Has Jupiter been hitting the treadmill? The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller, thanks to — not a cardio routine — but more precise measuring. Read more from
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It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, giving the planet a denser atmosphere and making it habitable. Recent research suggests the habitability lasted for eons, much longer than previously believed. @ScienceAlert reports:
#astrobiology news: New findings from #NASA’s #Cassini mission show that #Enceladus, one of #Saturn’s moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both poles – indicating that it has the long-term stability required for life to develop.
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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has plentiful organic content, and it might even be harboring life in its hidden underground ocean. @ScienceAlert elaborates:
Bright auroras on Jupiter are captured by Webb Space Telescope.
From @AssociatedPress: "The solar system’s largest planet displays striking dancing lights when high-energy particles from space collide with atoms of gas in the atmosphere near its magnetic poles, similar to how the northern lights are triggered on Earth."
At last, auroras have been spotted on every planet in the solar system, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST’s powerful near-infrared spectrometer recently revealed Neptune’s elusive aurora in all its gently glowing glory.
From link in toot: This composite image features the ringed planet Uranus set against the blackness of space. The planet is depicted in blues and pinks, encircled by a near vertical white ring. The blue and white colors represent infrared data obtained by the Keck-1 Telescope, and the pink represents X-ray data gathered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blues, which appear as blended, near vertical stripes, range from midnight blue at our right, to teal and even neon sky blue at our left. Across the right half of the planet is a teardrop-shaped patch of neon pink which is more solid near the bottom and somewhat less defined near the top. Several pale blue dots mark the surface of the planet, though none appear in the hot pink patch. The near vertical ring, which is slightly tipped toward our upper-right, is quite thin. It appears white when set against the black background, and pink when it passes in front of the planet's pink patch. Upon closer inspection, other faint, concentric rings can be spotted inside this bright ring, primarily at the furthest reaches when set against the blackness of space.
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