Extrasolar Planet Videos

• Stars
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  Astronomers Explain New Double Star In Western Sky

  Astronomers say that this July planetary orbits have lined up so that people on Earth can see a rare convergence of Venus and Saturn in the night sky. Just after sunset they will appear in the west, ... > more
• Solar System
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
  Extrasolar Planets
  Pluto
   
  

  Planetary Scientists To Find Out Composition, Structure Of Asteroids

  A NASA mission to two asteroids, one formed of lava and the other potentially containing water, will help find clues about the formation of our solar ... > more
• Extrasolar Planets
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Solar System
  Solar Energy
   
  

  Astronomers Need Your Help To Find Planets Outside Our Solar System

  A new distributed computing program analyzes data to characterize new planetary systems by computing the light reflected from nearby extrasolar planets and the wobble the planets cause in their stars ... > more
• Moon
  Pluto
  Jupiter
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Saturn
   
  

  Astronomers Explain Science Behind Folk Saying

  A blue moon is when two full moons occur within the same month, as dictated by the satellite's 29.5 day orbit around the earth. A full moon is that point in the moon's orbit when it's on the back ... > more
• Black Holes
  Astronomy
  Astrophysics
  Galaxies
  NASA
  Space Telescopes
   
  

  Astronomers Spot Black Holes Using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory

  Not even light can escape a black hole's grip, but gas falling into a black hole can heat up and become an intense source of X-rays, at temperatures up to 1,000 times hotter than the sun. Astronomers ... > more
• Sun
  Solar Flare
  Astronomy
  Stars
  Jupiter
  Black Holes
   
  

  With Precautions, Anyone Can Observe the Sun Safely

  Sun spots are cooler regions on the sun's surface held up by magnetic fields, and they can have dramatic effects on space weather, disrupting satellite communications. Astrophysicists track them with ... > more
• Nebulae
  Space Telescopes
  NASA
  Astrophysics
  Astronomy
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Physicists Spot Interstellar Shock Wave Using Spitzer Telescope

  The spirals of a "space tornado" may be the first step in the formation of a new star. The structure, observed with NASA's Spitzer infrared telescope, is a shock wave created by a jet of material ... > more
• Albert Einstein
  Space Telescopes
  Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Saturn
  Astrophysics
   
  

  Astronomers Discover Eight New Gravitational Lenses with Hubble Telescope

  Images from the Hubble telescope reveal eight new Einstein rings, joining only three others previously known. Einstein rings are pairs of galaxies, with a foreground galaxy bending the light of a ... > more
• Solar Flare
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Sun
  Northern Lights
  Atmosphere
  Astronomy
   
  

  Space Physicists and Atmospheric Scientists Can Now Predict Disruptions Caused by the Sun's Coronal Mass Ejections

  Solar activity can wreak havoc in communications systems -- particularly during coronal mass ejections, when plumes of electrically charged particles hit earth's atmosphere. Scientists can now track ... > more
• Moon
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Jupiter
   
  

  Planetary Scientists Use Hubble to Spot Oxygen-Rich Soil on Moon

  The Moon's surface is covered with oxygen-rich soils, Hubble Space Telescope images show. Planetary scientists believe the oxygen could be tapped to power rockets and be a source of oxygen to breathe ... > more

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