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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking.
This massive storm, which could once fit three Earths inside it, has been raging for at least 400 years. However, recent observations show it's shrinking at a rate of about 580 miles per year. Scientists estimate that in the 1800s it was about 25,000 miles wide, but now it's only about 10,000 miles across.
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The Sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system.
Despite the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system, almost all the mass is contained...
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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.
K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...
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There’s a planet covered in burning ice.
Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...