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  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
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  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
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  Pluto
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  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
• Stars
  Black Holes
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  New Chandra Movie Features Neutron Star Action

  January 7, 2013 — Unlike with some blockbuster films, the sequel to a movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is better than the first. This latest movie features a deeper look at a fast moving jet of particles ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Space Exploration
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  NASA's Kepler Gets a Little Help from Its Friends: Kepler's Follow-Up Observers Confirm New Discoveries

  January 7, 2013 — More than 2,300 exoplanet candidate discoveries have made it the most prolific planet hunter in history. But even NASA's Kepler mission needs a little help from its friends. Enter the Kepler ... > full story
• Galaxies
  Astrophysics
  Black Holes
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  Nebulae
   

  Detecting Dusty Clouds and Stars: New Radio Wave Technique Uncovers Shadows of Clouds and Stars in Milky Way's Center

  January 7, 2013 — Researchers have discovered a new tool for detecting dusty clouds and stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy: simply take a picture using radio waves. Unlike in the optical, X-ray and infrared ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Stars
  Extrasolar Planets
  Nebulae
  Astrophysics
  Astronomy
   
  

  Exocomets May Be as Common as Exoplanets

  January 7, 2013 — Astronomers have found thousands of potential exoplanets and many stars with massive disks of gas and dust that suggest planets are forming, but not much of the stuff intermediate between dust and ... > full story
• Stars
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  Kuiper Belt
  Pluto
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet, Analysis Finds

  January 7, 2013 — The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are beginning to find Earth-sized planets orbiting distant stars. A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  Jupiter
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
  Eris (Xena)
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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
• Stars
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  Wide Binary Stars Wreak Havoc in Planetary Systems, Astrophysicists Find

  January 6, 2013 — Astrophysicists have shown that planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits ... > full story

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