Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it orbits the sun. Astronomers have long suspected that this tilt comes from gravitational interactions with its neighbor Neptune, as ...
Using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), researchers have found more than 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located in the far reaches of the solar system, including more than 100 new discoveries. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, the study also describes a new approach for finding similar types of objects and ...
NASA’s Hubble telescope recently captured a series of images of Neptune and Uranus that show two huge storms on the icy planets. Images were taken during the telescope’s routine annual weather monitoring schedule. The storms on both planets were concentrated in the northern regions. NASA’s Hubble Telescope captures planetary storms The storm identified on Neptune ...
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