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Weather on the Outer Planets Only Goes So Deep
What is the long-range
weather forecast for the
giant planets Uranus and
Neptune? These planets are
home to extreme winds
blowing at speeds of over
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New Method of Finding Planets Scores Its First Discovery
Detecting alien worlds
presents a significant
challenge since they are
small, faint, and close to
their stars. The two most
prolific techniques for
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Sifting Through Atmospheres of Far-Off Worlds
Gone are the days of being
able to count the number of
known planets on your
fingers. Today, there are
more than 800 confirmed
exoplanets -- planets that
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Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planetary Debris: Signs of Earth-Like Planets Found
Astronomers have found signs
of Earth-like planets in an
unlikely place: the
atmospheres of a pair of
burnt-out stars in a nearby
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NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
May 6, 2013 — Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun. ... > full story -
Saturn's Youthful Appearance Explained
April 30, 2013 — As planets age they become darker and cooler. Saturn, however, is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age -- a question that has puzzled scientists since the late 1960s. New research has ... > full story -
Astronomer Studies Far-Off Worlds Through 'Characterization by Proxy'
April 26, 2013 — An astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may ... > full story -
TRAPPIST Participated in the Detection of Ten Percent of All Transiting Exoplanets Known to Date
April 25, 2013 — Among the many planets detected orbiting other stars (exoplanets) over the last twenty years, a little less than three hundred periodically pass in front of their star. This is what astronomers call ... > full story -
Looking for Life by the Light of Dying Stars
April 24, 2013 — Astronomers have now demonstrated that with the advanced technology available in the next decade we should be able to detect biomarkers like oxygen and methane in the planets that orbit dead stars ... > 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: -
Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet? A Response to Recent Name-Selling Campaigns
April 12, 2013 — In the light of recent events, where the possibility of buying the rights to name exoplanets has been advertised, the wishes to inform the public that such schemes have no bearing on the official ... > full story -
Ghostly Green Bubble: Detailed Image of Planetary Nebula
April 10, 2013 — An intriguing new picture shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). This is ... > full story -
Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc
April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story -
NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation
April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story
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