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From Buck Moon To Pluto's Rare Appearance, 8 Must-See Night Sky Events In July
Here's a guide to the top celestial highlights to look out for in the July night sky.
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JWST Reveals Pluto’s Haze Cools Atmosphere, Paints Charon’s Poles Red
Pluto's thin haze of organic particles, confirmed by JWST’s mid-infrared observations, plays a crucial role in both cooling its mesosphere and launching methane into space. This methane escapes Pluto’s gravity, landing on Charon’s poles where radiation transforms it into reddish tholins. The study highlights how Pluto’s haze shapes not only...
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NASA's Webb Telescope Detects Carbon Dioxide On Surface Of Pluto's Largest Moon Charon
The team found traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the moon, roughly half the size of Pluto.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Captures ''Heart-Shaped'' Glacier On Pluto's Surface
NASA shared a stunning image on Instagram taken by its New Horizons spacecraft showing a heart-shaped glacier on Pluto's surface.
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NASA's New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto's Moon Charon's Red Cap
NASA's New Horizons mission data along with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling has helped scientists to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. The team realistically replicated Charon surface conditions to measure the composition and colour of hydrocarbons produced on Charo...
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Researchers Unravel the Origin and Composition of Red Spot on Pluto’s Moon Charon
Combining data obtained from several sources, scientists have managed to unravel the mystery behind the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and its composition. NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons had captured the reddish region on the top of Charon and collected data in 2015.
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Atmospheric Pressure On Pluto's Surface 80,000 Times Less Than Earth: Study
The study was carried out by an international team of scientists, and included members from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences.
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Pluto May Have Started Out Its Life as a Hothead
Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on Monday.
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Pluto's Icy Heart Regulates Its Atmospheric Circulation: Study
Pluto's heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio, quickly became famous after NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015 and revealed it is not the barren world scientists thought it was.
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Mystery Behind Pluto's 'Bladed Terrain' Decoded
The mysterious "bladed terrain" of Pluto is made almost entirely of methane ice, and likely formed as a kind of erosion that wore away the planet's surfaces, leaving dramatic crests and sharp divides, scientists say.
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From Buck Moon To Pluto's Rare Appearance, 8 Must-See Night Sky Events In July
Here's a guide to the top celestial highlights to look out for in the July night sky.
-
JWST Reveals Pluto’s Haze Cools Atmosphere, Paints Charon’s Poles Red
Pluto's thin haze of organic particles, confirmed by JWST’s mid-infrared observations, plays a crucial role in both cooling its mesosphere and launching methane into space. This methane escapes Pluto’s gravity, landing on Charon’s poles where radiation transforms it into reddish tholins. The study highlights how Pluto’s haze shapes not only...
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NASA's Webb Telescope Detects Carbon Dioxide On Surface Of Pluto's Largest Moon Charon
The team found traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the moon, roughly half the size of Pluto.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Captures ''Heart-Shaped'' Glacier On Pluto's Surface
NASA shared a stunning image on Instagram taken by its New Horizons spacecraft showing a heart-shaped glacier on Pluto's surface.
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NASA's New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto's Moon Charon's Red Cap
NASA's New Horizons mission data along with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling has helped scientists to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. The team realistically replicated Charon surface conditions to measure the composition and colour of hydrocarbons produced on Charo...
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Researchers Unravel the Origin and Composition of Red Spot on Pluto’s Moon Charon
Combining data obtained from several sources, scientists have managed to unravel the mystery behind the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and its composition. NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons had captured the reddish region on the top of Charon and collected data in 2015.
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Atmospheric Pressure On Pluto's Surface 80,000 Times Less Than Earth: Study
The study was carried out by an international team of scientists, and included members from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences.
-
Pluto May Have Started Out Its Life as a Hothead
Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on Monday.
-
Pluto's Icy Heart Regulates Its Atmospheric Circulation: Study
Pluto's heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio, quickly became famous after NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015 and revealed it is not the barren world scientists thought it was.
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Mystery Behind Pluto's 'Bladed Terrain' Decoded
The mysterious "bladed terrain" of Pluto is made almost entirely of methane ice, and likely formed as a kind of erosion that wore away the planet's surfaces, leaving dramatic crests and sharp divides, scientists say.
