 A trio of super-Earths June 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they ... | |
 Swift satellite catches first 'normal' supernova in the act of exploding May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Thanks to a fortunate observation with NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers, for the first time, have caught a normal supernova at the moment of its birth--the first instant when an exploding star begins spewing ... | |
 Strange star stumps astronomers May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
 Plutoid chosen as name for solar system objects like Pluto June 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Almost two years after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly introduced the category of dwarf planets, the IAU, as promised, has decided on a name for transneptunian dwarf planets similar ... | |
Terrestrial Planet Formation in Binary Star Systems January 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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The list of confirmed extrasolar planets keeps growing, and has now passed two hundred members — almost all of which are gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. But the hunt is on for Earth-like worlds! With the successful launch ... | |
Models show one nearby star system could host Earth-like planet July 24, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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The steady discovery of giant planets orbiting stars other than our sun has heightened speculation that there could be Earth-type worlds in nearby planetary systems capable of sustaining life. Now researchers running computer ... | |
 The Case for Habitable Exoplanet Moons April 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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As scientists refine their methods, exoplanets are becoming easier and easier to detect. The current count is 163 planets orbiting 97 main-sequence stars, of which only one is even remotely Earth-like. All ... | |
 New Map Locates Metals in Millions of Milky Way Stars June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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An international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) has unveiled the most complete and detailed map yet of the chemical composition of our Galaxy. | |
 Ultraviolet gives view inside real 'death star' June 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Scientists have, for the first time, observed a flash of ultraviolet light from within a dying star giving vital evidence of how stars turn into supernovae. | |
 Cassini Image Shows Saturn Draped in a String of Pearls October 11, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Saturn appears dressed to the nines, "wearing" a strand of "pearls" in a stunning infrared image from the Cassini spacecraft that showcases a meteorological phenomenon. | |
28 new planets, 7 new brown dwarfs reported by California, Carnegie team May 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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The world's largest and most prolific team of planet hunters announced the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, increasing to 236 the total number of known exoplanets. | |
 Mars' dust storms may produce peroxide snow July 31, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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The planet-wide dust storms that periodically cloak Mars in a mantle of red may be generating a snow of corrosive chemicals, including hydrogen peroxide, that would be toxic to life, according to two new studies ... | |
A simple survey yields a cosmic conundrum July 31, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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A survey of galaxies observed along the sightlines to quasars and gamma-ray bursts--both extremely luminous, distant objects--has revealed a puzzling inconsistency. Galaxies appear to be four times more common in the direction ... | |
 XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe. | |
Pre-life molecules present in comets July 26, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Evidence of atomic nitrogen in interstellar gas clouds suggests that pre-life molecules may be present in comets, a discovery that gives a clue about the early conditions that gave rise to life, according to researchers from ... | |
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