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Thus far astronomers have identified more than 5,000 exoplanets, but among all of those, most seem to be either super-Earths or sub-Neptune sized. Now, after observing several planets that have been ...
Diamond rain isn’t just a wild space fact, it can also help to explain phenomena about Neptune and Uranus. As these diamonds fall deep into the planets, they release energy, which might help ...
The atmospheres of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune may be separated into layers that don't mix, like oil and water.
Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and ...
In fact, Neptune runs hotter than Uranus, Voyager 2 revealed. Besides the squalls, it rains on Neptune, too—not liquid droplets but diamonds.
New research has determined that diamond rain on Neptune and Uranus forms at a lower depth than previously thought, and could have a stronger influence on the formation of magnetic fields.
It may be easier than researchers thought to form diamonds inside giant planets, which means that it might rain diamonds on up to a third of the planets we have discovered so far ...
An international team of researchers led by Dr. Mungo Frost from the SLAC research center in California has gained new insights into the formation of diamond rain on icy planets such as Neptune ...
Diamonds from plastic A powerful laser was fired at a thin piece of PET plastic, generating a shock wave that created nanodiamonds. (Courtesy: HZDR / Blaurock) Firing powerful laser pulses at pieces ...