Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

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The week is off to a steamy start, writes Don Paul, but weak high pressure and a very light north-northeast flow will drop ...

Higher-pressure atmospheres suppressed the formation of convection cells that could drive cloud formation and generate the necessary friction to produce lightning.

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In this educational film, Pete embarks on a journey to understand the causes and effects of wind after experiencing a plane crash. Guided by his friend Jack, he learns about indoor and outdoor ...

Those fluid patterns are called convection cells, a type of circular fluid flow set up by differences in temperature, pressure, or other forces. Convection cells are everywhere, from our coffee cups, ...

Convection cells are everywhere, from our coffee cups, oceans and atmosphere to the Sun’s atmosphere and even the clouds and dust in space. Convection cells can sometimes turn into a different flow ...

The star, R Doradus, is a red giant roughly 350 times the Sun’s diameter. Its convection cells are dozens of times the size of the Sun itself, and they rise and fall over a period of a few weeks.

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