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1. Did Kepler Scientist Leak Data? Um, Not Really

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   ... from as small as Earth to around the size of Jupiter, with the majority having radii less than half that of Jupiter. This is such incredible news, especially when you factor in that the data was from ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

2. Comet Whacked Neptune 230 Years Ago

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   ... PACS (Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer) instrument, along with what was learned from observations from when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter sixteen years ago. (...) Read the rest of Comet ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

3. Comet Whacked Neptune 200 Years Ago

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   ... PACS (Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer) instrument, along with what was learned from observations from when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter sixteen years ago. (...) Read the rest of Comet ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

4. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Brown Dwarfs Are Magnetic Too.

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   Brown dwarf TWA 5B compared with the Sun and Jupiter. Although brown dwarfs are similar in size to Jupiter, they are much more dense and massive - between 13 and 80 Jupiter masses. Credit: chandra.harvard.edu ... Saturday, 17 July 2010

5. Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet

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   ... is behaving like a Jupiter-sized comet, losing its atmosphere in a huge plume due to the powerful solar wind of its too-close star.(...) Read the rest of Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

6. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 9-11, 2010

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   ...  Be sure to keep an eye on Saturn and Mars as they draw closer together and look for bright Jupiter in the morning skies! Whenever you're ready? Grab your optics and I'll see you in the backyard… ... Friday, 09 July 2010

7. Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet

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   Artists impression of the 'hot Jupiter' HD209458b, which has incredible storms. Credit: ESO. Likely, future interstellar flights will not include the exoplanet HD209458b as a featured get-away destination. ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

8. Hubble Delves into Two Recent Jupiter Mysteries

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   Detailed observations made by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have led researchers to believe that the flash of light seen on Jupiter on 3 June was a meteor. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. H. Wong (University ... Wednesday, 16 June 2010

9. Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets

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   ... recently found six new extrasolar planets, which contain an odd assortment of new worlds. They include shrunken-Saturns to bloated hot Jupiters, as well a rare brown dwarf with 60 times the mass of Jupiter. ... Monday, 14 June 2010

10. Needed: Plutonium-238

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    ... has been requested for the Department of Energy to get start new production. Plutonium-238 has powered dozens of spacecraft, including the Voyager probes, the Galileo mission to Jupiter, and the Cassini ... Wednesday, 09 June 2010

11. Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter

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    Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 04, 2010 - Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

12. New Impact on Jupiter

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    New Jupiter Impact on June 3, 2010. Credit: by Anthony Wesley In an incredible coincidence where a paper was released today about the 2009 impact event on Jupiter, the same amateur astronomer who captured ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

13. New Hubble Images Zoom In on Asteroid Impact on Jupiter

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    These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal an impact scar on Jupiter fading from view over several months between July 2009 and November 2009. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. H. Wong (University of California, ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

14. Europa's Churn Leads To Oxygen Burn

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    Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2010 - There may be enough oxygen in the waters of Jupiter's moon Europa to support millions of tons worth of fish, according to a new study. While no one is suggesting ... Monday, 31 May 2010

15. 'Out Of Whack' Planetary System

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    ... also will be published in the June 1 edition of the Astrophysical Journal. For just over a decade, astronomers have known that three Jupiter-type planets orbit the yellow-white dwarf star Upsilon Andromedae. ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

16. 'First Light' As SOFIA Completes Observation Flight

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    ... crowning achievement of the night: scientists recorded images of the Messier 82 (M82) galaxy and of Jupiter, at wavelengths unobservable by ground- or space-based telescopes. The composite image of Jupiter ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

17. Weird Orbits Of Neighbors Can Make 'Habitable' Planets Not So Habitable

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    ... zone could be expected to remain within that zone, said Rory Barnes, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in astronomy. Adding a planet comparable to Jupiter to the system, however, and giving ... Wednesday, 26 May 2010

18. Get It While it's Hot! Star Devours Planet

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    ... twice Jupiter's radius and is spilling material onto the star. The planet is 40 percent more massive than Jupiter. This effect of matter exchange between two stellar objects is commonly seen in close ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010

19. WISE Makes Progress On Its Space Rock Catalog

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    ... hang out in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter, but a small number are near-Earth objects - asteroids and comets with orbits that pass within about 48 million kilometers (30 million miles) of Earth's ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010

20. STEREO, SOHO Spacecraft Catch Comet Diving Into Sun

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    ... Samuel Krucker and Pascal Saint-Hilaire, concluded that the comet was probably one of the Kreutz family of comets, a swarm of Trojan or Greek comets ejected from their orbit in 2004 by Jupiter, and that ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010