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7 solar system worlds where the weather is crazy

By Jonathan O'Callaghan, Daisy Dobrijevic, How It Works magazine published

What's the weather like on other worlds? Expect methane rain, global haboobs and a 10,000-mile-wide hurricane.

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An artist's depiction of a sea on Saturn's moon Titan.

Largest sea on Titan could be more than 1,000 feet deep

By Elizabeth Howell published

Data from one of Cassini's last flybys of Titan probed the depths of Kraken Mare to better understand the moon's alien chemistry.

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The rings of Saturn glide above Jupiter as the two planets pass near Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

How to watch the rare 'triple conjunction' of Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn this Sunday

By Brandon Specktor published

Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn will form a tight triangle in the sky this Sunday during a rare 'triple conjunction' event.

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The rings of Saturn glide above Jupiter as the two planets pass near Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

Jupiter and Saturn descend on world's tallest building in epic 'Great Conjunction' video

By Brandon Specktor published

A photographer filmed the "Great Conjunction" of Jupiter and Saturn as the heavenly bodies passed by Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

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An image shows Jupiter and Saturn in the sky on Dec. 21 during the "Great Conjunction" event.

Stunning telescope image of Jupiter and Saturn's Great Conjunction will amaze you

By Rafi Letzter published

A telescope close-up reveals the strange beauty of the Great Conjunction.

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Venus and Jupiter hang over a frozen United Kingdom during a previous apparent conjunction of planets.

Could the Christmas Star visible tonight actually be the Star of Bethlehem?

By Rafi Letzter published

Did the biblical "Star of Bethlehem" come back in 2020? It wouldn't be crazy to think so. But it's not the only possibility.

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Jupiter and Saturn come together in the night sky, over the sails of Brill windmill, for what is known as the great conjunction, seen here on Dec. 20, 2020.

How to watch tonight's 'great conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn

By Jeanna Bryner published

Here's how to catch the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, something that hasn't happened this spectacularly in nearly 800 years.

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On Dec. 21, sky gazers looking just above the horizon will see Saturn and Jupiter appearing very close to one another.

Saturn and Jupiter to almost 'kiss' this winter solstice

By Laura Geggel published

From Earth's perspective, Jupiter and Saturn will appear a moon's distance apart on Dec. 21.

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this natural-color view of Saturn's north pole at a distance of approximately 611,000 miles (984,000 kilometers) away, on July 22, 2013.

Subsurface vortexes may have created Saturn's mysterious hexagon

By Doris Elin Salazar published

Two researchers investigated the dynamics of Saturn's churning atmosphere to figure out what sorts of planetary fluid dynamics are creating its mystifying hexagon.

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A high-res, colorful view of Saturn's Hexagon.

Weird Saturn hexagon covered in 'sandwich-like' layers of haze

By Chelsea Gohd published

There's an extensive system of haze layers in the bizarre hexagon on Saturn, a new study has found.

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