News tagged with faint
Faraway Eris is Pluto's twin: Dwarf planet sized up accurately as it blocks light of faint star
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have measured the diameter of the dwarf planet Eris by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This was seen by telescopes in Chile, including the TRAPPIST telescope ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Neutron star bites off more than it can chew
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory has watched a faint star flare up at X-ray wavelengths to almost 10 000 times its normal brightness. Astronomers believe the outburst was caused by the star ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Recent news on the debate over Pluto's planethood
Earlier this month, Eris -- the distant world first discovered by Caltech's Mike Brown and colleagues back in 2005, paving the way for the eventual demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet -- passed fortuitously ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Researcher unravels one of geology's great mysteries
Danish researcher has solved one of the great mysteries of our geological past: Why the Earth's surface was not one big lump of ice four billion years ago when sun radiation was much weaker than today. Scientists have presumed ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2010 |
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NGC 4710 galaxy: Baffling boxy bulge (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as many people are surprised to find themselves packing on unexplained weight around the middle, astronomers find the evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzling. A ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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