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Here’s when 4 planets will be in alignment in the sky — and where to see them
Four planets in the solar system are about to appear in alignment in the night sky. Here's how stargazers will be able to see ...
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An Astronomer's Guide to Seeing the Planetary Cluster This April
Saturn will appear as the third vertex of this planetary triangle, just 2 - 3° from Mercury (roughly the width of two fingers ...
Another planetary alignment is coming. Will people be able to see it? What to know
In February, stargazers everywhere got to see a seven-planet alignment - called a "planetary parade." It'll be a while before ...
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Dramatic Planetary Death Revealed By Webb Telescope: A Planet Plunged Into Its Star
In a cosmic event 12,000 light-years away, astronomers have captured, for the first time, the dramatic death of a planet as it was swallowed by its host star—not by expansion, but by a doomed inward ...
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
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Scientists may have finally discovered why Mercury is so weird
"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...
Where to find the next Earth: Machine learning accelerates the search for habitable planets
A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...
A Blast of Wind From the Sun Squished Jupiter’s Magnetic Shielding
Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers ...