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Solar Splashdown Provide New Insights Into How Young Stars Grow by Sucking Up Nearby Gas
June 20, 2013 — On June 7, 2011, our sun erupted, blasting tons of hot plasma into space. Some of that plasma splashed back down onto the sun's surface, sparking bright flashes of ultraviolet light. This dramatic ... > full story -
Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained
June 19, 2013 — Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions -- a permanently shadowed crater on ... > full story -
Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth from Deep Space
June 18, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge ... > full story -
Mystery of X-Ray Light from Black Holes Solved
June 14, 2013 — Astrophysicists using high-powered computer simulartions demonstrate that gas spiraling toward a black hole inevitably results in X-ray ... > full story -
Flare Star WX UMa Becomes 15 Times Brighter in Less Than 3 Minutes
June 14, 2013 — Astrophysicists have detected a star of low luminosity which within a matter of moments gave off a flare so strong that it became almost 15 times brighter. The star in question is the flare star WX ... > full story -
Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction
June 13, 2013 — The keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around the nearby star TW Hydrae, located 176 light-years away in ... > full story -
Moon Radiation Findings May Reduce Health Risks to Astronauts
June 11, 2013 — Space scientists report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts ... > full story -
Astronomers Gear Up to Discover Earth-Like Planets
June 6, 2013 — Dust clouds around stars are thought to hide many undiscovered planets with conditions suitable for life, but observations have been hampered by the fact that only the brightest such clouds can be ... > full story -
2011 Draconid Meteor Shower Deposited a Ton of Meteoritic Material on Earth
June 6, 2013 — About a ton of material coming from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner was deposited in the Earth's atmosphere on October 8th and 9th, 2011 during one of the most intense showers of shooting starts in the ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Precursors to Aerosol Haze on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan
June 6, 2013 — Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have confirmed the presence of a population of complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, that later evolve ... > full story
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