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Images provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the collision between Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the Third Red Spot has all but destroyed the latter. All that was left behind was only a deformed and pale structure that is likely to be sucked completely into the giant anticyclone that has been... |
19 July 2008
05:54 GMT |
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As predicted when it was first discovered on May 9 this year, Jupiter's third red giant storm collided last week with the Great Red Spot and the Red Spot. The outcome of the event is not known yet, since Jupiter's position on the night sky impeded astronomers from carrying out any conclusive observations. "... |
10 July 2008
04:10 GMT |
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What was until now a party of one appears to be turning into a rather crowded gathering of red spots in the Jovian atmosphere. The Great Red Spot and its little sister, the Little Red Spot anticyclone, were joined relatively recently by yet another storm that turned from bright white to red, in what astronomers like ... |
26 May 2008
03:56 GMT |
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The solar system's youngest storm, the Little Red Spot on Jupiter, has the highest wind speeds ever detected on any other planet, according to a team of researchers conducting observations with NASA' New Horizon spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large T... |
22 May 2008
02:52 GMT |
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Every time you point the telescope towards Jupiter you'll most certainly see one of its four large satellites discovered by Galileo in the early 1600s. Usually, two or three of the moons can be easily spotted and sometimes even all four of them. On a small telescope, Jupiter's moons appear as small stars sh... |
16 May 2008
09:27 GMT |
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Jupiter's Europa moon is covered by an icy outer shell believed to be housing a global ocean beneath it, where life could exist. New observations on the moon's surface reveal that the icy shell might have shifted as much as 80 degrees in a matter of only 60 million years, supporting the idea that an ocean m... |
15 May 2008
05:21 GMT |
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The discovery comes in the outcome of 22 years of continuous observations of the temperature variations of the second biggest planet in the solar system, Saturn, which has been the subject of the longest temperature study ever conducted on an extraterrestrial body. Similar atmospheric temperature oscillations have be... |
8 May 2008
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Although they are not as visible as Saturn's beautiful rings of particles, Jupiter's rings were in fact discovered in 1979 during the first Voyager mission. Until 1995, when the Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter, scientists had in fact no image of the thin, mysterious features around our solar... |
5 May 2008
08:29 GMT |
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The market defined by Asustek's Eee PC is getting more and more crowded as both large and small PC manufacturers are flooding it with inexpensive, low-performance devices. Hewlett-Packard's 2133 Mini-Note UMPC triggered the release of another wave of products to join the Linux-based PC army.German manufactu... |
14 April 2008
04:28 GMT |
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There is a storm on Jupiter that has been raging across its atmosphere for the last three centuries or so. We call it the Great Red Spot, however our understanding of what has powered it for such a long time is limited, although it bears a small resemblance to the hurricanes that occur on our planet from time to time... |
11 April 2008
04:21 GMT |
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The newly discovered glowing feature in Jupiter's atmosphere seems to be produced by a stream of electrically charged particles rushing from the planet's small volcanic moon Io, much in the same way the solar wind determines the appearance of aurora borealis on Earth in the polar region of the planet. Accor... |
18 March 2008
03:45 GMT |
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Jupiter and Earth, two extremely different planets. One has a solid surface, the other has no surface at all; one is a rocky planet, the other, a massive gas giant, and so on. However, this doesn't mean that the two are totally different from one another. It looks like Jupiter and the Earth share one key feature... |
10 March 2008
05:30 GMT |
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The newly discovered solar system lies 5,000 light years away from Earth and seems to contain two gas giants slightly smaller that the two biggest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, evidence that solar systems similar to our own might be more abundant in the Milky Way than previously thought. One of the... |
28 February 2008
04:07 GMT |
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Astronomers got an unprecedented view at what is one of the most hard to see annual meteor showers, during the night of January 3rd, with the help of a Gulfstream V aircraft flying over the arctic regions of the Earth. The campaign had been initiated by NASA's Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, it was ... |
7 February 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Computers have long since ceased being simple accessories to help us in performing day-by-day tasks. They have successfully managed to mix performance with fashion and elegance, and there is a multitude of examples to back up this case, from Gigabyte's colorful notebooks to the Zeus mobile pieces of jewelery.But... |
31 January 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Japanese PC designer Zeus surely knows how important the computers are to their owners, but this might seem a little too much. If Apple's MacBook Air looked expensive, Zeus' notebooks have not only the looks, but also the price tag itself screaming this. Zeus' two models of notebooks, called Jupiter an... |
30 January 2008
05:31 GMT |
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For those of you who are looking for unique images on the night sky, since tonight you can see how the closest planet to Earth, Venus, and the largest planet in the solar system, the gas giant Jupiter, slowly draw together to create some of the brightest systems visible this year. Don't worry though, the two are... |
25 January 2008
05:33 GMT |
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In March 2007 Jupiter spawned a new gigantic atmospheric storm measuring an area of the size of two Earth continents. However, the thick Jovian atmosphere makes the observation of processes which take place inside it very difficult, disabling a good understanding of meteorological phenomenons which trigger these stor... |
24 January 2008
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Just before 2006, Pluto was still considered the most remote planet in the solar system. However, due to the discovery of a series of objects that had similar sizes and characteristics to that of Pluto, the object has been demoted from its status of planet to that of Kuiper belt object, or minor planet. Currently, th... |
15 January 2008
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Those of you who got bored of climbing all the mountains on Earth might consider an exotic experience on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. I heard they've got some mighty good-looking mountains there. Well, the Cassini-Huygens probe has once again exceeded the expectations and done what no other space probe stu... |
20 December 2007
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Jupiter's natural satellite Europa, may be the only body in the solar system, except Earth, to have a liquid water ocean inside which life could have appeared and evolved. In order to study the remote satellite, scientists have designed a probe similar to a submarine, which will be deployed to Jupiter's moo... |
15 December 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Jupiter's natural satellite Europa, is the only cosmic body in the solar system that might have an ocean of liquid water under its frozen surface, except for Earth. This represents a great opportunity for astrobiologists who believe that in the ocean life might be present, as diverse as in the oceans on Earth. H... |
14 December 2007
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The general theory about how rocky planets like our own form is pretty well understood, as gas and dust remnant from the process of star formation collapse and stick together to form a rough rock, in the shape of a ball which collides with other such objects to form a planet.Nevertheless, the formation process of gia... |
6 December 2007
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The Sun used to be considered the biggest object in the solar system. Though not as massive and compact as the star, comet Holmes currently has a volume larger than that of the Sun. The second outburst in history took place on the 24th of October this year, when the comet expanded and multiplied its brightness about ... |
15 November 2007
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New secrets of the giant gas planet have been exposed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its recent flyby on the way towards the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015. New Horizons was sped on by Jupiter's gravity, saving years of its journey to the icy Pluto. This is the closest encounter with Jupiter since the... |
10 October 2007
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A newly discovered planet proved to be the biggest known planet outside of the Solar System. The new planet is located in the Hercules constellation and it was a surprise even for the astronomers. "We continue to be surprised by how relatively large these giant planets can be," says Francis O'Donovan.The planet ... |
10 August 2007
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Astronomers have just discovered another unusual celestial body in our solar system. It's a small asteroid, only 1 kilometer across that seems to follow Mars during its rotation cycle around the Sun. This is the first object of its kind to show this unusual movement.Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which ... |
24 July 2007
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Io is one of the 63 confirmed satellites of the gas giant Jupiter and the fourth largest moon in the Solar System. Although it is just 100 km larger in radius than Earth's Moon, astronomers found it to be the most active place for volcanic activity ever detected in the Universe.With over 400 active volcanic sit... |
23 July 2007
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Giant planets made of gas are the easiest to find outside our solar system, and more than 230 of them, many times larger than our champion, Jupiter, have been found in recent years. While extrasolar planets in general are hard to spot because light bouncing off these planets is easily lost in the sea of brightness ge... |
13 July 2007
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For the first time in history, an alien planet outside our solar system is proven to have water in its atmosphere. Previous theories said water vapor should be present in the atmospheres of nearly all the known extrasolar planets.Curiously, water was thought to be found in the atmosphere of one of the giant's n... |
12 July 2007
02:48 GMT |
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It seems the giant of our solar system is full of surprises. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took some astonishing pictures of the dramatic atmospheric changes on the planets, the like of which were never seen before.The planet already had some unique atmospheric features, like the high-altitude clouds and a haze... |
29 June 2007
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The most recently discovered exoplanet is a true giant, being only six times smaller than the star it orbits. It's located in the constellation Hercules about 10 degrees west of Vega, the brightest star in the summer skies and was discovered by an international team of astronomers with the help of a network of ... |
1 June 2007
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A newly discovered exoplanet puzzles astronomers. Named XO-1b, the planet is the most massive found orbiting extremely close to its star, but it doesn't have a circular orbit, like most astronomers would have expected, but an elliptical one, which is very unusual, considering the short distance to its sun.Disco... |
31 May 2007
02:46 GMT |
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It may sound strange, but it seems some planets are ejected from the solar system where they were born, while still in an early development stage, and set to wander the interstellar space. That's kind of a scary thought, even though actual pictures of such planets may look good.Remember the sci-fi series of the... |
30 May 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Brown dwarfs are not fully understood stars and the latest observations confirmed this by photographing such a star throwing jets of matter, a process characteristic of young stars. So, it would seem that these dwarfs follow a similar formation pattern to the one of normal stars, but outflows are driven out by these... |
24 May 2007
02:51 GMT |
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This week, we will have a real "traffic jam" in the night sky. Four planets in our solar system plus the Moon will be visible even with the naked eye in the western sky. They are the closest planets to the Earth, but only for a brief period of time in a whole year can they be seen together in the sky. Amateur and pr... |
19 May 2007
07:10 GMT |
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Saturn's moon, Titan, has a strange atmosphere, and astronomers are very interested in finding the source of the phenomena that led to the forming of the only nitrogen-rich mix of gases in the solar system. From this point of view, the atmospheric mixture is somewhat close to that of the Earth in complexity.Tita... |
17 May 2007
15:46 GMT |
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European astronomers have just discovered a strange planet roughly the size of Neptune, made of hot, solid water. It has been named GJ 436b and it orbits a cooler red star located about 30 light-years away from Earth.The existence of hot ice is possible, although never encountered in nature on our planet. This could... |
17 May 2007
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NASA has funded an expedition to search for the submerged bottom of the deepest sinkhole on Earth, El Zacatón, in Mexico. A robotic submarine will try to find out more about the geothermal sinkhole and what lives down there.A sinkhole, also known as a cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography... |
15 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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A new astronomical find gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "it's a hell hole." The Spitzer Space Telescope has just sent in astonishing new data about the most bizarre extrasolar planet ever photographed. It literally fits the classical descriptions of Hell: the temperatures on the surface of this planet ... |
10 May 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Extrasolar planets are very hard to find, because light bouncing off these planets is easily lost in the sea of brightness generated by the star around which it orbits. It's kind of like searching for a firefly next to a lighthouse lamp. All in all, astronomers have found about 230 extrasolar planets beyond ou... |
3 May 2007
03:48 GMT |
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NASA's New Horizons space probe is on its way to the last planet (actually the former last planet, as it was "degraded" to the rank of "trans-neptunian object" this year), Pluto. But on its way it took some very beautiful snapshots of Jupiter's system.In fact, the gas giant is so complex that it looks lik... |
2 May 2007
02:59 GMT |
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You probably know Europa, though she's not a star... not even a planet in space.Europa is a moon of the planet Jupiter. It is the sixth nearest moon to Jupiter, and the fourth largest of Jupiter's moons. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (and independently by Simon Marius shortly thereafter) and... |
20 April 2007
06:58 GMT |
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zones of Earth, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Its southern counte... |
30 March 2007
03:16 GMT |
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Many scientists think that if on the Sun system there were another body than Earth harboring life, that would be Europa, the fourth largest of Jupiter's satellites. A salty ocean was found beneath its icy surface. Europa compasses all the ingredients life requires: liquid water, an energy source (delivered by th... |
16 March 2007
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