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  1. Inside the ice giants, a layer exists of familiar rains and snows...and often at a pressure range that wouldn't require spacesuits! Could these planets harbor environments that are shockingly Earth-like?

    More thoughts at my #blog: adamasnemesis.com/2025/12/14/a

    This post's featured image is Neptune and Triton seen on departure by Voyager 2.

    #worldbuilding #science #astronomy #habitability #planetaryhabitability #icegiants #planetaryscience #gasgiants #atmospheres #oxygen

  2. Around Sirius A: helium-dominated gas giants with featureless white haze...and secrets that only peek out when the meteors light up the sky?

    Read more at my #blog: adamasnemesis.com/2025/06/26/w

    This post's feauted image is my very own "Girl gazing at Saturn in sepia from orbit".

    #worldbuilding #scifi #sciencefiction #heliumplanets #gasgiants #planets #Sirius

  3. #Saturn's mega-storms challenge planetary formation models
    Scientists are reassessing theories of how #gasgiants form after observing that fallout from Saturn's cyclical mega storms can last for centuries. Observations dating as far back as 1876 have shown that visible storms lurk beneath Saturn's normally calm outer atmosphere., leaving long-lasting impacts and raising lots of scientific questions theregister.com/2023/08/15/sat

  4. Teaching about planets? Here you can find many free downloads & resources -
    Terrestrial planets
    Origin of planet’s names in mythology
    Venus; Earth; Mars
    Gas giants and ice giants
    Jupiter and its moons
    Saturn
    Dwarf planets
    What is a “moon”?

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    #science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers #astronomy #earthscience #planets #gasgiants #venus #Mars #moons

  5. A gas giant planet that couldn’t have formed the way Jupiter did - Enlarge / The Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, which was used to discover this planet. (credit: Ped... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1577489 #exoplanets #gasgiants #science