Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Most massive binary star identified

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    NASA, ESA, D. Lennon en E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI) By NOVA, Leiden Published: April 19, 2013 Astronomers have observed a b...

Dying supergiant stars implicated in hours-long gamma-ray bursts

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GRB 111209A exploded on December 9, 2011. The blast produced high-energy emission for an astonishing seven hours, earning a record as th...

Kepler discovers smallest "habitable zone" planets

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Fig : The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-62, a five-planet system about 1,200 light-years from Earth i...

Ice cloud over Titan's south pole

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Fig :  The recently formed south polar vortex stands out in the color-swaddled atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in this n...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Next Door Earth Like Planets

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This artist’s conception shows a hypothetical habitable planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have found that 6 p...

New Secrets of Super-Earths

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Fig : A diagram comparing Earth, at left, to a cross-section of a super-Earth on the right. The super-Earth has a relatively small rocky...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Glowing Titan in the Dark

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Figure : This set of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Titan glowing in the dark. Titan was behind Saturn...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Planets can form in the galactic center (Near a Black Hole)

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Fig : In this artist's conception, a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust (red) is being shredded by the powerful gravitational tide...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Dark matter near the Sun

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Fig: The high-resolution simulation of the Milky Way used to test the mass-measuring technique. Image credit: Dr. A. Hobbs By Roy...
Monday, August 6, 2012

NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image

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This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 ...