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"Uranus and Neptune: Cloudy with a chance of diamonds" and more...

Uranus and Neptune: Cloudy with a chance of diamonds : Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recreated the ice giants’ diamond rain. (Alison KLESMAN, Astronomy Magazine ; August 23, 2017) Scientists Create "Diamond Rain" that Forms the Interior of Icy Giant Planets (Press Release, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - Stanford University ; August 21, 2017) https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-08-21-scientists-create-diamond-rain-forms-interior-icy-giant-planets.aspx More on Neptune and Uranus... Carbon precipitation from heavy hydrocarbon fluid in deep planetary interiors (LOBANOV  et al. , 2013) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3446.pdf Chemical Processes in the deep interior of Uranus (CHAU et al ., 2011) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/W_Nellis/publication/49857484_Chemical_processes_in_the_deep_interior_of_Uranus/links/55a1d7e608aec9ca1e63e3e8.pdf

Release of U. S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Draft Report

U. S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report [ Third Order Draft (TOD);  June 28, 2017] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914641/Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.pdf Retrieved from the following published New York Times article : Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report (Lisa FRIEDMAN, New York Times ; August 7, 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html

Gravity waves detected in Sun’s interior reveal rapidly rotating core / Space Science / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA

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Gravity waves detected in Sun’s interior reveal rapidly rotating core / Space Science / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA : Scientists using the ESA/NASA SOHO solar observatory have found long-sought gravity modes of seismic vibration that imply the Sun’s core is rotating four times faster than its surface. [Space Science, European Space Agency (ESA) ; 1 August 2017] Research Publications : Asymptotic g modes:  Evidence for a rapid rotation of the solar core (FOSSAT  et al. , 2017) https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2017/08/aa30460-17.pdf Tracking Solar Gravity Modes:  The Dynamics of the Solar Core (GARCIA et al ., 2007) http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~laszlo/kepek/nap_gmodus.pdf Website : Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) ( National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA )] https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ Video Presentation: T hierry APPOURCHAUX - The History of Solar g-Mode Detection ( CollqueAHG2013 ; July 9, 2013)