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...system other than our own...[View of mountains against the sky and moon at night] In Star Wars VI we first meet the Ewoks living on the Forest Moon of Endor. The planet Endor itself is a gas giant, but the Forest Moon is a habitable world, peopled by small furry sentient creatures. A new study, published in Science Advances, reports signs of such an “exomoon” orbiting...

...Systems Methodology (Checkland, 1981; Checkland and Scholes, 1990; Checkland and Poulter, 2020). Their purpose is to gather in one place, on one sheet of paper, all the data about a complex messy situation that you have collected. Using pictures or drawings is helpful in being able to collect it all together on one piece of paper, so that you can see everything together....

...system formed...[Oxygen found on comet 67P by the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft] Scientists are perplexed by the detection of molecular oxygen in comet 67P's tail - a completely unexpected discovery. Discovery of molecular oxygen in comet tail forces rethink on how the solar system formed Scientists have for the first time detected molecular oxygen (O2) in a comet’s coma,...