NASA’s WISE Finds Only a Handful of Brown Dwarf Stars in Our Celestial Backyard
Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out…
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Mining Asteroids With Planetary Resources – Progress So Far
Just received this statement from Planetary Resources about what’s been happening since they announced the formation of their company a few weeks ago, so things are…
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Mars Crater Shows Evidence for Climate Evolution
ESA’s Mars Express has provided images of a remarkable crater on Mars that may show evidence that the planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate…
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The First Objects in the Universe Burned Furiously
The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA’s Spitzer…
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Massive Black Hole Gets Thrown Out of Home Galaxy
Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour.…
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Pillars and Bubbles in the Carina Nebula
Giant bubbles, towering pillars and cascading clouds of dust and gas fill the star-forming nursery of the Carina Nebula seen here in a stunning new view…
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Astronomers Worldwide Wowed by Transit of Venus
Astronomers around the world looked to the sky on the night of June 5th and morning of June 6th to observe Venus as it passed across…
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What Is the Mysterious “Arc of Venus”?
When Venus transited the sun on June 5th and 6th, an armada of spacecraft and ground-based telescopes were on the lookout for something elusive and, until…
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NASA will host a 3-day NASA Social for 25 of its social media followers Aug. 3-5 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 459: Monitoring of RU Peg Requested for Swift Observations
AAVSO Alert Notice 459 Monitoring of RU Peg requested for Swift observations June 6, 2012 Dr. Koji Mukai (Universities Space Research Association/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)…
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