In a finding that could have considerable implications on the number of exoplanets potentially harboring life forms, researchers determined in a new study that there could be three times more stars in the Universe that initially calculated.The conclusions belong to astronomers who found out that members of a common s... |
2 December 2010
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Officials at the American space agency announce that their Kepler planet-hunting telescope managed to send back no less than 706 potential hits in its quest for alien worlds. These readings have not yet been confirmed as exoplanets. However, if they are, then it means that Kepler managed to nearly triple the number o... |
19 June 2010
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Astronomers have believed for a long time that, as technology finally progresses, we will soon be able to detect habitable worlds around stars similar to our own Sun. While the technology has not yet matured to that point, it is still advanced enough to provide a taste of the things to come. Recently, experts were ab... |
15 December 2009
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Most of the astronomical community today is keeping its eyes focused on the goal of finding Earth-like planets on the desired orbits around their parent stars, in systems thousands of light-years away. But a new group inside the community is arguing that a habitable world may also be identified in a moon circling a J... |
2 December 2009
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The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument is one of the most skilled in the world at finding exoplanets. This was evidenced by the fact that it recently helped identify no less than 32 new exoplanets, from the super-Earth (or Neptune-like) class. Thus far, the high-precision echelle spectro... |
19 October 2009
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Experts have oftentimes wondered how it is that some stars circle their galaxies all alone, without planets or asteroid around them, while others, like our Sun, are perfectly capable of creating a host of accompanying celestial bodies, ranging from planets and meteors, to moons, comets and asteroid belts. In a new sc... |
7 October 2009
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The large flash of light that left astronomers puzzled more than three years ago has yet to be explained, Hubble scientists announced recently, although many hours were spent studying the photographs the space telescopes relayed back to Earth on that day. According to the astronomers, the readings do not match those ... |
13 January 2009
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We mostly view the universe as a regular structure filled with matter and light in every direction, while in fact it is anything but that. The universe is a cosmic mess, with galaxies randomly placed and linked together by filaments of matter some billions of light-years long. Forget about light! Only four percent o... |
7 January 2008
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In the attempt to find new solar systems and Earth-like planets, or possibly other signs of life in the universe, astronomers from the University of Texas have detected what appears to be the first planet outside the solar system to present an atmosphere.The atmosphere surrounds an exoplanet that orbits the star know... |
8 December 2007
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Such strange flying-saucer-shaped objects mostly common in Saturn's rings have puzzled scientists. It appears that they form from gathering particles of ice and dust from the rings, much in the same way planets form by buiding up matter from accretion disks spinning around stars, and could provide us with valuab... |
7 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 infrared view of the Spitzer Space Telescope shows, for the first time, the early stage of a sun-like structure, when the cloud of dust and gas surrounding it is being flattened and collapsed into a thin disk gravitating it in an approximate equatorial region. The presence of the ejected streams of gas from the s... |
30 November 2007
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New models regarding the solar system formation argue that certain solar systems might exist without a central star, or might have incredibly small, faint stars. The evidence was found while studying models of miniature versions of the solar system, results suggesting the other existing solar systems would not necess... |
22 November 2007
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By observing nearby galaxies, using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope situated in Hawaii, astronomer Floris van der Tak observed in the dust clouds outside our galaxy, the first acidic cloud. The stellar and planetary formation might be explained through acidification inhibition, but astronomers cannot know for certa... |
22 November 2007
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