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Purple haze around Titan – A false-color image of Titan captured in 2004 by the Cassini spacecraft. The purple haze shows the dense atmosphere enveloping the moon’s golden body. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Titan’s atmosphere tilts and shifts seasonally. The discovery shapes future exploration. Researchers at the University of Bristol have uncovered unusual behavior in Titan’s atmosphere for the first …

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A new bat from the Western Himalayas has been described, and it carries two striking traits, a bare ring around each eye and a tail that outstretches its body. The species is called the Himalayan long tailed myotis, Myotis himalaicus. This bat did not simply appear out of thin air. Field teams first caught lookalikes years ago, then circled back …

The JWST has found “dark beads” and unexpected structures inside the atmosphere of Saturn – strange features never seen before in the Solar System. On November 24, 2024, the JWST turned to observe Saturn for 10 hours, seeing the gas giant in unprecedented detail in the near-infrared spectrum. An international team looking at the data from the telescope was particularly …

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered strange “dark beads “above a four-armed star pattern in Saturn’s atmosphere. The surprising structures are unlike anything scientists have seen before, and they’re not sure what they are. The unusual features were discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope‘s (JWST’s) Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) as it peered into the gas giant’s atmosphere above …

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that’s the natural result of a green jay and a blue jay’s mating, say it may be among the first examples of a hybrid animal that exists because of recent changing patterns in the climate. The two different parent species are separated by 7 million years …

Images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS snapped during the September 7 total lunar eclipse seem to suggest that the latest visitor to the Solar System may be turning green. That’s not all that strange for a comet. Many Solar System comets give off a green glow when they heat up enough to emit vapor. However, for 3I/ATLAS, it might be quite …

‘Like trying to see fog in the dark’: How strange pulses of energy are helping scientists build the ultimate map of the universe  Live Science Source link

Images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS snapped during the September 7 total lunar eclipse seem to suggest that the latest visitor to the Solar System may be turning green. That’s not all that strange for a comet. Many Solar System comets give off a green glow when they heat up enough to emit vapor. However, for 3I/ATLAS, it might be quite …

Strange bright light next to the moon confuses Texans—This is what it is  Chron Sky gazers may have spotted something ‘peculiar’ near the moon Friday. What it was  NBC 5 Chicago How to see the moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus in an ultraclose conjunction tomorrow  Live Science Photos capture breathtaking view of three cozy celestial bodies in the early-morning sky  The Boston …