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New warm exoplanet south of Neptune discovered with TESS

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked pre-publication trusted source proofreading OK! by Tomasz Nowakowski, Phys.org Full TESS detrended PDCSAP light curve of HD 21520 showing the four transits detected (magenta). Credit: Nies et al., 2024. × close to Full TESS detrended PDCSAP light curve of HD 21520 showing the four transits detected … Read more

Warm seawater flows under the “Doomsday Glacier” and it is as bad as it sounds

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Tidal pressure has been observed to push (relatively) warm water under the Thwaites Glacier, exposing a much larger ice surface to the warming pressure. The observations indicate that catastrophic sea level rise could come much sooner than almost everyone is preparing for. Rising temperatures contribute to higher sea levels by expanding existing water in the … Read more