Why the Kepler-56 Star Is Misaligned With Its Planets
A long-standing puzzle in the study of exoplanets is the formation of hot Jupiters – gas giant planets that snuggly orbit their host star. To explain…
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Cassini Gets New Views of Titan’s Lakes and Seas
With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft…
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ESA Bids Farewell to Planck Space Telescope
ESA’s Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of…
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Comet ISON Could Still Put on a Show
Observations indicate that the sudden exposure to strong sunlight when the currently dark side of the comet gets closer to the Sun could trigger huge outbursts.…
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Levenhuk Strike 90 PLUS Telescope Review
If you’re just starting out on your journey across the celestial sphere, the Levenhuk Strike 90 PLUS telescope will be the perfect instrument for you. It…
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Hunting Aliens in Our Own Backyard
We now have the technology to go snooping for extraterrestrials in our own backyard. No, not as close as little green men cutting up crop circles;…
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Planetary Building Blocks Rich in Water Found Around White Dwarf
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found the building blocks of solid planets that are capable of having substantial amounts of water. This rocky debris,…
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Patchy Clouds on Kepler 7b Identified by Kepler and Spitzer
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like…
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Sun Releases Magnificent Eruption
On Sept. 29th, a long filament of magnetism in the sun’s northern hemisphere erupted, producing a magnificent CME and the must-see movie above from NASA’s Solar…
Read the articleComet ISON May Be Comet of the Year, Not the Century
The countdown clock is ticking to comet ISON’s hair-raising passage around the sun on Nov. 28, as it grazes the sun at a distance of only…
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