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Caltech astronomer finds planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. (2010-07-28)
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Helium rain on Jupiter explains lack of neon in atmosphere
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie "Up." In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, Berkeley, scientists, helium condenses into droplets and falls like rain. (2010-03-23)
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International Team of Scientists Reports Discovery of a New Planet
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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An international team of scientists, including several who are affiliated with UC Santa Barbara, has discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter. The finding is published in the March 18 issue of the journal Nature. (2010-03-18)
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Sun glints seen from space signal oceans and lakes
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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In two new videos from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, bright flashes of light known as sun glints act as beacons signaling large bodies of water on Earth. (2010-01-06)
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The first portrait of a cool planet
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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A bull's-eye in the hunt for planets: astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758. (2009-12-08)
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Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. (2009-06-11)
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NASA/University team develops new method to find alien oceans
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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NASA-sponsored scientists looking back at Earth with the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission have developed a method to indicate whether Earth-like alien (extrasolar) worlds have oceans. (2009-05-27)
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New technique could find water on Earth-like planets orbiting distant suns
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. (2009-05-26)
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Creating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists today are able to examine hundreds of solar systems. (2009-05-08)
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Missing planets attest to destructive power of stars' tides
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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During the last two decades, astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. New research indicates they might have found even more except for one thing - some planets have fallen into their stars and simply no longer exist. (2009-04-28)
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Finding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought!
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Does a twin Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? Astronomers are getting closer and closer to finding an Earth-sized planet in an Earth-like orbit. NASA's Kepler spacecraft just launched to find such worlds. (2009-03-23)
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Astronomy's bright future
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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To mark UNESCO's International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), six leading astronomers from the UK, the US, Europe and Asia write in March's Physics World about the biggest challenges and opportunities facing international astronomers over the next couple of decades. (2009-03-02)
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Hubble finds carbon dioxide on an extrasolar planet
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. (2008-12-10)
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Beta Pictoris planet finally imaged?
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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A team of French astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered an object located very close to the star Beta Pictoris, and which apparently lies inside its disc. (2008-11-24)
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