Left: The known exoplanet population (divided into two bins of masses above and below 10 Earth masses) as a function of their semi-major axis and of the central stellar mass.
Left: The known exoplanet population (divided into two bins of masses above and below 10 Earth masses) as a function of their semi-major axis and of the central stellar mass.
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(a) Galileo Solid State Imaging (SSI) false color data of Europa’s leading hemisphere and Tara Regio (credit: NASA, JPL/Caltech, PIA01295). (b) Illustration of chaos on Europa (credit: NASA, GSFC, PIA00840),
An artistic reconstruction of Earth during the Hadean eon (~4.5 billion years ago). Intense volcanic activity, heat from accretion, and frequent impacts kept the young Earth in a molten state.
Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured wildfires burning in northern Portugal on Wednesday, 30 July. Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution. The largest wildfires are in the Arouca region,
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