The Universe and Earth Science

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  Rob Olivier

  

  Water reservoir on Mars is two miles deep, would cover planet with nine feet of water

  earth.com - Eric Ralls

  Mars holds many curious features, and one of the most intriguing is the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF). This enormous stretch of terrain sits near …

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  Rob Olivier

  

  Astronomers Stunned by Abundant Oxygen in Earliest Known Galaxy

  ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr

  A galaxy gleaming in the Cosmic Dawn, just 300 million years after the Big Bang, has just been spotted harboring something it …

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  Rob Olivier

  

  The Entire Universe Could Exist Inside a Black Hole – Here's Why

  ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr

  When you peer out into the depths of the cosmos, a mystery lies there, waiting. In a survey of the deep sky, most of the galaxies are seen rotating in …

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  Rob Olivier

  

  

  Webb telescope discovers 6 rogue worlds. They didn't form the way you'd expect.

  Mashable - Mark Kaufman

  A finding years in the making. Sometimes, planets go rogue. Scientists used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to spot six of these rogue objects, which move through the cosmos untethered from any solar system. They're a little bigger than the gas giant Jupiter, and the discovery suggests these …

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  Rob Olivier

  

  It’s important that weight and mass are not the same

  bigthink.com - Ethan Siegel

  If you ask someone how much they weigh, they’re likely to give you a number that they obtained from reading it off of a scale. If that person uses …

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  Rob Olivier

  

  New Evidence for Our Solar System's Ghost: Planet Nine

  universetoday.com - by Evan Gough

  Does another undetected planet languish in our Solar System’s distant reaches? Does it follow a distant orbit around the Sun in the murky realm of …