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Astronomers announce that 596Scheila, a space object that has been known for some time, and which was until now believed to be an asteroid, has just revealed that it actually has a tail and come. This, by all definitions, makes is a fully-fledged comet. Experts say that cases in which space rocks turn out to be in fa... |
13 December 2010
07:01 GMT |
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In-depth analyses of 101 year's worth of comet data is beginning to indicate that indeed a large, dark, Jupiter-sized object may be roaming the outskirts of the solar system, destabilizing it, and throwing comets towards the Sun and the inner planets. The new data also indicates that around 20 percent of the com... |
30 November 2010
09:01 GMT |
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A group of astronomers says that the planet Jupiter is finally looking like itself again, after having lost one of its dark brown stripe of clouds, called the South Equatorial Belt (SEB).The atmospheric system is one of the two stripes of this nature the gas giant has, but it disappeared earlier this year under ... |
25 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) announce that they have just delivered the magnetometers that will go on the Juno spacecraft to the Lockheed Martin corporation, in Denver. Juno will be the next NASA mission to Jupiter, and is currently scheduled to launch in 2011. The mission will carry advance... |
28 October 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Astronomers say that they were recently able to confirm the existence of two Jupiter-class exoplanets in orbit around a pair of stars called a binary system. This was thought to be nearly impossible until now, due to the interactions that develop in such a cosmic structure. The stars in this particular binary pair ar... |
26 October 2010
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A team of astronomers has determined that a hot Jupiter-class exoplanet is featuring an impressively hot spot on its surface, but not where scientists expected to find based on the common laws of physics.Studies of the planer Upsilon Andromedae b have shown that the gas giant orbits its parent star at such close rang... |
20 October 2010
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For many years, researchers have suspected that the Jovian moon Europa contains a hidden underground ocean, but now chemists believe that something else may be taking place on the planet as well. They explain that the deep regions of the moon, and perhaps even its surface, may be home to some fast chemical processes,... |
5 October 2010
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Planetary scientists are currently puzzled at the fact that a hot exoplanet that was recently discovered appears to be mission the chemical methane from its atmosphere.Researchers are at a loss in explaining why the gas giant, who is larger than Jupiter, fails to show traces of the hydrocarbon, which is extremely com... |
16 September 2010
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A team of astronomers proposes that the main reason why experts cannot find hot Jupiter-class exoplanets around stars in clusters is the fact that these cosmic fireballs have already destroyed them.Very few of the numerous studies conducted on such parent stars have evidenced the existence of occultations, which is a... |
10 September 2010
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This year marked the first instance ever when amateur astronomers were able to use Earth-based telescopes to see a duo if fireballs lighting up the Jovian atmosphere. The amateurs observed the events even before larger observatories did. Now, a series of papers on the impacts is starting to emerge, published in vario... |
10 September 2010
02:14 GMT |
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After the Perseids in August, September comes with the autumn constellations, brought by the mythical winged horse Pegasus.The September constellations have few or no bright stars at all, not even Pegasus, which is one of the largest constellations in area.The star pattern that is most obvious to the naked eye is the... |
1 September 2010
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An extrasolar planet about seven times the mass of Jupiter surprised astronomers recently, when it revealed that it featured a type of atmospheric composition that no one expected it to sport. This particular celestial body is very important to experts because it is one of the very few exoplanets that can be photogra... |
1 September 2010
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A Japanese amateur astronomer recorded a video of a new flash on Jupiter, on Saturday morning Japan time (around 18:22 GMT or 2:22 pm ET Friday), less than three months after a meteor fall that had already impressed astronomers.In Kumamoto city, on the island of Kyushu, Masayuki Tashikawa pointed his video-equipped t... |
23 August 2010
03:19 GMT |
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than year closer to finally reaching giant asteroid Vesta, as it enter its orbit in late July 2011.The first images of the asteroid will captivate the public as it will look like it is broadcast live, says Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ... |
20 August 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Jupiter's moon Europa is very interesting to astronomers, as it may very well hold a liquid ocean of water just below its surface. However, getting there is a challenge, and researchers are currently working on a way of making it possible. This is the goal of a new research initiative, which seeks to determine t... |
17 August 2010
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When researchers sought out to investigate the world's second-deepest, water-filled sinkhole, they did not expect to find too much biodiversity. But their deep explorations robot managed to identify a surprisingly-large diversity and abundance of organisms, located even at depths where sunlight never penetrates.... |
5 August 2010
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About a week ago, on June 3, the gas giant Jupiter was violently impacted by an asteroid. The event was caught on camera by amateur astronomers, who quickly passed the word to their professional peers. Numerous telescopes and space cameras around the world were then brought at the crash site, as experts and laymen al... |
12 June 2010
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Over the years, astronomers have identified a number of celestial bodies in our solar system that may be suitable candidates for holding some forms of life. Jupiter's moon Europe is the clearest example, with the Saturnine moons Titan and Enceladus threading close by. But a new contestant is currently making its... |
11 June 2010
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In a new set of investigations carried out on Jupiter's moon Europa, researchers determined that its underground oceans contained vast amounts of the chemical oxygen, which is widely considered to be absolutely necessary for life as we know it. The team behind the study says that the element may be present in su... |
27 May 2010
10:48 GMT |
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The famous Shoemaker-Levy comet slammed into Jupiter in 1994. It represented the first direct observation of an instance in which two objects in the solar system collided with each other. The venerable Hubble space telescope, then in its early days, observed the impact, and sent back images of the disintegrating come... |
19 May 2010
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According to new images collected by astronomers, it would appear that one of the most prominent clouds on Jupiter has disappeared, almost over night. Images of the gas giant, taken on May 9, reveal a smooth and common area right where the Southern Equatorial Belt should have been. Because the feature is now missing,... |
13 May 2010
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The appearance of gas giants has puzzled scientists ever since the first clear photos of their surface became available. This is especially true in the case of Saturn and Jupiter, both of which feature prominent stripes. Researchers now believe they may have just discovered one of the mechanisms that might have led t... |
12 May 2010
19:01 GMT |
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One of the most important missions currently in the works at NASA is the Juno probe, a spacecraft that is destined to fly to the gas giant Jupiter in August 2011. The robotic explorer will feature nine scientific experiments, which will help experts gain more insight into how the early solar system appeared and devel... |
6 May 2010
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The Jovian moon Europa is one of the most interesting space objects in our solar system, right alongside Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan and Enceladus. Many astronomers and astrobiologists believe that its thick ice layers hide an ocean of liquid water underneath, which made scientists tremble with excitement. A m... |
30 April 2010
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Europa is perhaps the most famous moon of Jupiter, and for good reason. Data sent back years ago by the Galileo spacecraft hinted at the fact that the small world might in fact be covered in a liquid ocean, although it could be buried as deep as 100 kilometers or more under a thick ice sheet. Still, the prospect of l... |
9 April 2010
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An international collaboration of astronomers has recently discovered the closest neighbor the Sun has, that it definitely outside of our solar system. The researchers say this is a Jupiter-sized object, most likely a very cool brown dwarf. It was found to be wandering around some 9 light-years away from the Sun, whi... |
6 April 2010
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In August 2011, NASA plans to launch a new space exploration mission, this time aimed at Jupiter. Dubbed Juno, the spacecraft will travel the distance from Earth to the gas giant within an estimated five years, and is scheduled to reach its destination in 2016. Officials at the American space agency are now proud to ... |
6 April 2010
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Jupiter's moon Europa is undoubtedly one of the most interesting celestial bodies in the solar system, right alongside Titan and Enceladus, natural satellites of Saturn. This space rock is believed to be covered in an icy cap that may very well be hiding a liquid ocean of water underneath. Cracks in the surface ... |
25 March 2010
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The Great Red Spot on the gas giant Jupiter is undoubtedly the largest storm in the solar system, battering the surface of the planet continuously for many centuries. This weather system is very difficult for researchers to see through, but new investigations from a number of ground-based telescopes have recently rev... |
17 March 2010
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For more than 30 years, astronomers have been puzzled by the fact that Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Callisto are very different from each other. The two celestial bodies are made out of a very similar mixture of ice and rock, and are about the same size, but their surfaces and interior states vary widely. This d... |
25 January 2010
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While discussions over climate change are raging on back on Earth, it may be that we are not the only planet in the solar system to experience this phenomenon. According to new readings from the Hubble and Keck telescopes, Jupiter may currently be in the midst of a very violent period of global warming, as evidenced ... |
29 October 2009
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On October 18, 1989, the Galileo Jupiter mission was launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, during STS-34. It was scheduled to arrive in the gas giant's orbit on December 7, 1995, but it had to follow a very complex path through the solar syste... |
20 October 2009
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Europa has been one of the favored targets in the solar system for experts looking for signs of life someplace else besides the Earth. Astronomers and astrobiologists have been drawn by the fact that the natural satellite features a smooth, craterless surface, an extended network of deep fractures, as well as a brigh... |
14 October 2009
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Named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Jupiter's sixth moon, Europa, may be among the safest bets in the solar system, in terms of having the ability to sustain life as we know it, astronomers have recently announced. In the investigations, the experts determined that the massive ocean of liquid water tha... |
9 October 2009
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Jupiter's peculiar auroras have been a subject of fascination for astronomers for a long time, mostly because they change their patterns and brightness very quickly, much more so than their counterparts on Earth, for example. A thorough study of the events in the planet's magnetic lines, which dictate the s... |
17 September 2009
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After more than seven years of efforts poured into this initiative, experts can now finally boast the first geological map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This is only the third moon in the solar system to get such an “honor,” in addition to the Moon, and Jupiter's cratered Callisto. The detailed do... |
16 September 2009
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Between 1949 and 1961, the comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu was considered to be a moon of Jupiter. The large gas giant captured the celestial body in an irregular orbit around it, and its influence only became dim enough to let the comet escape after about 12 years of “captivity.” Dr. David Asher will presen... |
14 September 2009
05:48 GMT |
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In our own solar system, assessing the differences between planets and stars is a fairly easy procedure. We look at the Sun, and then at Jupiter or Saturn (the largest planets), and the difference is immediately obvious. But things are not as simple in the Universe. Astronomers have discovered over the years exoplane... |
17 August 2009
21:01 GMT |
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
4 August 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
3 August 2009
06:39 GMT |
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After centuries of wondering whether the winds on the distant gas giant Saturn move East or West, scientists and astronomers finally have their answer. It would appear that the atmosphere favors movements in both directions, a groundbreaking find that may help astronomers gain more insight into the properties of the ... |
1 August 2009
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On July 19th, while looking through his amateur telescope at Venus, astronomer Frank Melillo, from Holtsville, NY, caught sight of what appeared to be a bright spot on the surface of the planet. The bright phenomenon suddenly appeared in the atmospheric clouds, and its origin left scientists completely in the dark. E... |
31 July 2009
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
31 July 2009
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
30 July 2009
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
29 July 2009
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
28 July 2009
12:11 GMT |
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The recent collision that scarred the face of Jupiter, and generated a cloud of debris comparable in size to a decent part of our planet, has again prompted astronomers to wonder what are the chances of our corner of the solar system being hit by a rogue object as well. The impact has reminded everyone that we are li... |
28 July 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
27 July 2009
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A certain point 580 million kilometers away is these days the rage in astronomical observations. A few days ago, an object impacted the planet Jupiter, as we reported. The event was first discovered by an Australian sky watcher, who telephoned NASA and told them about his observations. The impact, which left the plan... |
25 July 2009
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Spectrobes is a video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney for the hugely successful Nintendo DS handheld platform. The title was released on March 13, 2007 in North America and Japan and on March 16, the same year, in Europe and other territories. A Collector's Edition of it was also launched at th... |
24 July 2009
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