[ad_1] Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon could have formed from a giant collision between the early Earth and another huge object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists led by Durham University in the UK ran supercomputer simulations on the DiRAC high-performance computing facility to send a …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: Artist’s impression of the system, with the star in the center and the internal dust ribbon from which the gas is produced and dispersed outwards to the … view More Credits: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge Astronomers have captured a unique stage in the evolution of the …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: This graph shows how the amount of water in Mars’ atmosphere varies with the season. During the global and regional dust storms, which occur during the southern spring and … sight More Credits: University of Arizona / Shane Stone / NASA Goddard / Dan Gallagher Scientists using an …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: This artist’s conception of the icy moon of Jupiter Europa shows a hypothesized cryo-volcanic eruption, in which brackish water from inside the frozen shell explodes into space. A new model of this … view More Credit: Image credit: Justice Blaine Wainwright On Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, powerful eruptions …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: An artist’s conception of HD 209458 b, an exoplanet whose atmosphere is torn away at more than 35,000 km / hour by the radiation of its nearby parent star. This hot view More Credits: NASA / European Space Agency / Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS) Fast …
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