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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 hours ago

This exoplanet's sky is full of puffy clouds made of vaporized rockbut only on one side

JWST observations provide the first weather report for WASP-94A b by separating its tidally locked day and night sides to measure atmospheric composition.
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fromBig Think
5 months ago

Ask Ethan: Is there really a "dark side" of the Moon?

Both lunar hemispheres receive sunlight; the Moon's far side faces away from Earth but is not permanently dark.
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