Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Search for Extraterrestrials Narrows

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A large number of experts participated recently at the Astrobiology Science Conference, which was held near Houston, Texas. At the meeting...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Discovers Extrasolar Planet Lacking Methane

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PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet -- it lacks methane, an ingredie...
Friday, April 16, 2010

New Technique Can Spot Smaller Exoplanets

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Image comment: This image of the planets in the HR8799 system were found using vortex coronagraph Image credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Paloma...
Monday, April 12, 2010

New Method of Classifying Planets Proposed

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Image comment: Artist's drawing depicting the dwarf planet Haumea, with its tow moons. The body has a prolonged shape that puzzles astro...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Is densest Kuiper belt object a wayward asteroid?

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Quaoar, a large object in the outer solar system, is mostly made of rock, unlike its icy neighbours (Illustration: NASA/G. Bacon/STScI) A g...
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Happy 50th Birthday SETI

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SETI's Allen Telescope Array via SETI Institute Fifty years ago today, on April 8th, 1960, a Cornell astronomy profe...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

A Planet-Like Companion Growing up in the Fast Lane

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Hubble Space Telescope (top) and Gemini North (bottom) images of the 2M J044144 system showing the smaller companion at 8:00 position. The ...
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