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Solar System
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ri (Read More)
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Universe Today:
Bullies are everywhere and the universe is no exception. In our own solar system, Jupiter's mass is second only to that of the Sun. Its gravitational effects tug around a set of asteroids known as the Trojans and may prevent (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Image courtesy of GizmagScientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first 3-D photovoltaic solar system that actually works underground. Using optical fibers common to the telecommunications i (Read More)
Universe Today:
Though the Cassini mission has focused intently on scientific exploration of Saturn and it's moons, data taken by the spacecraft has significantly changed the way astronomers think about the shape of our Solar System. As the (Read More)
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Planetary Society Weblog:
Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he watched the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Monday, November 16. Kremer is a research scientist and freelance journalist w (Read More)
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Planetary Society Weblog:
Planetary Society volunteer Ken Kremer is reporting for us from the Kennedy Space Center, where he will watch the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis set for Monday, November 16. Kremer is a research scientist and freelance jour (Read More)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA`s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvo (Read More)
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This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67 (Read More)
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Planetary Society Weblog:
Via the USGS I learned that Jupiter has passed a milestone of sorts, and now has fifty named satellites. The fiftieth is Herse, a 2000-meter-diameter rock orbiting 22 million kilometers from Jupiter that was formerly known a (Read More)
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Wired Science:
A telescope carried by balloon to the edge of Earth’s stratosphere has returned the most detailed video of the sun’s surface to date.Released Wednesday by an international research team led by astronomers from Germany’s Max P (Read More)
Exoplanetology:
In November 1833, Astronomers noticed an unusual number of meteors that seemed to emanate from the Leo constellation. It has come to be called The Leonids, a meteor shower with an amazing display of light caused by dust and d (Read More)
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An epic 10-year, 3-billion-mile journey from Cape Canaveral to the rim of the solar system is almost halfway complete, and in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will allow us to lay eyes directly on the mysterious, beloved (Read More)
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For such a small member of the solar system, about which relatively little is known, Pluto has an impressive following. When the news that the ninth planet had been stripped of its planethood got out, the public outcry was im (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing are the magnetic (Read More)
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National Geographic:
Sunlike stars that harbor planets are low on lithium, according to a recent study that may offer a new tool in the hunt for planets beyond our solar system.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has now recorded some more down-to-Earth signals. During its first 14 months of (Read More)
Planetary Society Weblog:
Here's our monthly checkup with the Dawn mission, contributed by Marc Rayman, the mission's Project System Engineer. Thanks Marc! --ESLClick to enlarge >Marc RaymanBy Marc Rayman Dear Dawn-o'-lanterns, Dawn continues to mak (Read More)
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Planetary Radio - The Planetary Society:
The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee report was released October 22nd. Planetary Society Executive Director Lou Friedman provides his perspective in this week's show. Bill Nye says something very strange is (Read More)
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Planetary Society Weblog:
There are two -- actually three -- big things to look forward to this month. We have a double event to look forward to on Cassini: a pair of ultra-close Enceladus flybys spaced only 19 days apart, on November 2 and 21. And (Read More)
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