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The youngest known planet is still forming.
PDS 70b is a planet that's still in the process of formation, allowing astronomers to watch planetary birth in action. The planet is gathering mass as it sweeps up material from the disk of gas and dust around its star. This provides crucial insights into how planets form and evolve.
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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...