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JWST image of Saturn

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Stunning JWST image sees Saturn show off its glowing rings

A strange and unfamiliar view of Saturn has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope to help researchers identify its smaller objects and structures

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Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet the size of Uranus

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How to see five planets align in the sky this weekend

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inventory of the universe

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Your essential guide to the many breathtaking wonders of the universe

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Tonight is your best chance to see Mercury in the night sky

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Breathtaking JWST image of Uranus shows rings, clouds and a polar cap

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Bits of Saturn’s rings are falling onto the planet and heating it up

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Venus - 3D Perspective View of Maat Mons Photojournal: PIA00106 Source: NASA/JPL Published: May 10, 2004 Maat Mons is displayed in this computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. The viewpoint is located 634 kilometers (393 miles) north of Maat Mons at an elevation of 3 kilometers (2 miles) above the terrain. Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground, to the base of Maat Mons. The view is to the south with the volcano Maat Mons appearing at the center of the image on the horizon and rising to almost 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the surrounding terrain. Maat Mons is located at approximately 0.9 degrees north latitude, 194.5 degrees east longitude with a peak that ascends to 8 kilometers (5 miles) above the mean surface. Maat Mons is named for an Egyptian Goddess of truth and justice. Magellan synthetic aperture radar data is combined with radar altimetry to develop a three-dimensional map of the surface. The vertical scale in this perspective has been exaggerated 10 times. Rays cast in a computer intersect the surface to crate a three-dimensional perspective view. Simulated color and a digital elevation map developed by the U.S. Geological Survey are used to enhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan Science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory and is a single frame from a video released at the April 22, 1992 news conference.

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Vent on Venus is clearest sign yet the planet is volcanically active

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Visualisation of the dwarf planet Quaoar

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Dwarf planet Quaoar has a weirdly big ring of debris encircling it

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The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b

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‘Forbidden’ planet somehow escaped consumption by its dying host star

The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b should have been destroyed when its star became a red giant, but it continues to orbit strangely close to it

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Mars may have a huge plume of hot rocks rising towards its surface

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Meteorite impacts show Mars’s crust is denser than we thought

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Quakes on Mars reveal there may be magma beneath the surface

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Why Mars has captured our hopes and fears for millennia

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