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The largest moon in the solar system has its own magnetic field.
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger than Mercury and is the only moon known to have its own magnetic field. This field creates auroras in Ganymede's thin atmosphere and suggests the moon has a liquid iron core like Earth.
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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...