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it’s kinda cool how our generation has created actual tone in the way we write online. like whether we: write properly with perfect grammar, shrthnd everythin, use capitals to emphasise The Point, use extra letters or characters for emotion!!!!!, and much more - it means we can have casual conversations, effectively make jokes using things like sarcasm that’s usually hard to understand without context and much more. this “incorrect English” has really opened avenues of online conversation that isn’t accessible with “correct English” which is pretty interesting

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A fictional depiction of the dwarf planet Haumea. The red spot found in 2009 is interpreted as a crater. The craters on its surface exhibit diverse morphologies due to the shape of the planet and the resulting differences in environment. The cooling history of Haumea also created numerous ridges and cracks to form. Finally, the rings of Haumea created an equatorial deposit as the particles rain down.

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Venus, our inner neighboring planet.

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Ganymede and Callisto, Jupiter's largest satellites.

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I decided to start drawing a bunch of planets suggested by friends. Here’s the first two: Triton and Pluto, two fairly similar planets in the outer Solar System.

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Based on skimming the paper results and discussing with a friend, K2-18 b is turning out to be a warmer Neptune. Expected, but definitely very cool to learn about.

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope show an abundance of methane and carbon dioxide, and shortage of ammonia, in exoplanet K2-18 b’s atmosphere. These results hint at the presence of an ocean underneath the exoplanet’s hydrogen-rich atmosphere.

While K2-18 b orbits its star’s habitable zone and is now known to harbor carbon-bearing molecules, this does not necessarily mean that the planet can support life. The high level of activity of its red dwarf star means K2-18 b may have a more hostile environment than Earth and is likely to be exposed to more radiation.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge).

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Jupiter, a Sudarsky Class I gas giant, depicted the same way Sudarsky Class II planets are often depicted. In reality the water cloud habitable zone gas giants are most likely going to appear very much like Jupiter and Saturn do.