Until March, Saturn had 146 known moons, then astronomers discovered 128 new ones, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our Solar System.
This is the coreography of their dance.
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In the distant, icy reaches of our Solar System, Neptune harbors a colossal enigma known as the Giant Spot—a swirling vortex of chaos that rivals the fury of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, yet dances in a deep blue methane haze. Discovered in 1989 by Voyager 2, this dark, counterclockwise-spinning behemoth can engulf an entire Earth in its vast maw, propelled by winds howling at blistering speeds of up to 1,500 miles per hour, the fastest in our cosmic neighborhood.Born from the planet's turbulent, methane-rich atmosphere, the Giant Spot isn't a static scar; Hubble's watchful eye has captured its dramatic comings and goings, vanishing and reappearing like a ghostly apparition over the years. Accompanied by shimmering bright clouds of frozen methane ice that trail it like loyal companions, this storm highlights Neptune's wildly dynamic weather on the coldest world we know, where temperatures plunge to bone-chilling https://t.co/2qUJ0YzpBa it mysteriously migrates toward the equator, defying expectations, the Giant Spot offers astronomers a thrilling window into planetary tempests, helping unravel similar raging features on distant exoplanets light-years away. In essence, it's Neptune's roaring testament to the untamed forces shaping alien worlds, reminding us that even in the quiet void, giants awaken with a whisper of wind and thunder.
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Happy launchiversary, Voyager 1! 🥳
48 years ago – on September 5, 1977 – Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Jupiter and Saturn up close.
Today, Voyager 1 is about 15 billion miles (25 billion km) from Earth – and still revealing secrets of the cosmos!
This picture of Neptune shows the “Great Dark Spot” and was taken by Voyager 2 less than five days before the probe’s closest approach of the planet on Aug. 25, 1989. No other spacecraft has visited Neptune since.
Voyager 2's last image was taken on this day in 1989. Here Neptune is on the left, and its moon Triton on the right. From this position, farther from the Sun than Neptune, most of the sunlit sides face away from the departing spacecraft. With no more targets for the optical cameras, they were turned off to save power.
@TheLawcast@CewshReviews The mega powers...the booty man running wild...loch ness who really should have been you typical unstoppable monster until he hits the hogan match...anyway got me thinking, if you had pick 4 huge guys to form a heel stable that just squashes everyone who would be in it?
They came to conquer Europe.
150,000 Ottoman soldiers stood at the gates of Vienna, ready to break through...
Then, on September 12, 1683, 20,000 horsemen appeared on the horizon—the largest cavalry charge in history.
What happened next changed the course of history forever:
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1. The Mississippi River and its tributaries