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| Double star with weird and wild planet-forming discs Posted: 30 Jul 2014 10:29 AM PDT Astronomers have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. These new observations provide the clearest picture ever of protoplanetary discs in a double star. The new result also helps to explain why so many exoplanets — unlike the planets in the Solar System — came to have strange, eccentric or inclined orbits. |
| Mercury's bizzare magnetic field tells scientists how its interior is different from Earth's Posted: 30 Jul 2014 06:43 AM PDT Mercury's interior is different from the Earth's interior in a way that explains Mercury's bizarre magnetic field, planetary physicists report. Measurements from NASA's Messenger spacecraft have revealed that Mercury's magnetic field is approximately three times stronger at its northern hemisphere than its southern one. |
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