News tagged with planet formation
Related topics: earth , stars , planets , solar system
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 Earth and Moon formed later than previously thought
The Earth and Moon were created as the result of a giant collision between two planets the size of Mars and Venus. Until now it was thought to have happened when the solar system was 30 million years old or ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Colony of Young Stars Shines in New Spitzer Image
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have their eyes on a hot group of young stars, watching their every move like the paparazzi. A new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the bustling star-making ...
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Hubble's successor one step closer to completion
(PhysOrg.com) -- A working replica of MIRI - the pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope - has just been shipped (16th March) from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s ...
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Mar 18, 2010 |
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Proposed Mission Would Return Sample from Asteroid 'Time Capsule'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2010 |
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How Earth Survived Birth: New Simulation Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the last 20 years, the best models of planet formation -- or how planets grow from dust in a gas disk -- have contradicted the very existence of Earth. These models assumed locally constant ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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How the Earth survived birth
For the last 20 years, the best models of planet formation—or how planets grow from dust in a gas disk -- have contradicted the very existence of Earth. These models assumed locally constant temperatures within a disk, and ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Massive Stars: Good Targets for Planet Hunts, Bad Targets for SETI
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on Sun-like stars. Those searches have proven successful, turning up more than 400 alien worlds. However, Sun-like ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Brown dwarf pair mystifies astronomers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible, according to an international ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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First Direct Imaging of a Young Binary System
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Infrared Image of Circumstellar Disk Illuminates Massive Star Formation Process
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from Ibaraki University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa University, University of Tokyo, Academica Sinica, and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Study of first high-resolution images of Pallas confirms asteroid is actually a protoplanet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Britney E. Schmidt, a UCLA doctoral student in the department of Earth and space sciences, wasn't sure what she'd glean from images of the asteroid Pallas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
Oct 12, 2009 |
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How to Make a Planet: Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. The observations, ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Odd discovery may help refine theories about how planets form
An international team of researchers has found a planet around another star whose orbit is steeply tilted from the plane of the star's equator, a finding that contradicts some theories about how solar systems form.
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Astronomers unveiling life's cosmic origins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Processes that laid the foundation for life on Earth -- star and planet formation and the production of complex organic molecules in interstellar space -- are yielding their secrets to astronomers ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2009 |
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