Space
- Exoplanets May Be More Hospitable To Life Than Thought
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A new paper believes that planets outside our solar system- exoplanets- may be a lot more agreeable to life than assumed. The astrophysicists suggest that exoplanets are more likely to have liquid water and be more habitable than we thought. Scientists hav ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2015 - 4:41pm
- Dawn Spacecraft Will Introduce Us to a Strange New World
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NASA’s Dawn mission is closing in on a mysterious, unknown world in the asteroid belt. The dwarf planet Ceres named after the Roman goddess of agriculture awaits to unlock its secrets. So far, we’ve only had a glimpse of this enigmatic orb using the Hubbl ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 15 2015 - 7:13pm
- Name an Exoplanet Competition.
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The International Astronomical Union is holding a competition to assign common names. Astronomy clubs and other public groups may submit names. The general public will then get to vote on proposed names. The full process is as found on the website. ht ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 16 2015 - 4:32am
- EPIC: Nearby M Star Has 3 Earths, One In The Goldilocks Zone
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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has been hobbled by the loss of critical guidance systems but can still find good stuff- most recently a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth, one in the "Goldilocks" zone, a region where surf ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 2:06pm
- Galactic 'Hailstorm' 13 Billion Years Ago
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Two teams of astronomers have used computer models to look back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars- extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2015 - 12:30pm
- Extraterrestrial Dust On The Ocean Floor At Odds With Supernovae Hypotheses
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Scientists have analyzed extraterrestrial dust hat has settled on ocean floors to determine the amount of heavy elements created by the massive explosions. The dust is thought to be from supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system, and their co ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2015 - 10:14pm
- Hidden Magnetic Messages From Space Discovered
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Geologists have discovered hidden magnetic messages from the early solar system in meteorites measured using the PEEM-Beamline at the BESSY II synchrotron located in The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB). The information captures ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2015 - 1:45pm
- Oceans Give New Insights On Elements Made In Supernovae
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By Anton Wallner, Australian National University Our understanding of heavy element production in supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system, may need to change following some discoveries we have made looking not to the skies, but deep under ...
Article - The Conversation - Jan 24 2015 - 9:01am
- Jupiter's Triple Transit For 2015
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Jupiter's moons are giving us a show not seen since 2013: The orbital path of the moons is tilting edge-ion to the Earth and the sun, making it possible to watch the moons pass in front of each other, an occultation, or pass through another moon' ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2015 - 7:35am
- ESA Scientists Recollect the Historic Landing on Titan 10 Years Ago
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Ten years ago, on Jan. 14, 2005, some orange-y image, showing an alien scenery with lots of pebbles in the horizon, was at the center of ESA scientists’ attention. The snapshot of a distant world’s landscape was truly amazing. It was Saturn’s moon Titan w ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 25 2015 - 11:27am