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1. Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death

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   ... 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

2. An XO For Valentine’s Day…

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   ... (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

3. 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

4. New Technique to Find Earth-like Exoplanets

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   ... 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

5. Kepler Goes Fishing and Reels in Two KOI

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   ... 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Accessible Astronomy: Touching the Night Sky

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   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

10. Jupiter's Moons

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    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

11. Kepler Discovers Planets-like Objects Hotter Than Stars

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    ... 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

12. Lifeless Prions Capable Of Evolutionary Change And Adaptation

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    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

13. 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

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

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    ... 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

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

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

16. Reexamining a Cataclysm

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    ... the migration of planets to their current orbits, it is widely held that the migration of Jupiter or one of the other gas giants migrations during this period, caused a shower of asteroids or comets to ... Tuesday, 15 December 2009

17. Is There Life On The Moon

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    ... in our own solar system, with Mars, and some moons of Jupiter and Saturn being considered likely hiding spots for microbes. ... Wednesday, 09 December 2009

18. Saturn's Hexagon Endures!

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    ... that give rise to the long-lived Great Red Spot of Jupiter." The hexagon was originally discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It encircles Saturn at about 77 degrees ... Wednesday, 09 December 2009

19. Exoplanet Not Really There?

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... the method of astrometry. That's great, except, they may not have found a planet after all. Researchers from JPL reported they found a Jupiter-like planet around a star smaller than our sun. But ... Tuesday, 08 December 2009

20. Earth's Moon

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    During its mission, the Galileo spacecraft returned a number of images of Earth's only natural satellite. Galileo surveyed the moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-1997. ... Monday, 07 December 2009