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Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System
(PhysOrg.com) -- Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Fantastic Voyage
By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Galileo's Jupiter Journey Began Two Decades Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft began what would become a 14-year odyssey of exploration 20 years ago this Sunday, Oct. 18. Galileo was humanity's first emissary to orbit a planet in the outer solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life
New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of Europa to support oxygen-based metabolic processes for life similar to that on Earth. In fact, there may be enough ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2009 |
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'Inverse Energy Cascade' May Energize Jupiter's Jet Streams
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter's intense and persistent jet streams could be triggered by small-scale energy events, a planetary sciences graduate student reports.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 06, 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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Scientists complete first geological global map of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede
Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of the Solar System’s largest moon - and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, icy satellite.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Craters on Vesta and Ceres Could Hold Key to Jupiter's Age
Crater patterns on Vesta and Ceres could help pinpoint when Jupiter began to form during the evolution of the early solar system.
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Jupiter had temporary moon for 12 years
Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu was captured as a temporary moon of Jupiter in the mid-20th century and remained trapped in an irregular orbit for about twelve years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Huge new planet tells of game of planetary billiards
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK's WASP ...
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Expanding Spot on Venus Puzzles Astronomers
(PhysOrg.com) -- The expanding spot discovered on Venus last month may not have garnered as much attention as the meteor impact with Jupiter, but its cause is certainly more puzzling. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 04, 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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Jupiter, solar system's 'big bully,' takes a punch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have been turning the world's most powerful telescopes toward Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, ever since Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered a new ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Hubble captures rare Jupiter collision
For the past several days the world's largest telescopes have been trained on Jupiter. Not to miss the potentially new science in the unfolding drama 580 million kilometres away, Matt Mountain, director of ...
Jul 25, 2009 |
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Surprise Collision on Jupiter Captured by Gemini Telescope
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter is sporting a glowing bruise after getting unexpectedly whacked by a small solar system object, according to astronomers using the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i. A ...
Jul 23, 2009 |
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