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Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space
A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...
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What If All Clouds Vanished Overnight?
The Silent Guardians of Our Atmosphere Clouds are more than just fluffy cotton balls floating in the sky. They serve as the ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Uranus
Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...
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Scientists discovered a hellish new planet with floating metal clouds
Even more interesting, though, is that the planet appears to have floating metal clouds. Part of what makes WASP-121b so intriguing is its oblong shape. Beyond that, though, the planet is also ...
Atmospheres of new planets might have unexpected mixtures of hydrogen and water
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...
Water Formed Much Sooner After the Big Bang Than We Thought, Scientists Say—Which May Mean Life Did, Too
Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.
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Clouds changing as world warms, adding to climate uncertainty
Scientists know this is affecting the climate, because the vital role that clouds play in warming and cooling the planet is well understood. Recent research has shown that clouds — or rather ...
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Want to understand climate change? Look to the clouds.
Scientists have long debated the role of clouds in climate change, with some arguing that they would make temperatures warmer while others arguing they might help cool the atmosphere. This is ...