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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Fly over Ceres in new video
A new animated video of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, provides a unique perspective of this heavily cratered mysterious world. The video is based on observations of Ceres that were taken from Dawn’s...
Sunset jets on Rosetta’s comet
When night falls on Rosetta’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the bizarrely shaped body remains active. This can be seen in new images of the Ma’at region located on the comet’s “head” captured by OSIRIS, the scientific...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
NASA spacecraft detects impact glass on surface of Mars
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, such deposits might provide a delicate window into the possibility of past life on the...
ALMA’s observation of Einstein ring reveals extraordinary detail
ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign has produced a spectacularly detailed image of a distant galaxy being gravitationally lensed. The image shows a magnified view of the galaxy’s star-forming regions, the likes of which have never been seen bef...
Friday, June 5, 2015
Charting the Milky Way from the inside out
Imagine trying to create a map of your house while confined to only the living room. You might peek through the doors into other rooms or look for light spilling in through the windows. But, in the end, the walls and lack of visibility would largely ...
Three candidates for the European Space Agency’s next medium-class science mission
Exoplanets, plasma physics, and the X-ray universe are the topics chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be considered for the fourth medium-class mission in its Cosmic Vision science program for launch in 2025. Following the recommendation by...
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Crashing comets may explain mysterious lunar swirls
Brown University researchers have produced new evidence that lunar swirls — wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon’s surface — were created by several comet collisions over the past 100 million years. Researchers used state-of-...
Hubble finds two chaotically tumbling Pluto moons
If you lived on one of Pluto's moons, Nix or Hydra, you'd have a hard time setting your alarm clock because you could not know for sure when, or even in which direction, the Sun would rise. A comprehensive analysis of all available Hubble Space Tel...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Astronomers discover a young solar system around a nearby star
An international team led by Thayne Currie of the Subaru Telescope and using the Gemini South Telescope has discovered a young planetary system that shares remarkable similarities to our early solar system. Their images reveal a ring-like disk of deb...
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