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The James Webb telescope just solved a decades-old Saturn mystery — the planet’s rotation rate was never actually coming from the planet at all
For more than 40 years, planetary scientists believed they knew how long a day on Saturn lasted. They were listening to the ...
For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an object that is orbiting a star at a distance, they would often assume it ...
rotation. Here’s the puzzle: That is about 6 minutes, or one percent, longer than the radio rotational period measured by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew by Saturn in 1980 and 1981.
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