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That portfolio included close-up views of the gaseous planet's stormy clouds, where equatorial winds rage at 1,100 m.p.h. It provided the first real look at the myriad small, icy worlds that are the planet's moons. But its most remarkable pictures were those of Saturn's rings. Formed out of rocky, icy fragments ranging in size from dust particles to boulders as big as apartment buildings, they totaled more than 1,000 in all. Astonishingly, some rings were twisted into what looked like braids of hair. Others contained patterns that resembled spokes...
Cassinelli, working with John S. Mathis and Blair D. Savage, discovered R136A last summer using information collected by the International Ultra-Violet Explorer Satellite. The star is located 150,000 light years away inside the gaseous Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. It is surrounded by ultra-violet rays which give the nebula its blue glow...
David N. Schramm, a University of Chicago astrophysicist, speculates that relic neutrons--those left over from the Big Bang, the gaseous explosion believed to have formed the universe more than 9 billion years ago--outnumber the protons, neutrons, and electrons that comprise ordinary matter by about 10 billion to 1. The average cubic centimeter in the universe contains about 450 of these relic neutinos. Schram contends that if these particles have even a tiny mass, unlike the current description of conventional physics, scientists can construct a radically different view of the universe and explain several cosmological riddles...
Before last week's culmination of Voyager's odyssey, a two-day close encounter of the most extraordinary kind, Saturn was relatively unknown. It is a gigantic swirling gaseous ball, mostly hydrogen and helium, that could encompass 815 earths, but even with the best telescopes and the most settled atmospheric conditions, it had never been seen as much more than a fuzzy yellow ringed sphere. Now, in a flash of binary bits across space, it had become a clearly recognizable place under the sun, with its own wonders, surprises and mysteries...
...edge of the ring system. They were designated 513 and S-14, because they are the 13th and 14th to be discovered. 513 circles Saturn just outside the so-called Fring, which is about 80,000 km (50,000 miles) from the planet's cloud tops -the gaseous sphere has no real surface. 514 revolves just inside that ring. Like dogs herding sheep along a narrow road, the outer moon seems to be keeping ring particles from flying off into space, while the inner moon stops them from falling toward Saturn-as one scientist put it, "controlling an unruly...