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Giant Planets Offer Help in Faster Research on Material Surfaces
June 5, 2013 — New, fast and accurate algorithm, based on the mathematical formalism used to model processes accompanying interaction of light with gas planet atmospheres, is a major step towards better ... > full story -
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Life-Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites
June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but research now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites. In a new study, ... > full story -
Saturn's Metal-Poor 'Cousin' Discovered With Little Telescope
June 4, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered a hot Saturn-like planet in another solar system 700 light-years ... > full story -
Cosmic CSI Team Focuses on Burned-out Stars
June 4, 2013 — Like a CSI unit, a team of astronomers at observatories worldwide has been digging around in the innards of dead stars, collecting evidence on how they died. The Whole Earth Telescope is shedding new ... > full story -
Hubble Maps 3-D Structure of Ejected Material Around Erupting Star
June 4, 2013 — A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova. Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe the light ... > full story -
Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets
June 3, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and ... > full story -
Best Ultraviolet Maps of the Nearest Galaxies
June 3, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major ... > full story -
Solar System's Milky Way Neighborhood Gets More Respect
June 3, 2013 — Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. New research indicates that the Local ... > full story -
Cosmic Rays: Galactic Knee and Extragalactic Ankle
June 3, 2013 — A new experiment has yielded the important result that a characteristic bend in the energy spectrum of high-energy cosmic rays, also called "knee", is located at different energies for light and ... > full story -
Lightest Exoplanet to Be Directly Observed So Far? Faint Object Moves Near Bright Star
June 3, 2013 — A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has imaged a faint object moving near a bright star. With an estimated mass of four to five times that of Jupiter, ... > full story
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