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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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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...
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There’s a planet where it snows titanium dioxide.
On Kepler-13Ab, a planet 1,730 light-years from Earth, it snows titanium dioxide - the same compound used in...