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Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact
April 23, 2013 — Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ... > full story -
Universality of Circular Polarization in Star And Planet-Forming Regions: Implications for the Origin of Homochirality of Life
April 23, 2013 — A research team in Japan has performed deep imaging linear and circular polarimetry of the 'Cat's Paw Nebula' (NGC 6334) located in the constellation Scorpius, successfully detecting high degrees of ... > full story -
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story -
Grains of Sand from Ancient Supernova Found in Meteorites: Supernova May Have Been the One That Triggered the Formation of the Solar System
April 22, 2013 — Scientists have discovered two tiny grains of silica (SiO2; the most common constituent of sand) in meteorites that fell to earth in Antarctica. Because of their isotopic composition these two grains ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Unique Cluster: One of the Hidden 15
April 19, 2013 — Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters. These clusters, as the name suggests, were discovered in survey plates from the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the ... > full story -
Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'
April 18, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ... > full storyMore: -
X-Ray View of a Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry
April 17, 2013 — A long Chandra observation reveals the SN 1006 supernova remnant in exquisite detail. By overlapping 10 different pointings of Chandra's field-of-view, astronomers have stitched together a cosmic ... > full story -
How to Target an Asteroid
April 17, 2013 — Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space ... > full story -
NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves
April 16, 2013 — To tease out what happens at that boundary of the magnetosphere and to better understand how radiation and energy from the sun can cross it and move closer to Earth, NASA launches spacecraft into ... > full story -
Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?
April 15, 2013 — By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's ... > full story
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