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The moon has a tail, and Earth wears it like a scarf once a month
The moon has a tail, and Earth wears it like a scarf once a month
Mar 10, 2021
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Mercury's sodium tail, a yellow-orange plume of sodium-rich gas extending over 24 million kilometers, brightens and dims as the planet orbits the Sun. It is most luminous when Mercury is ±16 days from perihelion due to the Doppler shift of sodium absorption lines. The current tail, visible as a "morning star" low in the southeast before sunrise, will peak in brightness on December 23. Observers can enhance visibility using a 589 nm filter. The tail forms as the solar wind scours Mercury's surfac
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Mercury's sodium tail, a yellow-orange plume of sodium-rich gas extending over 24 million kilometers, brightens and dims as the planet orbits the Sun. It is most luminous when Mercury is ±16 days from perihelion due to the Doppler shift of sodium absorption lines. The current tail, visible as a "morning star" low in the southeast before sunrise, will peak in brightness on December 23. Observers can enhance visibility using a 589 nm filter. The tail forms as the solar wind scours Mercury's surfac
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🔥 Mercury has a TAIL?! 🪐☄️ Yep, just like a comet! Mercury’s tail is made of sodium ions blasted off its surface by the Sun’s intense solar wind. Scientists predicted this back in the ’80s, but it wasn’t actually discovered until 2001! 🤯 And get this, Mercury’s tail stretches 24 MILLION km into space. That’s more than 60 times the distance from Earth to the Moon! 🌍➡️🌕➡️🌕➡️🌕 (you get the idea 😆) Space is WILD. What mind-blowing fact should I cover next? 👇 #SpaceFacts #Astronomy #Science
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🔥 Mercury has a TAIL?! 🪐☄️ Yep, just like a comet! Mercury’s tail is made of sodium ions blasted off its surface by the Sun’s intense solar wind. Scientists predicted this back in the ’80s, but it wasn’t actually discovered until 2001! 🤯 And get this, Mercury’s tail stretches 24 MILLION km into space. That’s more than 60 times the distance from Earth to the Moon! 🌍➡️🌕➡️🌕➡️🌕 (you get the idea 😆) Space is WILD. What mind-blowing fact should I cover next? 👇 #SpaceFacts #Astronomy #Science
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