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There’s a star that’s shaped like a teardrop.
HD 209458, nicknamed 'Osiris,' is being pulled into a teardrop shape by a nearby planet's gravity. The planet is so close that it's causing the star's outer layers to stretch toward it, creating a unique stellar shape never seen before.
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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...