Hold On… There Are Other Planets in The Lord of the Rings?
We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?
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How to see a Saturn ring mirage
Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...
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Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists. The energized particles around ...
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Barstool's Dave Portnoy rates these Cape Cod restaurant onion rings a perfect 10
Social media influencer and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, of One Bite Reviews, breaks own rule to give onion rings at ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
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Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
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'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
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Saturn and the moon put on a celestial show Sunday night. Here's how to see it
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
Uranus In 4K - James Webb Space Telescope Sees The Planet, Rings And Moons
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows the moons Titania, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel and Puck. Credit; Space.com | ...
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Earth's ancient ring formation linked to meteorite impact 466 million years ago
The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.
Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...