Category: Astronomy
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
22 March 2012
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ScienceShot: One Black Hole Won't Ruin Your Day
If a primordial black hole collides with Earth, it shouldn't cause more than a small earthquake, according to new research
21 March 2012
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ScienceShot: Galaxy Is a Rare Gem
Astronomers discover an "emerald-cut" arrangement of stars
21 March 2012
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Mercury Gets a Dose of Extra Iron
Small planet's iron core is much larger than thought
29 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Clues From the Dark Side of the Moon
The lunar night may help reveal which planets have life
23 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Solar System's Origins Not So Special
The disk of gas and dust that formed our planets is just average in size
21 February 2012
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Some Planets Are Alien Invaders
Billions of stars may have snatched their most distant worlds
21 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Water World Is New Type of Planet
Hubble spies liquid planet with atmosphere composed mostly of water
10 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Is Venus Slowing Down?
Planet's rotation is about 6 minutes longer compared with 16 years ago
3 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Double-Star System Hosts Ancient World
Both suns are 2 billion years older than Earth
2 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Built by Black Holes?
Super-dense objects may help stars form
2 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Braking a Dead Star's Wild Spin
Magnetic fields may tame the most extreme pulsars
27 January 2012
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North Star May Be Wasting Away
Polaris could be casting off the equivalent of Earth's mass every year, observations suggest
20 January 2012
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ScienceShot: Death of a Comet Captured for First Time
Astronomers spot object evaporating in sun's atmosphere
19 January 2012
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ScienceShot: A Revealing Look at the Helix Nebula
New image reveals solar-system-sized clumps and strands of hydrogen gas
17 January 2012
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ScienceShot: Why So Many Homeless Planets?
New simulations may help explain why alien worlds are ejected from their solar systems
13 January 2012
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Podcast: Crashing Galaxies, Smart Lizards, and Meat-Eating Plants
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
11 January 2012
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Kepler Spies Smallest Alien Worlds Yet
Compact solar system resembles Jupiter and its moons
11 January 2012
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ScienceShot: These Stars Were Born to Be Wild
Suns formed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole
10 January 2012
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When Galaxies Crash
Most massive, distant galaxy cluster found
10 January 2012
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ScienceShot: Cradles in a Stellar Nursery
Astronomers spy clouds of dust hatching new stars
10 January 2012
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ScienceShot: New Telescope Captures Supermassive Black Hole
LOFAR images jets spanning more than 200,000 light-years
6 January 2012
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ScienceShot: The Star That Never Was
Clump of gas and dust never coalesced into a sun
5 January 2012
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Move Over, Santa, Here Come the Astronomers
Far north shows rich potential for ground-based optical astronomy
22 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Solar Wind Stifles Mercury's Magnetic Field
Modeling suggests solution to 37-year-old mystery
20 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Probing a Black Hole
Pulsars could reveal complex physics at event horizon
19 December 2011
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ScienceShot: A Bar at the Center of the Milky Way
Observations confirm presence of starry formation
16 December 2011
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Is Jupiter Eating Its Own Heart?
Some gas giants may have destroyed their cores
15 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Celestial Snow Angel
Hubble image depicts 'two-winged' nebula
14 December 2011
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Warning: Black Hole Dead Ahead!
In 2013, a gas cloud may plunge into the biggest black hole in the galaxy
13 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Don't Worry, Little Planet
Your star probably won't eat you, according to a new study
7 December 2011
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First 'Mini-Earth' May Have Been Spotted
Kepler telescope appears to have spied small world in new five-planet system
7 December 2011
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Giant Stars Bare Their Whirling Hearts
Large suns' cores spin much faster than their surfaces
5 December 2011
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Potentially Habitable Planet Is Christmas Present for Kepler Astronomers
Temperatures on newly discovered world could hover around 21°C
2 December 2011
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Video: Asteroid Vesta, Now in 3D
Get out your special glasses and check out the giant rock in all its pockmarked glory
1 December 2011
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ScienceShot: The Ultraviolet Glow of Newborn Stars
Two far-flung spacecraft glimpse a key sign of star birth
29 November 2011
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ScienceShot: She Just Lights Up
The gentle tug of another galaxy set stars twinkling in nearby Andromeda
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