Three tracers reveal a planet still being built
Hubble, VLT, and ALMA data converge on EK Cha b, a candidate young giant whose carbon-monoxide footprint fits a circumplanetary disk.
Accepted Study · Protoplanet Candidate
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Satellite fleets keep overshooting the sky's brightness limit
An uncued survey logs 25,000 tracks and finds large operator-to-operator differences, with one in three Rubin twilight exposures predicted to carry a trail.
Preprint · Satellite Foreground Measured
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Webb traces rock vapor into alien clouds
Spectra of three benchmark L dwarfs reveal gaseous silicon monoxide alongside model-dependent silicate and iron cloud layers.
Preprint · Molecular and Cloud Retrieval
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Quaoar's moon is darker and stranger than expected
A stellar occultation and eleven Hubble orbits constrain Weywot as a 73-kilometer, triaxial body with an unusually low reflectivity.
Preprint · Shape and Albedo Constrained
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Io's thin atmosphere changes by a factor of 27
Nineteen years of infrared spectra map a persistent dayside asymmetry that eclipse cooling cannot explain on its own.
Accepted Study · Long-Term Atmospheric Map
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One rocky world can settle into several climates
A new fast model spans snowball, temperate, runaway-onset, and post-runaway states to map how rotation, eccentricity, and oceans alter tipping points.
Accepted Model · Climate Attractors Mapped
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ED’S HIGH THOUGHT · FICTIONAL HUMOR
Whoa, dude… brown dwarfs have silicate clouds, which means somewhere the weather is made of future glass. An alien can get caught in a storm and come home as a window. That's why flying saucers have no visible windshield: the pilot sneezed during weather and became the windshield. Every UFO is just one extremely embarrassed extraterrestrial staring at Earth through his own transparent butt.
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