Sounds like Neil Degrasse Tyson is setting his sights on another one.
Trumpologist on
Pluto’s body isn’t even cold yet you monsters
LurkerZerker on
“Far closer to the Sun than it should be…” Aren’t a large number of exoplanets much closer to their stars than the planets in our solar system are to the Sun?
dreadington on
I really enjoyed this article. It does a good job of listing various theories of how mercury was formed, and then explaining why these theories don’t fit 100%.
fariqcheaux on
Those “shouldn’t be” headlines irk me. Natural reality is never wrong, so if your theory doesn’t agree with your observational evidence, your theory needs revision. “what we know…” no, no, no, “what we thought we knew”.
pleasethrowmeawayyy on
Wait till Mercury is downgraded to Sun’s moon.
Infninfn on
Seems poetic whenever science media claims something “shouldn’t exist” when in reality what we know about most of the universe is theoretical and inferred from unproven theoretical frameworks. It terribly misleads the random joes who because of it assume that science and humanity has already figured everything out.
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Sounds like Neil Degrasse Tyson is setting his sights on another one.
Pluto’s body isn’t even cold yet you monsters
“Far closer to the Sun than it should be…” Aren’t a large number of exoplanets much closer to their stars than the planets in our solar system are to the Sun?
I really enjoyed this article. It does a good job of listing various theories of how mercury was formed, and then explaining why these theories don’t fit 100%.
Those “shouldn’t be” headlines irk me. Natural reality is never wrong, so if your theory doesn’t agree with your observational evidence, your theory needs revision. “what we know…” no, no, no, “what we thought we knew”.
Wait till Mercury is downgraded to Sun’s moon.
Seems poetic whenever science media claims something “shouldn’t exist” when in reality what we know about most of the universe is theoretical and inferred from unproven theoretical frameworks. It terribly misleads the random joes who because of it assume that science and humanity has already figured everything out.