Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere suggests the planet contains far more ice than rock. #uranus #planetaryscience #astronomy

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531117-gas-from-uranus-reveals-it-has-an-icy-centre/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre

Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains more ice than rock, suggesting it formed more like Neptune than we thought

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The "Pink Planet" (GJ504b) is an extremely cold planetary-mass companion located 57 light-years from Earth that possesses an atmosphere enveloped in salt clouds. Roughly 25 times the mass of Jupiter, the object sits near the boundary between giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs.
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https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/asph06182601.html
JWST Discovers Salt Clouds on the Famous Pink Planet

Astronomers used the JWST to reveal exotic chemistry and unprecedented salt clouds in the cold atmosphere of the famous Pink Planet (GJ504b).

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NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted 

  Artwork: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star. The research team is presenting their study and preliminary findings Tuesday at the 248th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, […]

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/17/nasas-webb-catches-exoplanet-getting-roasted/

NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted 

  Artwork: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD …

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Wow, that's a lot of PhD and Postdoc positions opening up all at once (via https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.profile.planetarynews.bsky.social/status/1781582682588180053):

A new Collaborative Research Center SFB 1759 on "Habitability as a fundamental planetary process: Towards a paradigm shift away from our perception of the uniqueness of Earth" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) is being established at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, starting October 1, 2026.

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Watch out for the black hole!

SAPIENT.rocks rover getting sucked into the black hole space exhibit.

Took some time in memoriam at the Cape Town Science Centre on Friday to tinker with the rover and get some new things set up, got to interact with some excited learners from Parklands College and AIMS and connect about Planetary Science with robots.

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It's 2026. Do you know where your dissertation is?
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#PPOD: At first glance, it looks as though Saturn's icy moon Rhea towers over tiny Epimetheus against a breathtaking backdrop of rings and cloud tops. In reality, the two worlds are separated by hundreds of thousands of kilometers, creating a celestial illusion captured by the Cassini spacecraft in 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/CICLOPS

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Dr. Maddy Turner is a planetary scientist working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute. Maddy’s primary research focuses on remote structural mapping and quantitative geomorphology of planetary bodies, including the development and implementation of methods.

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