Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place.
Oct 19, 2010
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Earth to have closest encounter with Jupiter until 2022
Been outside at midnight lately? There's something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade -- and it is dazzling. ...
Sep 21, 2010
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Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years
(AP) -- Better catch Jupiter next week in the night sky. It won't be that big or bright again until 2022. Jupiter will pass 368 million miles from Earth late Monday, its closest approach since 1963. You can ...
Sep 17, 2010
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Early exit for hot Jupiter due to deadly tides
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bad news for planet hunters: most of the "hot Jupiters" that astronomers have been searching for in star clusters were likely destroyed long ago by their stars. In a paper accepted for publication ...
Sep 10, 2010
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Objects impacting Jupiter detected first by amateur astronomers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere on June 3 and Aug. 20.
Sep 10, 2010
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Can we spot volcanoes on alien worlds? Astronomers say yes
Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales ...
Sep 07, 2010
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Sunlight spawns many binary and 'divorced' binary asteroids
(PhysOrg.com) -- The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is often depicted as a dull zone of dead rocks with an occasional wayward speedster smashing through on its way toward the sun.
Aug 25, 2010
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A new way to weigh planets
An international CSIRO-led team of astronomers has developed a new way to weigh the planets in our Solar System - using radio signals from the small spinning stars called pulsars.
Aug 24, 2010
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NASA telescope made in Utah set to finish survey
(AP) -- A telescope made by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab for NASA is on track to complete its first sky survey.
Jul 19, 2010
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Hunting for Fossils on Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa has a salty ocean where life could exist. A thick ice shell separates the ocean from our exploration vehicles, and it’s not known how far down we’d need to drill. But why drill at ...
Jun 17, 2010
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Hubble scrutinizes site of mysterious flash and missing cloud belt on Jupiter
At 22:31 (CEST) on 3 June 2010 Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley saw a two-second-long flash of light on the disc of Jupiter. He was watching a live video feed from his telescope. In the Philippine ...
Jun 16, 2010
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Jupiter Impact: Mystery of the Missing Debris
On June 3rd, 2010, something hit Jupiter. A comet or asteroid descended from the black of space, struck the planet's cloudtops, and disintegrated, producing a flash of light so bright it was visible in backyard t ...
Jun 15, 2010
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The Atmosphere of Io
(PhysOrg.com) -- Io is one of the four moons of Jupiter that Galileo discovered after he turned his new telescope heavenward. They shocked him and his contemporaries because they demonstrated that heavenly ...
Jun 14, 2010
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Six new planets discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including Oxford University scientists, has discovered six diverse new planets, from 'shrunken-Saturns' to 'bloated hot Jupiters', as well a rare brown dwarf with 60 ...
Jun 14, 2010
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The Chance for Life on Io
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Could it also be a habitat for life?
Jun 10, 2010
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