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Venus isn't habitable — and it could be all Jupiter's fault | Latest Headlines | lexch.com
Venus is the second closest planet to the sun, and now has a surface temperature of about 880 degrees Fahrenheit (471 degrees Celsius) — above the melting point of lead, according to NASA. This is hotter than Mercury, despite Mercury being closer to the sun.
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) said that Jupiter's movement likely accelerated Venus' fate as an inhospitable planet.
"As Jupiter migrated, Venus would have gone through dramatic changes in climate, heating up then cooling off and increasingly losing its water into the atmosphere," said Stephen Kane, UCR astrobiologist, in a statement Wednesday.
Hunt the Skies for New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System From Home With NASA's Planet Patrol
“Automated methods of processing TESS data sometimes fail to catch imposters that look like exoplanets,” said project leader Veselin Kostov, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. “The human eye is extremely good at spotting such imposters, and we need citizen scientists to help us distinguish between the look-alikes and genuine planets.”
Volunteers will help determine which TESS snapshots include signals from potential planets and which ones show planet impersonators.
The Solar system: The importance of Club Soccer in Cowgirl Soccer | Sports | ocolly.com
Ally Jackson runs to get the ball at the OSU vs. West Virginia women's soccer game on September 25, 2020 at Neal Patterson Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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"I credit a lot of my success to (Solar coaches) Adrian Sulca and Misail Tsapos," Webb said. "I mean they really helped me develop as a player, which obviously gave me the opportunity to be here."
The Solar Soccer Club is a highly touted soccer club based out of Allen, Texas. Solar has both boys and girls soccer teams and features multiple teams with different age limits, ranging from players under 12 and topping out at players under 18.
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STARGAZING: Touch and go with an asteroid | Columns | fredericksburg.com
FOUR YEARS AGO, NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with an asteroid named Bennu and return some of it to Earth for detailed study.
The spacecraft named OSIRIS-REx (a NASA acronym for a much longer name) has been surveying and mapping Bennu's surface from a close distance since December 2018 for the purpose of selecting the best sample collection site.
Asteroids like Bennu represent some of the most ancient material in the solar system and hold clues to its formation.
Second Alignment Plane of Solar System Discovered After Accounting for Galactic Gravity
The converging lines represent the paths of the comets. The ecliptic plane is shown in yellow and the empty ecliptic is shown in blue. The background grid represents the plane of the Galactic disk. Credit: NAOJ
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Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to either the well-known ecliptic plane where the planets reside or a newly discovered “empty ecliptic.” This has important implications for models of how comets originally formed in the Solar System.
Cheops Finds a World That's Utterly Alien From Anything We Have in the Solar System -
The ESA’s CHEOPS (Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite) mission has announced its first discovery. It’s called WASP-189 b, and it’s a blistering hot temperature of 3,200 °C (5,790 °F), hotter than some stars. They’re calling the planet an “ultra-hot Jupiter.”
CHEOPS’ job is not to find exoplanets, but to find out more about exoplanets discovered by other missions like Kepler and TESS . CHEOPS is designed to examine known exoplanets orbiting bright, nearby stars. The goal is to determine the size of these planets, which will lead to a better understanding of their mass, composition, density, and formation. The mission was launched in December 2019, with a planned duration of 3.5 years.
From star to solar system: How protoplanetary rings form in primordial gas clouds
The star, HL Tauri, is located in the constellation Taurus and awakened interest in Pierre-Simon Laplace's 1796 conjecture that celestial clouds of gas and dust around new stars condense to form rings and then planets. An exciting image of HL Tauri captured in 2014 by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array is the first time planetary rings have been photographed in such crisp detail, an observational confirmation of Laplace's conjecture.
Humi, alongside some of the greatest astronomers throughout history, wondered about the creation of solar systems and their evolution in the universe. How do they form and what trajectory will they follow in the future?
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