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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
“Even four years later, the images we took this past June showed the clouds haven’t returned to their former levels,” said Erandi Chavez.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
She is a student at Harvard University’s Center for Astrophysics who took part in the study while at UC Berkeley.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
“This is extremely exciting and unexpected,” Chavez said.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
She noted the finding was unusual “since Neptune’s previous period of low cloud activity was not nearly as dramatic and prolonged
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
Neptune, about four times wider than Earth, is the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our sun, NASA says
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
It receives sunlight with only about 0.1 percent intensity of our planet.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
For this reason, the researchers found it surprising that Neptune would be heavily influenced by solar activity.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
The planet also receives intense winds that can blow around clouds. The scientists looked at images captured by the different telescopes.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
They discovered clear patterns between seasonal changes in Neptune’s cloud cover and the solar cycle.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
The team found that during periods when the sun gave off more intense ultraviolet (UV) light, more clouds appeared on the planet two years later.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
De Pater said the newly discovered data provides "the strongest evidence yet that Neptune's cloud cover correlates with the sun’s cycle."
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
He added the findings "support the theory that the sun's UV rays, when strong enough, may be triggering a photochemical reaction that produces Neptune’s clouds."
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
Photochemical is a term relating to how chemicals are affected by light. The researchers are continuing to follow cloud activity on Neptune.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
They noted that the latest images taken of the planet, in June 2023, showed clouds started to return.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
The team says this finding further strengthens their evidence.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
This is because the scientists see a link between the increasing cloud cover and the release of intense UV light over the past two years.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
The researchers say further study is needed to confirm their latest results.
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
They say the research will be important not only for learning more about Neptune, but can also help scientists gain a better understanding of how similar planets outside our
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Study: Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to Solar Cycle
solar system behave. I’m Bryan Lynn.
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Study: New Evidence Suggests Earth-like Exoplanet May Hold Liquid Ocean
Researchers say new telescope observations suggest an Earth-like planet outside our solar system may hold a large liquid ocean.
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Study: New Evidence Suggests Earth-like Exoplanet May Hold Liquid Ocean
The exoplanet is known as LHS 1140 b. Astronomers believe it sits about 48 light years away from Earth.
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Study: New Evidence Suggests Earth-like Exoplanet May Hold Liquid Ocean
A light year is the distance light travels in a year about 9.5 trillion kilometers.
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Study: New Evidence Suggests Earth-like Exoplanet May Hold Liquid Ocean
The research led by astronomers at the University of Montreal in Canada shows the possibility the exoplanet might hold the right conditions to support
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Study: New Evidence Suggests Earth-like Exoplanet May Hold Liquid Ocean
some form of life. A study explaining the findings recently appeared in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Study: New Evidence Suggests Earth-like Exoplanet May Hold Liquid Ocean
The study is based on observations collected in December 2023 by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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