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Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (953+ words) Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths. There, dark and bright features sweep across the planet's upper sulfuric acid clouds. Scientists have observed these patterns for about a century, yet the…...
Five night sky events to look forward to this autumn
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (626+ words) Autumn brings longer nights to the northern hemisphere, offering more opportunities to get outside and look up at the night sky. There is plenty to look out for over the coming months, from impressive meteor showers to dazzling star clusters....
Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are extraordinarily common around other stars, yet our solar system has none. New solar-evolution modelling offers a dramatic possibility: the young Sun may have swallowed a rocky planet five to ten times Earth’s mass, leaving chemical and seismic fingerprints that could still be hidden inside it today.
13+ hour, 26+ min ago (1212+ words) Solar-evolution models favour engulfment of a compact world near 5.6 Earth masses, but the result is an indirect fit to helioseismic and chemical constraints rather than a detected lost planet....
A Planet Where a Year Lasts Only Six Days
14+ hour, 28+ min ago (162+ words) What would life feel like if a year ended before the weekend arrived? About 102 light-years from Earth, astronomers have identified a planetary system where …...
Meteorite Grains Preserve Evidence of a Magnetic Field in the Infant Solar System — Curiosmos
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (251+ words) Tiny minerals inside one of the most pristine meteorites ever found still carry a record of magnetism from the solar system’s first 200,000 years. Tiny mineral grains inside an Antarctic meteorite may preserve the oldest evidence yet of a magnetic field…...
The Sky Today on Saturday, September 12: Dione skims Saturn’s pole
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (163+ words) September 11: Visit the Deer Lick Group Saturn dominates the southern sky in the early hours after midnight. It’s the brightest point of light here, standing some 50° high around 2 A.M. local daylight time. In addition to its biggest and brightest…...
The Sky This Week from September 11 to 18: Catch the zodiacal light
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (982+ words) Friday, September 11Already high in the north after sunset, the planetary nebula NGC 6543 in Draco is famously called the Cat’s Eye Nebula. It’s best seen with a large telescope, but even a small scope will pick it up and show it…...
5 planets visible in UAE skies this September: How to spot each one
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (540+ words) Autumn equinox, Harvest Moon and five planets light up UAE’s September nights Dubai: We are eleven days into September, and there is still plenty to see in the UAE's night sky. Saturn is already out for most of the night....
Farewell to Venus
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (66+ words) Week of Sept. 13-19, 2026 This week we bid adieu to the brightest planet in the heavens: Venus. For the past few months, it has glistened like a jewel in our western sky at dusk, but now itu2019s appearing lower at dusk each…...
A Rare Element Could Reveal Stars That Have Swallowed Their Planets
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