Mind the (Solar System's) Gap

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Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not all be coming from the massive geysers on its surface!

Hosted By: Hank Green

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Sources:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/931422
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj6928

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-evidence-of-persistent-water-vapor-in-one-hemisphere-of-europa
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094289
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01426-9 (paywall, free version at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.03570.pdf )


Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_System_Objects_in_Scale.jpg
https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pitch_perfect_in_DSHARP_at_ALMA.jpg
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2258/black-beauty-mars-meteorite/?category=small-bodies_meteors-and-meteorites
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-researchers-track-slowly-splitting-dent-in-earth-s-magnetic-field
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20645/protoplanetary-disk/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomical_unit.png
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/picturing-the-sun-s-magnetic-field
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/methanol-detected-for-first-time-around-young-star/
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21390/approaching-jupiter
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protoplanetary-disk.jpg
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https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1339.html
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/europa20130305.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-finds-evidence-of-persistent-water-vapor-in-one-hemisphere-of-europa
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganymede.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Space_Telescope_Grappled_by_Shuttle_Arm_(27512134324).jpg
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https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/71/water-vapor-plumes-over-europa/

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