If you think summer is too hot or winter unbearably cold, take solace that in the distant past seasons on our planet might have been much harsher.
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Feed SubscriptionRadio Array Starts Work to Detect Whispers from Universe
By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The Netherlands, one of the most densely populated countries in Europe, would seem to be an inauspicious place to detect radio whispers from the distant Universe.
Read More »A Day on Neptune Is Less Than 16 Hours Long
Not long after Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846, scientists have managed to calculate the exact length of one day on the distant gas giant planet . Unlike their rocky counterparts, gas giants have long challenged astronomers when it comes to calculating their rotation .
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