The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
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Exoplanet Discoveries Pass the 6,000 Mark, Shedding Light on How Our Solar System Compares to the Rest of the Universe
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
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