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Cloud Behavior Expands Habitable Zone of Alien Planets
July 1, 2013 — A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the ... > full story -
Rocket-Launched Camera Reveals Highways and Sparkles in the Solar Atmosphere
June 30, 2013 — Using an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket, an international team of scientists have captured the sharpest images yet of the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The team discovered ... > full story -
NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized
June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story -
Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars
June 27, 2013 — Gemini Observatory's Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of ... > full story -
NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'
June 27, 2013 — Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar ... > full story -
First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered
June 26, 2013 — All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars are born in small groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms, where stars jostle with thousands of neighbors while strong ... > full story -
Survivor of Stellar Collision Is New Type of Pulsating Star
June 26, 2013 — Astronomers have observed the remnant of a stellar collision and discovered that its brightness varies in a way not seen before on this rare type of star. By analyzing the patterns in these ... > full story -
Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star: Gliese 667c Reexamined
June 25, 2013 — Astronomers have combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking three of these planets are super-Earths lying in the zone ... > full story -
Five Years of Stereo Imaging for NASA's TWINS
June 24, 2013 — Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the sun, and a vast zoo of waves and ... > full story -
Sun Emits a Solstice CME
June 22, 2013 — On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth ... > full story
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