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Dust Grains Highlight Path to Planet Formation
November 29, 2012 — Astronomers have captured a clear image of the protoplanetary disk of the star UX Tauri A. The team’s subsequent, detailed study of the disk’s characteristics suggests that its dust ... > full story -
Do Missing Jupiters Mean Massive Comet Belts?
November 27, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds. The comet reservoirs could have delivered life-giving oceans to ... > full story -
Dwarf Planet Makemake Lacks Atmosphere: Distant Frigid World Reveals Its Secrets for First Time
November 21, 2012 — Dwarf planet Makemake is about two thirds of the size of Pluto, and travels around the Sun in a distant path that lies beyond that of Pluto but closer to the Sun than Eris, the most massive known ... > full story -
Planet 'Devoured in Secret' by Its Own Sun
November 19, 2012 — A planet roughly 1.4 times the size of Jupiter is being consumed by its own star behind a shroud thanks to a magnesium veil absorbing all of certain light wavelengths, according to new observations. ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Identify a 'Super-Jupiter' Around Massive Star
November 19, 2012 — Astrophysicists have discovered a 'super-Jupiter' around the massive star Kappa Andromedae. It represents the first new imaged exoplanet system in almost four years, has a mass about 13 times that of ... > full storyMore: -
NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins Extension
November 15, 2012 — NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope's three-and-a-half-year prime mission and the beginning of an extended ... > full story -
Lost in Space: Rogue Planet Spotted? Orphaned World May Help to Explain How Planets and Stars Form
November 14, 2012 — Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have identified a body that is very probably a planet wandering through space without a parent star. This is the ... > full story -
Comet Collisions Every Six Seconds Explain 17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery
November 8, 2012 — Every six seconds, for many millions of years, comets have been colliding near a star visible to the naked eye, astronomers ... > full story -
Habitable Planet: New Super-Earth in Six-Planet System May Be Just Right to Support Life
November 8, 2012 — A new super-Earth planet that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life has been discovered around a nearby star by an international team of ... > full storyMore: -
Our Solar System Is Not Quite as Special as Once Believed, New Research Suggests
November 2, 2012 — Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system's planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems ... > full story
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