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Even 'Failed Stars' Can Form Planets
October 26, 2005 — Astronomers from German, American, and Italian research institutes have used NASA's SPITZER space telescope to discover that there is at least the beginnings of planet formation around brown dwarfs, ... > full story -
Tenth Planet Has A Moon
October 3, 2005 — The newly discovered 10th planet, 2003 UB313, is looking more and more like one of the solar system's major players. It has the heft of a real planet (latest estimates put it at about 20 percent ... > full story -
NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets
September 30, 2005 — Are there planets like Earth around other "suns" that might harbor life? Thanks to a recent technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project, the dream of answering those questions is no ... > full story -
Rapid-Born Planets Present 'Baby Picture' Of Our Early Solar System
September 10, 2005 — Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the University of Rochester has detected gaps ringing the dusty disks around two very young stars, which suggests that gas-giant ... > full story -
Largest Asteroid May Be 'Mini Planet' With Water Ice
September 9, 2005 — Observations of 1 Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini planet," and may contain large amounts of pure water ice beneath its surface. The observations by ... > full story -
Field Guide For Confirming New Earth-Like Planets Described
September 9, 2005 — Astronomers looking for earth-like planets in other solar systems -- exoplanets -- now have a new field guide thanks to earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis. Bruce ... > full story -
Hubble Makes Movie Of Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere
September 2, 2005 — New NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the distant planet Neptune show a dynamic atmosphere and capture the fleeting orbits of its satellites. The images have been assembled into a time-lapse ... > full story -
Dust-Enshrouded Star Looks Similar To Our Sun
July 21, 2005 — Astronomers report evidence of cosmic collisions surrounding a star similar to the sun, approximately 300 light years from Earth. The colliding objects could range in size from the largest asteroids ... > full story -
First Planet Under Three Suns Is Discovered
July 15, 2005 — An extrasolar planet under three suns has been discovered in the constellation Cygnus by a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology using the 10-meter Keck I telescope in Hawaii. ... > full story -
NASA Researchers Discover Planet With Largest Solid Core
July 1, 2005 — NASA researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory. "For theorists, the discovery of a planet with ... > full story
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