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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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A spoonful of a white dwarf star would weigh several tons.
White dwarfs are the remnants of stars like our Sun after they've exhausted their nuclear fuel. They're incredibly...
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...