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Dwarf planet Pluto in False Colour

How Pluto Got its Heart

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How Pluto Got its Heart according to a new study. It happened due to a giant and slow oblique-angle impact on the Dwarf Planet.

The Great Dark Spot (top), Scooter (middle white cloud),[97] and the Small Dark Spot (bottom), with contrast exaggerated.

Podcast Episode 79 l Neptune – The Real Blue Planet

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Podcast Episode 79 is all about Neptune, which is The Real Blue Planet in our Solar System, as well as being an ice-giant orbiting the Sun from far away.

Photograph of Neptune in true colour by Voyager 2 in 1989.

Neptune – The Real Blue Planet

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Neptune is The Real Blue Planet, the Ice Giant of our Solar System residing far away from the Sun near the Kuiper Belt. The only one we cant see with the naked eye.

Image shows artists impression of Mars core. Analysis of Martian seismic data recorded by the InSight mission have revealed that Mars’s liquid iron core is surrounded by a150-​km thick molten silicate layer, as a consequence of which its core is smaller and denser than previously proposed. (Artwork: Thibaut Roger, NCCR Planet S / ETH Zürich)

Mars’ liquid iron core is smaller and denser than previously thought, study

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Mars’ liquid iron core is smaller and denser than previously thought, according to a new study analysing InSight lander's data.

Perspective view of a lobate scarp on Mercury named Carnegie Rupes, colour-coded according to surface altitude. The crater near the middle is nearly 40 km across. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Mercury is shrinking and getting smaller

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Mercury is shrinking and getting smaller according to latest research because its interior has been cooling down as internal heat leaks away.

Globally averaged surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1991–2020 for each September from 1940 to 2023. Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.

2023 on track to be the warmest year on record – September 2023 warmest ever yet

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2023 on track to be the warmest year on record and September 2023 is the warmest ever yet according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service

NASA scientists have made the first observation of a polar cyclone on Uranus. Using radio antenna dishes of the Very Large Array in New Mexico, they were able to peer below the methane clouds and determine there is circulating air at the planet's north pole that is warm and dry. These images were generated using the microwave observations – from left, in wavelength bands K, Ka, and Q. The average brightness was removed to enhance the contrast, and three different color maps were used to highlight various features. The cyclone is visible at the north pole, seen as a light-colored dot right of center in each image of Uranus. The observations used to generate these images were made in October 2021.

First Observation of a Polar Cyclone on Uranus

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NASA scientists used microwave observations to spot the first polar cyclone on Uranus, seen in images as a light-colored dot to the right of center in each image of the planet. The images use waveleng...

This illustration shows the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The planet is about 40 light-years away and orbits two stars. The planet’s clouds, which are filled with silicate dust, are constantly rising, mixing, and moving. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

James Webb Telescope Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Exoplanet

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Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The team also made extraordinarily clear detections of water, met...

This stunning black and white false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of surface materials. The view was obtained during Cassini's close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Meet Saturn’s Spongy Moon Hyperion

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Meet Saturn's Spongy Moon Hyperion, discovered in 1848 by William Lassell. It is the largest of Saturn's irregular, nonspherical moons.