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1. Newly Discovered Planet Could Hold Water

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... those of Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System. ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

2. Finally, a "Normal" Exoplanet

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... liquid water. Corot-9b orbits a sun-like star at a distance similar to Mercury – one of the largest orbits of any extrasolar planet yet found, and may have an interior that closely resembles Jupiter and ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

3. CoRoT-9b - A Temperate Exoplanet

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   Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 18, 2010 - CoRoT-9b, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet thats orbits its star every 95 days, is the latest discovery of the CoRoT satellite, a project in which the German Aerospace Center ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

4. See Spot On Jupiter. See Spot Glow

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2010 - New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

5. New Images Unlock Secrets of Jupiter's Red Spot

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   New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Image credit: NASA/JPL/ESO and NASA/ESA/GSFC ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

6. Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... massive (it's a gas giant, not unlike Jupiter), nor that its homesun (host star) is particularly unusual (it's rather similar to our own Sun), but it orbits very close to its homesun, and is ... Thursday, 25 February 2010

7. An XO For Valentine’s Day…

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... (Such as Jupiter) and as low as 0.01% for an Earth–sized planet. Searching for extra solar planets by detecting their transit is well within the possibilities of many today’s Earth based observatories ... Wednesday, 10 February 2010

8. An XO For Valentine's Day…

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... for a gaseous giant (Such as Jupiter) and as low as 0.01% for an Earth–sized planet. Searching for extra solar planets by detecting their transit is well within the possibilities of many today's Earth ... Tuesday, 09 February 2010

9. New Technique to Find Earth-like Exoplanets

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... of a Jupiter-sized planet nearly 63 light-years away. This new ground-based technique will enable the study of atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System, accelerating our search for Earth-like planets ... Wednesday, 03 February 2010

10. Kepler Goes Fishing and Reels in Two KOI

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... meeting in Washington, D.C. Four of the five new planets are larger than Jupiter, about 1.4 times its radius, and they all have orbital periods around their host stars of 3-5 days. Kepler 4b, the oddball ... Wednesday, 27 January 2010

11. The Difference Between Ganymede And Callisto

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    Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 - Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different ... Monday, 25 January 2010

12. One of Jupiter's Moons is Melted!

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    The two outer moons of Jupiter, Ganymede and Callisto with the cutaway showing the extent of melting caused by an astroid/comet bombardment. Credit: Amy Barr, SWRI Jupiter's two moons Ganymede and ... Monday, 25 January 2010

13. Mission to Jupiter

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    With its suite of science instruments, Juno will investigate the existence of a solid planetary core, map Jupiter's intense magnetic field, measure the amount of water and ammonia in the deep atmosphere, ... Tuesday, 19 January 2010

14. Accessible Astronomy: Touching the Night Sky

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Caption: A student uses the book "Touch the Universe" to learn about Jupiter. Courtesy, You Can Do Astonomy website. The stunning images provided by space- and ground-based telescopes are ... Friday, 15 January 2010

15. Jupiter's Moons

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei's improvements to the telescope enabled humanity to see Jupiter's four largest moons for the first time. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto--the so-called Galilean satellites--were ... Thursday, 07 January 2010

16. Kepler Discovers Planets-like Objects Hotter Than Stars

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... DC, each with some very unusual properties. But additionally, the space telescope has spotted some Jupiter-sized objects orbiting stars, and these objects are hotter than the host star. The science team ... Monday, 04 January 2010

17. Lifeless Prions Capable Of Evolutionary Change And Adaptation

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Jupiter FL (SPX) Jan 04, 2010 - Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, bits of infectious protein devoid of DNA or RNA that can cause fatal neurodegenerative ... Sunday, 03 January 2010

18. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – December 18-20, 2009

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! What a wonderful weekend we have coming up. On clear nights, the diamond-bright stars of the Winter constellations have been simply beautiful with the crown jewel of Jupiter ... Friday, 18 December 2009

19. Could there be Life on Jupiter and Saturn's Moons?

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... in San Fransisco, Francis Nimmo, who is a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, said that the conditions on Saturn's moon Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa may be just ... Wednesday, 16 December 2009

20. Icy Moons Of Saturn And Jupiter May Have Conditions Needed For Life

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... Jupiter. ... Tuesday, 15 December 2009