Vega Seems to Have Its Own Asteroid Belt
This artist’s concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. Evidence for this warm ring of debris was found using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope,…
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Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B Revealed by Hubble
Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut, and of a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic…
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Weather Patterns on a Brown Dwarf Star Spotted by Hubble and Spitzer
This artist’s conception illustrates the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026. NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes observed the object to learn more about its turbulent atmosphere. Brown…
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Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Spots Recent Starbursts in Milky Way’s Center
Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the…
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Hydrocarbon Ice Forming on a Liquid Hydrocarbon Sea on Titan Suggested by Cassini
It’s not exactly icing on a cake, but it could be icing on a lake. A new paper by scientists on NASA’s Cassini mission finds that…
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