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  NASA's Cassini Watches Saturn Storm Choke on Its Own Tail

  January 31, 2013 — Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous ... > full story
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  New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System

  January 21, 2013 — Planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras – similar to Earth’s Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar ... > full story
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  Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars

  January 11, 2013 — Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story
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  Life Possible on Extrasolar Moons

  January 10, 2013 — In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Fifteen New Planets Hint at 'Traffic Jam' of Moons in Habitable Zone

  January 7, 2013 — Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars. Added to the 19 similar planets already discovered in habitable ... > full story
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  Planet Rings Could Be Behind the Formation of Solar System Satellites

  December 4, 2012 — Two researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our solar system were formed out of planet rings. The model, the only one of its ... > full story
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  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
• Extrasolar Planets
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  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
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  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 story

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  Snap the Stars to See Your Photo on ESA Portal

  November 16, 2012 — Have you taken an interesting astronomical photo this year? From planets and moons to the Sun, stars and galaxies, we’d like you to send us your images to feature as our Space Science Image of ... > full story

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