New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

Conservation of angular momentum shaped their orbits into ... has shown that the major axes and orbital patterns of planets remain largely stable over billions of years. However, the origins ...

we find that the required angular momentum for the fast rotators is up to 1–3 orders of magnitude (depending on some assumptions) larger than that of the Sun. Planets of masses up to 5 times Jupiter's ...

Planets are created in protoplanetary disks surrounding newly formed stars. After the initial collapse of a molecular cloud (stellar nursery), conservation of angular momentum causes rotation to ...

Keywords: optical vortex, orbital angular momentum, modal purity ... In line with our mission to promote healthy lives on a healthy planet, we do not provide printed materials. All our articles and ...

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We can expect some stunning celestial events in 2025, including the Jan. 13 Wolf Moon and a remarkable planetary parade, where seven planets will align in the night sky, that starts tonight.