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Weather on the outer planets only goes so deep

What is the long-range weather forecast for the giant planets Uranus and Neptune? These planets are home to extreme winds blowing at speeds of over 1000 km/hour, hurricane-like storms as large around as Earth, immense weather systems that last for years and fast-flowing jet streams. Both planets feature similar climates, despite the fact that Uranus is tipped on its side with the pole facing the s

Space | Source: Weizmann Institute of Science | Views: 86 | Comments: 0
HiRISE Mars camera reveals hundreds of impacts each year

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across. Researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface in the past decade, using images from the spacecraft to determine when the craters

Space | Source: University of Arizona | Views: 91 | Comments: 0
New method of finding planets scores its first discovery

Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and transits (looking for dimming stars). A team at Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method th

Astronomy | Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Views: 133 | Comments: 0
Water on moon, Earth came from same primitive meteorites

The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found.

Space | Source: Case Western Reserve University | Views: 157 | Comments: 0
Birth of a black hole

A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole.

Astronomy | Source: California Institute of Technology | Views: 236 | Comments: 0
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Birth of a black hole

A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole.

Astronomy | Source: California Institute of Technology | Views: 236 | Comments: 0
NASA's Fermi, Swift see 'shockingly bright' burst

A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB 130427A, produced the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.

Astronomy | Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | Views: 244 | Comments: 0
Telling time on Saturn

A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of the Earth's magnetosphere.

Space | Source: University of Iowa | Views: 308 | Comments: 0
An anarchic region of star formation

NGC 6559 is a cloud of gas and dust located at a distance of about 5000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). The glowing region is a relatively small object, just a few light-years across, in contrast to the one hundred light-years and more spanned by its famous neighbour, the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8, eso0936 - http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0936/). Althoug

Astronomy | Source: ESO | Views: 281 | Comments: 0
Saturn's youthful appearance explained

As planets age they become darker and cooler. Saturn however is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age - a question that has puzzled scientists since the late sixties. New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed how Saturn keeps itself looking young and hot.

Space | Source: University of Exeter | Views: 297 | Comments: 0
Entire galaxies feel the heat from newborn stars

When galaxies form new stars, they sometimes do so in frantic episodes of activity known as starbursts. These events were commonplace in the early Universe, but are rarer in nearby galaxies.

Astronomy | Source: ESA/Hubble Information Centre | Views: 334 | Comments: 0
Rare galaxy found furiously burning fuel for stars

Astronomers have found a galaxy turning gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency, a rare phase of galaxy evolution that is the most extreme yet observed. The findings come from the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French Alps, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomy | Source: McGill University | Views: 353 | Comments: 0
Hubble brings faraway comet into view

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their clearest view yet of Comet ISON, a newly-discovered sun grazer comet that may light up the sky later this year, or come so close to the Sun that it disintegrates. A University of Maryland-led research team is closely following ISON, which offers a rare opportunity to witness a comet's evolution as it makes its first-eve

Astronomy | Source: University of Maryland | Views: 350 | Comments: 0
Jupiter's atmosphere still contains water supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact

In July 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) hit Jupiter and left visible scars on the Jovian disk for weeks. This spectacular event was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision in the solar system, and it was followed worldwide by professional and amateur astronomers.

Space | Source: Astronomy & Astrophysics | Views: 391 | Comments: 0
Using black holes to measure the universe's rate of expansion

A few years ago, researchers revealed that the universe is expanding at a much faster rate than originally believed — a discovery that earned a Nobel Prize in 2011. But measuring the rate of this acceleration over large distances is still challenging and problematic, says Prof. Hagai Netzer of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy.

Astronomy | Source: American Friends of Tel Aviv University | Views: 367 | Comments: 0
Grains of sand from ancient supernova found in meteorites

It's a bit like learning the secrets of the family that lived in your house in the 1800s by examining dust particles they left behind in cracks in the floorboards.

Astronomy | Source: Washington University in St. Louis | Views: 355 | Comments: 0
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