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    2 days ago

    Well yes, it does have to have chirality, I just meant it doesn’t have to contain any specific elements.

    I’m definitely no expert, but isn’t the D/L notation used in all of chemistry? Sometimes it’s written Δ/Λ, but that’s the same thing. Doesn’t it just describe a molecule’s geometry in a different way from R/S?





  • This image of shadows on the rings and others like it (see PIA11656 and PIA11655) are only possible around the time of Saturn’s equinox which occurs every half-Saturn-year (equivalent to about 15 Earth years). The illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun’s angle to the ringplane and causes out-of-plane structures to cast long shadows across the rings.

    Super cool to read about this. Thanks for sharing