News tagged with giant planets
Related topics: stars , planets , solar system , jupiter
Most earthlike exoplanet started out as a gas giant
The most earthlike planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a Saturn-sized gas giant, according to research presented today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington.
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In All The Galaxy, Just 15 Percent Of Solar Systems Are Like Ours
(PhysOrg.com) -- In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is.
Jan 05, 2010 |
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New Horizons Crosses a Threshold: Closer to Pluto than Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- The new year approaches with New Horizons zooming past another milestone: the NASA spacecraft is now closer to target planet Pluto than its home planet, Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 30, 2009 |
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A New Method of Estimating Stellar Distances
(PhysOrg.com) -- The star Chi Cygni is located about 550 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. It is a notable star because, unlike the sun which still burns hydrogen ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Avatar's moon Pandora could be real
In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. ...
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Chinese astronomers have discovered a giant planet close to the exotic binary star system QS Virginis. Although dormant now, in the future the two stars will one day erupt in a violent ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery
An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun.
Dec 03, 2009 |
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On the road to fusion energy, an accelerator to study warm dense matter
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it's hot in here, but to a physicist it's merely warm - warm dense matter, ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Ganymede makes big impression on Jupiter's auroral lightshows (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of features in Jupiter’s spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost ...
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Saturn to Pull Celestial Houdini on August 11
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1918, magician extraordinaire Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience of over 5,200 at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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What Hit Jupiter?
(PhysOrg.com) -- It began with a furrowed brow, a moment of puzzlement, quickly dismissed.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Wind estimate 'shortens Saturn's day by five minutes'
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way of detecting how fast large gaseous planets are rotating suggests Saturn’s day lasts 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds - over five minutes shorter than previous estimates that ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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World's largest laser opens (w/Video)
Scientists for decades have been hunting for ways to harness the enormous force of the sun and stars to supply energy here on Earth. The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory may spark the light ...
May 29, 2009 |
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Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at Last
(PhysOrg.com) -- A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known.
May 28, 2009 |
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Metal Becomes Transparent Under High Pressure
An international team of scientists have discovered a transparent form of the element sodium (Na). The team, led by Artem Oganov, Professor of Theoretical Crystallography at Stony Brook University, and Yanming ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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