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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. (2010-08-27)
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Astronomers find two large planets, plus possible super-Earth-size one
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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A team of three University of Florida astronomers contributed to the Kepler spacecraft's discovery of two Saturn-sized planets, plus a possible third planet with a radius just one-and-a-half times that of Earth, orbiting a distant star. (2010-08-27)
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Discovery of Saturn's auroral heartbeat
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn's aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn's upper atmosphere near the poles, pulses roughly once per Saturnian day. (2010-08-04)
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Caltech astronomer finds planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
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09/09/2010 02:00 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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Zapping Titan-like atmosphere with UV rays creates life precursors
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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The first experimental evidence showing how atmospheric nitrogen can be incorporated into organic macromolecules is being reported by a University of Arizona team. (2010-06-30)
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Quantum simulations uncoverhydrogen's phase transitions
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and is a major component of giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. (2010-06-24)
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Zooming in on an infant solar system
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. (2010-06-14)
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Exoplanet caught on the move
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. It is located about 60 light-years away towards the constellation of Pictor (the Painter) and is one of the best-known examples of a star surrounded by a dusty debris disc. (2010-06-11)
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Early Earth haze likely provided ultraviolet shield for planet, says CU-Boulder study
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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A new study shows a thick organic haze that enshrouded early Earth several billion years ago may have been similar to the haze now hovering above Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and would have protected primordial life on the planet from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation. (2010-06-04)
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Helium rain on Jupiter
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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When NASA's Galileo probe reached Jupiter in 1995 and began sending back data about the gas giant, astronomers were in for a surprise: Jupiter was unusually poor in helium and neon, the two lightest noble gases. (2010-03-23)
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Helium rain on Jupiter explains lack of neon in atmosphere
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09/09/2010 02:00 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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Cassini shows Saturnian roller derby
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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The seemingly serene orb of Saturn is in fact a gas giant with extraordinary patterns of charged particles and rough and tumble roller derbies for rings. (2010-03-19)
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Newly discovered planet could hold water
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09/09/2010 02:00 AM
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The Corot satellite strikes again with another fascinating planet discovery. This time, the newly discovered gas giant planet may have an interior that closely resembles those of Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System. (2010-03-19)
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International Team of Scientists Reports Discovery of a New Planet
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09/09/2010 02:00 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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