Category: Astronomy
19 July 2012
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ScienceShot: How to Paint the Moon
The brush that splattered swirls of light across the lunar surface has been found
19 July 2012
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ScienceShot: Unusual Molecules Form Near White Dwarfs
Intense magnetic fields force atoms together in ways that wouldn't happen on Earth
18 July 2012
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Hubble Spots the Farthest Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen
Object flaunted its spiral arms just 3 billion years after the big bang
6 July 2012
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Space Weather Forecasted by South Pole Neutron Detectors
Team proposes new way to monitor solar storms
4 July 2012
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Poof! Planet-Forming Disk Vanishes Into Thin Air
Cosmic mystery may have happened in our own solar system
29 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Seven Minutes of Terror at Mars
Slowing the Curiosity Mars rover to a safe landing is making everyone nervous
29 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Gregarious Galaxy Groups
Astronomers see galactic gatherings attract one another
28 June 2012
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Entangled Secret Messages From Space
A test that sent a stream of entangled photons across Qinghai Lake was a proving ground for distributing quantum keys in space
27 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Weighing an Alien Planet
Poison gas ferrets out the properties of another world
27 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Magnetic Tornadoes Rage on the Sun
Pervasive swirling vortexes may heat the solar corona
21 June 2012
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Could a Whiff of Methane Revive The Exploration of Mars?
The controversy over claimed detections of martian methane could be settled come August
21 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Planetary Roommates Are an Odd Couple
Astronomers spy two very different worlds locked in close orbit
14 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Cosmic Collision Is Just a Trick of the Eye
Hubble captures two galaxies that appear to have slammed into each other
14 June 2012
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Brown Dwarfs Being Gobbled Up by Parent Stars
Paucity of "failed stars" foreshadows fates of Mercury and Venus
13 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Alien Earths Have Been Around for a While
Habitable planets may have formed billions of years before ours did
13 June 2012
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ScienceShot: A Dusty Starburst Near the Edge of the Universe
A mysterious galaxy, invisible to Hubble, is a lot farther away than astronomers had thought
12 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Hydrogen 'Bridge' Connects Two Galaxies
Close encounter forges quintillion-kilometer-long bond
6 June 2012
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Pluto's Moons Offer Hints of Alien Worlds
Distant satellites may reveal orbits of planets circling double stars
5 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Not-So-Tiny Bubbles in the Carina Nebula
Infrared wavelengths reveal an expansive stellar nursery
5 June 2012
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Do Solo Black Holes Roam the Universe?
New observations provide strongest evidence to date that black holes can be kicked out of their home galaxies
31 May 2012
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Why Is the Solar System So Bizarre?
Enigmas such as Uranus's skewed magnetic field continue to bedevil planetary scientists
30 May 2012
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The Milky Way's Oldest and Wisest Stars
Astronomer invents new technique to trace the origins of our galaxy
24 May 2012
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How Many Stars Never Make the Big Time?
Search for brown dwarfs reveals odds of stellar success
24 May 2012
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ScienceShot: Tippy-Top Target for Next Mars Rover
Mysterious rocks atop Mount Sharp could be volcanic
24 May 2012
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Homegrown Organic Matter Found on Mars, But No Life
Researchers found that the planet has produced its own organic matter for eons with no help from life
16 May 2012
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ScienceShot: Suns Spew Superflares
Kepler spacecraft finds hundreds of massive solar outbursts from stars like our own
10 May 2012
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Venus's Rare Sun Crossing May Aid Search for Exoplanets
Next month, skywatchers will get their last chance to see a rare mini-eclipse
7 May 2012
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ScienceShot: Hot Jupiters Are Loners
Gas giants orbiting next to their suns have no close planetary neighbors
2 May 2012
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Giant Black Hole Shreds and Swallows Helpless Star
Astronomers watch event unfold from 2.1 billion light-years away
2 May 2012
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Live Chat: SETI and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Talk with an expert about the latest efforts to detect signals from beings outside our solar system
25 April 2012
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ScienceShot: A Late Pummeling for Earth
Life had to cope with globe-ravaging impacts
25 April 2012
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Galaxies Defy Astronomers' Expectations
Ancient galaxies formed stars differently from the way they do today
23 April 2012
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No Love for Comet Wipeout
Findings argue against extraterrestrial impact snuffing out mammoths and early Indians
19 April 2012
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Has Dark Matter Gone Missing?
Our corner of the Milky Way is devoid of the stuff, one team of astronomers claims
18 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Jupiter, Born Too Late?
Kepler finds tentative evidence that older stars have larger gas giants
13 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Hubble Spots Auroras on Uranus
Atmospheric glows are small, short-lived, and faint
11 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Stardust in the Wind
Astronomers see how aging stars cast planet-forming dust grains into space
28 March 2012
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ScienceShot: Brown Dwarf Found South of Big Dipper
"Failed star" tags along beside naked-eye star
28 March 2012
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ScienceShot: 'Super Earths' Abound Nearby
About 100 potentially habitable rocky worlds live within 30 light-years of us
25 March 2012
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Findings Cast Doubt on Moon Origins
Giant impact hypothesis struggles to explain similarity between Earth and moon's composition
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