results suggesting the…
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Scientists Think They Have Solved An Important Mystery About Brown Dwarfs
Are they stars? Are they lost planets? Brown dwarfs, the galaxy’s dark, wandering orbs, are some of space’s most perplexing features. They’re larger than Jupiter but smaller than stars, glow on their own and, well, they’re just really strange. A new analysis seems to explain at least a few of their mysteries.
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Neptune’s Rings Are Tragically Underrated
Saturn’s rings are easy to love. They’re hauntingly beautiful reminders of how insignificant we are in the scope of the universe. But they also unfairly outshine the rest of the gas giants’ ring systems. Uranus, for example, is a wonderland encompassed by at least 13 rings. Jupiter has its own ghostly rings, too. But perhaps…
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Mysterious Planet X Could Be The Ninth Planet In Our Solar System
There could be a new ninth planet floating beyond the dark edges of our solar system, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal from CalTech professors Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin.