The nearest solar system to ours, National Geographic confirms, actually has a planet in it:
… Read the rest “We’ve got a neighbor (in Alpha Centauri).”The planet orbits very close to Alpha Centauri B—the smaller of two paired stars—and likely
BBC has one for the planet hunters – or, indeed, for Planethunters.org, which has just discovered a truly bizarre solar system using a pretty offbeat method:
… Read the rest “Amateur astronomers find planet with four suns.”The planet, located
Watch the skies next year, warns Scientific American, or you’ll miss something you’ll never see again:
… Read the rest “Once-in-a-lifetime comet comes around.”As it flares out of the distant Oort Cloud, the newly discovered comet
AsiaOne has more on the new planet made of hot, compressed carbon:
… Read the rest “Don’t tell DeBeers: Diamond twice the size of Earth found.”The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star 40 light years away in the constellation of Cancer and is moving
Once again, New Scientist delivers a headline I can’t beat. A statue the Nazis brought to Germany from Tibet has been found to have been made of stuff from space:
… Read the rest “Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.”Known as the ‘iron man’,
The Daily Galaxy says Saturn’s big moon, Titan, could be a life-making machine:
… Read the rest “Titan is making DNA. Or could be.”Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid water. But the orange
This hypnotic image seems to have traveled out of Asa Smith’s book, into David Rumsey’s cartography collection and from there into a Zazzle poster collection before winding… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850”
Saturn has more moons than many give it credit for.
Wikipedia user Cocu knows, though.
He writes: Orbits of the irregular satellites of Saturn. Image created with Celestia… Read the rest “Science Art: Irregular satellites of Saturn by Cocu.”
A new day is dawning, SpaceDaily.com has announced, with a sunny space balloon rising to new heights:
… Read the rest “Solar balloon wins NASA award”The “High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun” project, or HEROES,
…spinning between clusters of galaxies. That’s how the Christian Science Monitor describes the remarkable discovery of the scaffolding that holds together the universe… Read the rest “They found threads of dark matter”
Nature asks a question that gets more peculiar the more one considers it. A Japanese researcher looking at tree rings from two ancient cedars found unmistakable traces of a giant burst of… Read the rest “Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?”
National Geographic unveils Kepler’s latest discovery – a really black planet:
… Read the rest “According to Public Enemy, I should now be very afraid…”Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet,
No, McClatchy ain’t making this up. Members of SETI and NASA are using an airship to seek traces of meteorites – and, possibly, alien life:
… Read the rest “A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.”On Thursday, the scientists flew
This is an image of a transit of Kepler 16. What that means is that, from where we’re sitting, it looks like the 16th planet discovered by the Kepler mission is moving… Read the rest “Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt”
PhysOrg says our moon has lots of company – little “minimoons” are always stopping by for an orbital visit:
… Read the rest “The moon is not so lonely.”Mikael Granvik (formerly at UH Manoa and now at Helsinki),
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