Thanks to new technology developed in part at the University of Arizona, astronomers can now view objects in the sky at unprecedented sharpness in visible light.…
Read the articleIn 1948, astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated that “fusion jets” could be used by a future civilization to navigate our sun…
Read the articleNASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 482 Monitoring requested for dust production study in developing planetary systems April 4, 2013 Huan Meng and Dr. George Rieke (University of Arizona)…
Read the articleThe Cassini spacecraft observes three of Saturn’s moons set against the darkened night side of the planet. Saturn is present on the left this image but…
Read the articleESA’s Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star…
Read the articleA star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding…
Read the articleUsing ESA’s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds. The comet reservoirs could…
Read the articleNASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s three-and-a-half-year prime mission and the beginning…
Read the articleAstronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. The exoplanet candidate, called UCF-1.01, is located…
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