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JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...
JWST finally detects radiation from Pluto that conclusively determines that Pluto's haze indeed impacts its climate.
JWST confirms Pluto’s haze cools its mesosphere and drives methane escape, coating Charon’s poles red. The haze absorbs UV ...
Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a ...
After New Horizons’ Pluto flyby, UC Santa Cruz‘s Xi Zhang proposed in 2017 that Pluto’s atmosphere is dominated by haze particles, making it unlike any other in the solar system. He suggested that ...
In the wake of New Horizons' observations of Pluto, Zhang published a paper in 2017 that hypothesized that Pluto's atmosphere was dominated by haze particles, which would've made it completely ...
The haze particles that dominate Pluto’s atmosphere—such as nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide—control the atmosphere’s energy balance as the particles are heated and cooled. This phenomenon, ...
New Webb Data Confirms ‘Crazy Idea’ About Cooling Effects of Pluto’s Haze. Scientists found clues in old boxes of bones that may explain why most large mammals vanished in the last 60,000 years.
Every planetary body in the solar system that has a dense atmosphere, and many outside of it, has clouds in that atmosphere. Even bodies with thin, wispy or intermittent atmospheres — like Pluto — ...
In your 30s and 40s, a series of four astrological events — the midlife transits — hit to promote growth and change. Here's everything to know about each, including the Uranus opposition.