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Saturn Storm’s ‘Suck Zone’ Shown In Spectacular Cassini Shots

April 29, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Checking out the above pictures of a Saturn hurricane, one can’t help but wonder: how close was the Cassini spacecraft to spiralling down into gassy nothingness? Remove this ad

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Clouds of Sand and Iron Swirl in a Failed Star’s Extreme Atmosphere

January 9, 2013

Artist’s concept of brown dwarf  2MASSJ22282889-431026 (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The complex weather patterns within the atmosphere of a rapidly-rotating brown dwarf have been mapped in the highest detail ever by researchers using the infrared abilities of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes… talk about solar wind! Remove this ad

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Shedding Some Light on a Dark Discovery

August 23, 2011

Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b reflects less than 1% of the visible light from its parent star… it’s literally darker than coal! Universe Today posted an article about this intriguing announcement on August 11, and now Dr. David Kipping of the [...]

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Astronomers Discover a Dark Alien World

August 11, 2011

An exoplanet has been discovered by astronomers that reflects less than one percent of the light it receives from its parent star. Less reflective than black acrylic paint, this planet is literally darker than coal! Remove this ad

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Gas Giant

October 26, 2009

A gas giant is a type of planet not composed of rock or solid matter. This means that neither probes nor astronauts could land on these planets because there is no solid surface. They would just start sinking. At the center, the gas giants have a small rocky core. This core is not very well [...]

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