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The planet is the setting for most of the novel and movies based on the book. The second installment of the latest imagining from director Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two , opens in theaters March 1.
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Space.com on MSNDiscovery! Newfound exoplanet is 4th 'hot Neptune' ever foundNASA's TESS satellite has discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet closely orbiting its host star. It's just the fourth object of ...
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Space.com on MSNAstronomers discover exotic atmosphere on scorching hot exoplanet Cuancoá. 'Like finding a snowball that hasn't melted in a fire'The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...
Our galaxy apparently has a dearth of Neptune-size worlds that orbit close to their host stars — something astronomers term the "hot Neptune desert."This is a bit of an enigma.
The desert is located mainly in northern Africa, spread across 10 different countries (11 if you include Western Sahara, a disputed territory) and is therefore home to as many as 2.5 million people.
The radius, mass, and period of TOI-849b place it firmly in a zone that's called the "hot-Neptune desert"—an orbital region where the physics are such that large planets appear to very rarely form.
Here summer can be as hot as 70°C on the sand (also suggested in the book). Winters are just as extreme, as low as -40°C in the mid-latitudes and down to -75°C in the poles.
A new study finds that desert worlds — like the planet Arrakis in the sci-fi classic "Dune" — might be the most common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such ...
Trillions of galaxies and more space headlines 08:19. On one particularly hot planet, hundreds of light-years away from Earth, the forecast is cloudy with a chance of liquid iron rain.
Active Venus volcanoes make super hot planet even more unwelcoming ... Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert.
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