Word: planetsized
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That answer has meaning not only for Jupiter but also for Uranus and Neptune, which have their own satellites and their own faint bands. Around those planets, little moons have likely taken a similar pounding and decorated their parent worlds in a similar way.
WRITTEN IN THE STARS Many observers think Aug. 17 will be a hard day for Bill Clinton, but that's not what the stars say. "It looks like it's going to be a piece of cake," says Jerome Rainville of the American School of Astrology. "Clinton has no planets...
Even old rogues like Zorro and Godzilla have been reinvented as family men this summer, the former with a long-lost daughter, the latter with a brood of babyzillas left unattended in Madison Square Garden. Lost in Space, which was released last spring, was already about a family back when...
Someday a team of men and women might board a spaceship and fly the 15 light-years to a small, low-mass star called Gliese 876. In its orbit they'll find a cold planet -- as yet unnamed -- of hydrogen and helium gases so enormous it's twice the mass...
If the dot is a planet, as astronomers strongly suspect, its gaseous state and high gravity would make it an extremely inhospitable place. It also seems to be hurtling away into space at thousands of miles an hour, flung outward by the twin stars' combined gravity. That's the only...