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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Curiosty Mars Rover Uses Its Brush for First Time
This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows the patch of rock cleaned by the first use of the…
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Chandra X-Ray Telescope Movies Shows Neutron Star in Action
Unlike with some blockbuster films, the sequel to a movie from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is better than the first. This latest movie features a deeper…
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Brilliant Glow of Two Black Holes in a Spiral Galaxy Imaged by NuSTAR
This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. High-energy X-ray data…
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Kepler Space Telescopes Finds 461 New Planet Candidates
This collage includes a compilation of artist’s concepts depicting milestones from the Kepler mission. Image credit: NASA Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel NASA’s Kepler mission Monday announced…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 476: Multicolor Photometry of Triple System B Per Requested
AAVSO Alert Notice 476 Multicolor photometry of triple system b Per requested January 4, 2013 Dr. Bob Zavala (U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff) has requested AAVSO assistance…
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