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Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

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A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our ... to stump astronomers for nearly two decades—is it a rogue planet, failed star, or something else entirely? Thanks to an ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

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