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Brian H. Gill
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Tag Archives: planets
A Super-Earth With an Air About It: 55 Cancri e, Janssen
This month’s analysis of a piping hot super-Earth’s atmosphere is a big deal. But it’s not the “first” detection of a terrestrial exoplanet’s atmosphere, not by about eight years.1 I’ll be talking about how scientists sift through data, 55 Cancri … Continue reading
Colliding Planets Near ASASSN-21qj: Maybe
They were looking for supernovae. What they found may become a double planet, like the Earth-Moon system, once it cools down. Or a planet with a giant moon, again like the Earth-Moon system. Then again, an oddly-uneven dusty disk may … Continue reading
Spokes in Saturn’s Rings, View With Hubble Space Telescope
That’s a one minute, four second, video with music and no narration. Cool, though. So was this three-minute (their estimate) read from NASA: And that’s all the writing I’m doing today: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023. Aside from wishing you … Continue reading
Sednoids, Rewinding the Solar System in a Simulation
Sedna and Sednoids aren’t this month’s only science news. But I saw two exciting, for me, developments; and that’s what I started talking about last week. This week I’ll wrap up most of what I was going to say about … Continue reading
Sednoids and the Mysterious Missing Planet X
As I’ve said before, this isn’t the world I grew up in. Back then, the Solar System had nine planets, assorted moons, and asteroids. Plus, of course, the sun. Now we’ve got planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, natural satellites, trans-Neptunian … Continue reading