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How Do Minerals Form?

Collections of atoms, or minerals, form through geologic processes in planets. These processes, which happen over millions of years,…

The formation of rocky planets happens over billions of years, through a process called accretion. As a rocky planet…

The occultation video you point to looks completely normal, showing only a zoomed-in portion of the disk of the…

The bright planet Venus is an “evening star” these days, appearing in the western sky about 20 degrees above…

I suspect that what you were seeing was the bright planet Venus. The “ringing” structure you are seeing in…

Other than seeing that one of our nearest neighbors in the solar system had disappeared (which would take a…

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