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?
Astronomy on MSN4d
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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This Potentially Rogue Planet Might Have Rings That Rotate Backwards — And That’s Not the Weird Part
The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN7d
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 ...
Space on MSN7d
'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.
Phys.org1d
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 ...
Space on MSN8d
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 | ...
Space on MSN4d
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 ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Earth’s telescopes aren’t strong enough to view Neptune’s auroras directly ... beyond the geographical boundary of the planet—a ring, perhaps. Even then, scientists disputed the ring ...