(CNN) Astronomers have uncovered increasing evidence that some bodies in our solar system, like Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, are actually ocean worlds.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Massive 'Wall of Fire' Reaching 89,000°F Surrounds Our Solar System | wtol.com
A Dance That Stops 2 of Neptune's Moons From Colliding - The New York Times
Neptune is the loneliest planet in the solar system. The ice giant, orbiting the sun at a distance of 2.8 billion miles, is the only planet that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Along with Uranus, we have only paid it a single visit, back when Voyager 2 zipped by in the late-1980s .
Even harder to see are the planet's handful of moons. The fourteenth was only officially detected in February, and little is known about most of the others. But by using a combination of Hubble observations, Earth-based telescopes and data collected by Voyager 2, scientists have unearthed a curious quirk of its two innermost moons Naiad and Thalassa. These tiny worlds are engaged in a dance routine that has never been seen in the cosmos.
Reach for the Stars: New comet 2I/Borisov visits solar system - masslive.com
Back in August, using his own homemade telescope, Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov first spotted a fuzzy dot of light following a strange path through the night sky. It turned out to be only the second comet from another star ever to be observed entering our solar system.
Back in 2017 comet Oumuamua, was the first. The newly discovered comet has been named 2I/Borisov, with the I for interstellar and the 2 acknowledging its status as the second such object ever found.
In case you are keeping track:
How two intruders from interstellar space are upending astronomy
Comet 2I/Borisov appears as a fuzzy blue dot in a time-lapse sequence from the Hubble Space Telescope, which shows background stars as streaks. NASA/ESA/D. Jewitt (UCLA)/J. DePasquale (STScI)
From the tallest peak in Hawaii to a high plateau in the Andes, some of the biggest telescopes on Earth will point towards a faint smudge of light over the next few weeks. The same patch of sky will draw the attention of Gennady Borisov, an amateur astronomer in Crimea, and many other hobbyists who will sacrifice proper sleep and doze through their day jobs rather than miss this golden opportunity.
Saturn's moon Titan is a lot like Earth, new research finds | Salon.com
When you think of a moon, you may think of a rocky, crater-filled barren surface with little to do besides wander about in your rover and collect rocks . While Earth’s moon is certainly the epitome of a dead world, there are more than 200 moons in our solar system that orbit planets and asteroids. Lucky for human scientists, the universe is far too creative to make all the moons as static as ours.
Using newly analyzed data from NASA’s Cassini mission, astronomers published a study in Nature Astronomy this week regarding a new map of the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The first-of-its-kind map reveals a world that is similar-looking to Earth — specifically, Titan is chock-full of mountains, plains, valleys, craters and lakes. This makes it unlike anywhere else in the solar system, except Earth.
New Data on the Mysterious Ninth Planet X in the Solar System - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency
The TESS space telescope , which is designed to search for exoplanets via the transit method, may have detected the mysterious Ninth Planet , also known as Planet X , in the solar system , according to scientists from the United States and Hungary.
Experts confirm that TESS can be used to trace trans-Neptunian objects, ie celestial bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was clarified that there could be three celestial bodies in this case - Sedna with apparent magnitude within 20.5-20.8, a candidate for the planet dwarf 2015 BP519 with an apparent magnitude within 21.5, and object 2015 BM518 with an apparent magnitude 21.6. It turned out that the images of the three objects were blurred but recognizable.
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You're driving along and a flash of sun hits a neighbor's solar panels on the roof of their home. Maybe you wonder: I can see the panels on people's houses, but exactly what goes into a complete solar system?
Now that most people realize that solar is the way to go—they might be daunted by questions about how complex the system will be to install and how expensive. Let's break it down by component, even though, of course, these pieces only work when used together.
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Called BRUIE, the rover is about to face the ultimate test by operating upside down beneath sea ice in Antarctica f… https://t.co/aJd0wUvlOW CNN Thu Nov 21 17:10:07 +0000 2019
Astronomers hope to use robots to observe ocean worlds in our solar system, which they believe could host life. https://t.co/bxUfOJ1LaI cnni (from Everywhere) Thu Nov 21 12:36:06 +0000 2019
NASA's Undersea Robot Crawls Beneath Antarctic Ice in Test for Icy Moons https://t.co/1zheKMnfJJ https://t.co/1Dhs0xG0WE SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Wed Nov 20 18:59:05 +0000 2019
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