Hubble Spots Another Blue Planet
Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away. The planet is…
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ARKYD Kickstarter Campaign Closing Tonight – Help Support Citizen Science
Planetary Resourecs are in the final hours of their crowdfunding campaign. They have a lot in store for you during their LIVE FINALE EVENT, beginning at 3:00…
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Alien planets are out there and Planetary Resources needs your help to find them! That’s right, the same high-powered telescope technology being used by Planetary Resources…
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star, a finding that may challenge…
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M101 in Ultraviolet Light
The face-on Pinwheel spiral galaxy seen in the image below is at ultraviolet wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. Also known as…
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At the end of May (2013), Planetary Resources – the company that plans to do asteroid mining in the not too distant future – a said…
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New Stars Bloom in Milky Way’s More Barren Territories
Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons have been spotted in images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. New views from NASA’s Spitzer Space…
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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Fly by Earth-Moon System on May 31st
NASA is tracking a large near-Earth asteroid as it passes by the Earth-Moon system on May 31st. Amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere may be able…
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Swift X-Ray Telescope Reveals New Behavior in Neutron Star
An artist’s rendering of an outburst on an ultra-magnetic neutron star, also called a magnetar. Astronomers using NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron…
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Planetary Resource’s dedication to prospecting asteroids with space telescopes is an interesting opportunity. Today (May 29th, 2013) they’ll be announcing something big that anyone can be…
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