Nine years ago, scientists launched a space probe in order to collect material from a comet formed at the far edges of our solar system. Surprisingly, they found out that the comet was comprised of particles similar to those forged in the proximity of the sun. The Stardust probe had been launched from Cape Cana... |
19 September 2008
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The Stardust mission brings surprising new evidence once again. After the initial sample analysis revealed that most of the material inside comet Wild 2 originated in the inner regions of the solar system, now scientists have shown that, against general belief that comets are fluffy dust objects, they could instead h... |
25 January 2008
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A new study involving the origin of the material that composes a comet shows that cometary dust is created in the close proximity of a star during its first stages of life, which is being dissipated towards the outer regions of the solar system as the planetary formation process draws to an end. Material for these ne... |
4 January 2008
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Now this has got to be humiliating... But at least it turns out that even celebrities sometimes learn their lessons and want to prevent other celebrities from making fools of themselves. It happened to Sienna Miller, who despite looking better than usual and being the star attraction on the green carpet at the premie... |
4 October 2007
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"Stardust" is based on the novel and comic series by renowned writer Neil Gaiman and is directed by Mathew Vaughn. And, to be honest, it rocks. Now that the dust (pun intended) has settled on the first craze caused by the movie's release, we can take a good, calm look at it and state again that it's a lot m... |
21 August 2007
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