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 …
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In a high-resolution satellite image taken by NASA’s Landsat 8 on May 3, 2016, a series of dark, swirling shapes appeared in the clouds above Heard Island, a remote volcanic island in the Southern Ocean. Located roughly 1,000 kilometers north of Antarctica, this uninhabited landmass became the center of attention after the release of the image revealed what looked like …
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Researchers have confirmed that massive “space hurricanes” are swirling over Earth’s polar regions, injecting vast amounts of energy into the upper atmosphere and even interfering with GPS signals. These plasma-based storms, invisible to most of the world, share striking similarities with traditional hurricanes but occur in the realm of charged particles high above our planet. How Space Hurricanes Form And …
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The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we’d been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we’d requested from the Very Large Telescope in Chile. I gasped – the stars were wreathed in a huge spiral of dust, like a snake eating its own …
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