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Finding Earth’s address: How astronomers located our solar system in the galaxy
Finding Earth’s exact position in the galaxy took centuries of observation and innovation. This story follows astronomers as ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...
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The cosmic clock of the solar system: How angular momentum shaped planetary orbits and regular moons
Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.
“It’s all I ever wanted to do,” said Connolly, founding chair and professor in the Department of Geology within the School of Earth & Environment and a research associate in the Department of Earth ...
An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...
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