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• Extrasolar Planets
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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
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Exploration
  Space Telescopes
  NASA
  Space Station
  Space Missions
   
  

  Herschel Spacecraft Eyes Asteroid Apophis

  January 9, 2013 — Scientists using the Herschel Space Observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this past weekend. The data show the asteroid to be bigger than first estimated, and ... > full story
• Optics
  Space Telescopes
  Nebulae
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
  Stars
   
  

  Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Brings Remarkable Details to Light in Stellar Nursery

  January 9, 2013 — A new image reveals how Gemini Observatory's most advanced adaptive optics system will help astronomers study the universe with an unprecedented level of clarity and detail by removing distortions ... > full story
• Galaxies
  Astronomy
  Space Telescopes
  Astrophysics
  Stars
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Mapping the Milky Way: Radio Telescopes Give Clues to Structure, History

  January 9, 2013 — Surveys of the Milky Way are vastly increasing the number of known sites of massive star formation, tracing the structure of the Galaxy and giving clues to its history, including evidence of possible ... > full story
• Galaxies
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Black Holes
  Stars
   
  

  SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center

  January 8, 2013 — Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole ... > full story
• Eris (Xena)
  Extrasolar Planets
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
  Solar System
   
  

  Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B

  January 8, 2013 — Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary ... > full story
• NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Telescopes
  Stars
  Astronomy
  Space Missions
   
  

  NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

  January 8, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists used data from NASA's Spitzer Space ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Extrasolar Planets
  Stars
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
   
  

  Evidence of Asteroid Belt Around Vega

  January 8, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The discovery of an asteroid belt-like band of debris ... > full story
• Galaxies
  Astronomy
  Astrophysics
  Cosmology
  Nebulae
  Space Telescopes
   
  

  First 'Bone' of the Milky Way Identified

  January 8, 2013 — Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy -- a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Since we view the Milky Way from the ... > full story
• Computer Modeling
  Nebulae
  NASA
  Astronomy
  Space Exploration
  Astrophysics
   
  

  New Approach for Simulating Supernovas

  January 8, 2013 — Researchers are trying to bridge the gap between studies of supernova blasts and the remnants they leave behind. They hope to use a relatively new computer code to show more of the evolution from ... > full story

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