Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics and Head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Hull The planets in our Solar System are heated by the Sun. Here on Earth, we ...

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Brad Gibson, Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for ...