What's Up: September 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA ( solarsystem.nasa.gov )
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NASA is making the final preparations to recover samples from an asteroid that a spacecraft will bring back to Earth in September....
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In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores.
A new NASA study offers an explanation of how quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.
Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune’s shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun’s entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.
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New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets.
Astronomers are perplexed by a strange young planet so close to its parent star that its atmosphere is evaporating and its orbit is changing in unpredictable ways....
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By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how fast it flies apart.