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  1. 🪨🔥 #Earth’s inner core reaches about 5,500°C, roughly as hot as the surface of the #sun.

    Scientists from UC #SantaCruz and Sun Yat-sen University calculated this using diamond anvil cells and shock-wave experiments that simulate the extreme pressures deep underground. The outer core’s liquid #iron also generates #Earth’s magnetic field, which protects all #life from #solar #radiation.

    👉 livescience.com/planet-earth/g

    #geology #temperature #science #magneticfield #planet #heat #solarsystem #geophysics #volcano #earthscience #lifescience

  2. 2026-05-25 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)

    MERCURY
    - Distance (km): 182,246,593.46 km (-12,742,350.14 km)
    - Distance (AU): 1.22 (-0.09)
    - Light travel time: 10 min 7.91 s (-42.50 s)
    - Orbital speed: 56.64 km/s (-2.34 km/s)

    Image: Crescent Mercury
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

    #Mercury #Space #SolarSystem

  3. 2026-05-25 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)

    MERCURY
    - Distance (km): 182,246,593.46 km (-12,742,350.14 km)
    - Distance (AU): 1.22 (-0.09)
    - Light travel time: 10 min 7.91 s (-42.50 s)
    - Orbital speed: 56.64 km/s (-2.34 km/s)

    Image: Crescent Mercury
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

    #Mercury #Space #SolarSystem

  4. 2026-05-25 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)

    MERCURY
    - Distance (km): 182,246,593.46 km (-12,742,350.14 km)
    - Distance (AU): 1.22 (-0.09)
    - Light travel time: 10 min 7.91 s (-42.50 s)
    - Orbital speed: 56.64 km/s (-2.34 km/s)

    Image: Crescent Mercury
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

    #Mercury #Space #SolarSystem

  5. 2026-05-25 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)

    MERCURY
    - Distance (km): 182,246,593.46 km (-12,742,350.14 km)
    - Distance (AU): 1.22 (-0.09)
    - Light travel time: 10 min 7.91 s (-42.50 s)
    - Orbital speed: 56.64 km/s (-2.34 km/s)

    Image: Crescent Mercury
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

    #Mercury #Space #SolarSystem

  6. 2026-05-25 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)

    MERCURY
    - Distance (km): 182,246,593.46 km (-12,742,350.14 km)
    - Distance (AU): 1.22 (-0.09)
    - Light travel time: 10 min 7.91 s (-42.50 s)
    - Orbital speed: 56.64 km/s (-2.34 km/s)

    Image: Crescent Mercury
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

    #Mercury #Space #SolarSystem

  7. 2026-05-24 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)

    PLUTO [ *1930 +2006 ]
    - Distance (km): 5,241,348,061.48 km (-15,426,305.88 km)
    - Distance (AU): 35.04 (-0.10)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 51 min 23.26 s (-51.46 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.22 km/s (-0.01 km/s)

    Image: A Full View of Pluto Stunning Crescent
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #Pluto #Space #SolarSystem

  8. 2026-05-23 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,547,412,815.04 km (-14,430,184.41 km)
    - Distance (AU): 30.40 (-0.10)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 12 min 48.54 s (-48.13 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Crescents of Neptune and Triton
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  9. 2026-05-23 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,547,412,815.04 km (-14,430,184.41 km)
    - Distance (AU): 30.40 (-0.10)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 12 min 48.54 s (-48.13 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Crescents of Neptune and Triton
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  10. 2026-05-23 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,547,412,815.04 km (-14,430,184.41 km)
    - Distance (AU): 30.40 (-0.10)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 12 min 48.54 s (-48.13 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Crescents of Neptune and Triton
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  11. 2026-05-23 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,547,412,815.04 km (-14,430,184.41 km)
    - Distance (AU): 30.40 (-0.10)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 12 min 48.54 s (-48.13 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Crescents of Neptune and Triton
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  12. 2026-05-23 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,547,412,815.04 km (-14,430,184.41 km)
    - Distance (AU): 30.40 (-0.10)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 12 min 48.54 s (-48.13 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Crescents of Neptune and Triton
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  13. Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be Lone Survivor of an Ancient Cosmic Massacre

    The farthest planet from the Sun has a rather strange collection of moons in its orbit. That may…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #CA #Canada #Moons #Neptune #Science #SolarSystem
    newsbeep.com/ca/687516/

  14. Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be Lone Survivor of an Ancient Cosmic Massacre

    The farthest planet from the Sun has a rather strange collection of moons in its orbit. That may…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #Moons #Neptune #Science #SolarSystem
    newsbeep.com/au/688384/

  15. Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be Lone Survivor of an Ancient Cosmic Massacre

    The farthest planet from the Sun has a rather strange collection of moons in its orbit. That may…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #Moons #Neptune #Science #SolarSystem
    newsbeep.com/au/688384/

  16. Our Weekly Update #75 is live! 🎥✨

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    #solarsystem #cats #kraa #chat #solar #airbnb

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  19. RE: academiccloud.social/@mpsgoett

    Authored by IMPRS doctoral researcher Nerea Gurrutxaga, with IMPRS doctoral researcher Vignesh Vaikundaraman as one of the co-authors: this exiting press release about their work on birthplaces of meteorite in the Solar System just out!

    #SolarSystem #Meteorite #MPSGoettingen #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool

  20. 🏛️📆 By 46 BCE, #Rome’s calendar had drifted so badly that #spring festivals happened in what should have been #winter. Priest-politicians had manipulated the system for centuries, adding or skipping months to benefit allies.

    Julius Caesar added 90 days to the year – making it 445 days total – then scrapped the old lunar system for a #solar calendar. The Julian calendar became the foundation of the one we use today, though Roman priests immediately botched the leap-year rules after Caesar’s assassination.

    👉 zmescience.com/feature-post/hi

    #ancientrome #astronomy #history #science #romans #math #alexandria #politics #solarsystem #education

  21. 2026-05-20 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-13)

    JUPITER
    - Distance (km): 870,121,671.24 km (+13,893,011.92 km)
    - Distance (AU): 5.82 (+0.09)
    - Light travel time: 48 min 22.41 s (+46.34 s)
    - Orbital speed: 12.92 km/s (-0.01 km/s)

    Image: Jupiter's Bands
    Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NASA/ESA, M.H. Wong and I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al.

    #Jupiter #Space #SolarSystem

  22. MAVEN Detects Rare Atmospheric Effect on Mars

    New observations from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft reveal that the Zwan-Wolf effect — a…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #Atmosphere #AU #Australia #Ionosphere #Magnetosphere #Mars #MAVEN #NASA #planet #SolarSystem #Solarwind #Sun #Zwan-Wolfeffect
    newsbeep.com/au/682143/

  23. MAVEN Detects Rare Atmospheric Effect on Mars

    New observations from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft reveal that the Zwan-Wolf effect — a…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #Atmosphere #AU #Australia #Ionosphere #Magnetosphere #Mars #MAVEN #NASA #planet #SolarSystem #Solarwind #Sun #Zwan-Wolfeffect
    newsbeep.com/au/682143/

  24. #NASA is looking into developing a relay system of #communications 📶 satellites placed in other locations in the #SolarSystem 🌌, which could cut down the two-week blackout (when the Sun is between Earth and #Mars 🔴) to just a few hours. #LaserCommunications would allow for more data per second, with superior signal fidelity planetary.org/articles/challen

    #SpaceCommunication

  25. #NASA is looking into developing a relay system of #communications 📶 satellites placed in other locations in the #SolarSystem 🌌, which could cut down the two-week blackout (when the Sun is between Earth and #Mars 🔴) to just a few hours. #LaserCommunications would allow for more data per second, with superior signal fidelity planetary.org/articles/challen

    #SpaceCommunication

  26. #NASA is looking into developing a relay system of #communications 📶 satellites placed in other locations in the #SolarSystem 🌌, which could cut down the two-week blackout (when the Sun is between Earth and #Mars 🔴) to just a few hours. #LaserCommunications would allow for more data per second, with superior signal fidelity planetary.org/articles/challen

    #SpaceCommunication

  27. #NASA is looking into developing a relay system of #communications 📶 satellites placed in other locations in the #SolarSystem 🌌, which could cut down the two-week blackout (when the Sun is between Earth and #Mars 🔴) to just a few hours. #LaserCommunications would allow for more data per second, with superior signal fidelity planetary.org/articles/challen

    #SpaceCommunication

  28. #NASA is looking into developing a relay system of #communications 📶 satellites placed in other locations in the #SolarSystem 🌌, which could cut down the two-week blackout (when the Sun is between Earth and #Mars 🔴) to just a few hours. #LaserCommunications would allow for more data per second, with superior signal fidelity planetary.org/articles/challen

    #SpaceCommunication