Showing posts with label solar system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar system. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

A Dwarf Planet Has Been Discovered At The Solar System's Edge

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In this combined image, the colored dots show the movement of 2012 VP113. Each image was taken two hours apart Dwarf Planet Discovered...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Earth Once Had Two Moons

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This artist's rendering shows a simulation of a collision between the moon and a companion moon about 4 billion years ago. (Martin Jutzi...
Friday, October 1, 2010

The Edge Of The Solar System Is A Weird And Erratic Place

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From Discover Magazine: The edge of the solar system is not some static line on a map. The boundary between the heliosphere in which we live...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Around The Solar System (Photo Gallery)

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A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere are photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member as the Int...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

10 Wonders Of The Solar System

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(Image: NASA / JHU-APL / Southwest Research Institute) From New Scientist: Moons may bow to planets in terms of size, but in character they ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Mysterious Band Of Particles Holds Clues To Solar System's Future

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IBEX spacecraft's all-sky map reveals a bright ribbon of particles. Credit: NASA From Cosmos: HUNTSVILLE, USA: The ribbon of particles a...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

A New Theory On Why The Sun Never Swallowed The Earth

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Illustration by Denis Scott / Corbis From Time Magazine: When astronomers began spotting planets around distant stars in the mid-1990s, they...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Solar System May Be More Compact Than Thought

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A cloud of comets surrounds the main disc of the solar system - new research suggests the cloud may be more compact than previously thought ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

50 Years Of Space Exploration In One Handy Graphic

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From Oh Gizmo!: Created by Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for National Geographic , this beautifully illustrated map includes the almost...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Jupiter Shift Pelted Inner Planets With Asteroids

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The Asteroid Belt, found between Jupiter and Mars, may have been the source of ammunition for the Late Heavy Bombardment. Credit: NASA/JPL-C...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Edge Of Solar System Is Not What We Expected

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From Wired Science: The edge of the solar system is tied up with a ribbon, astronomers have discovered. The first global map of the solar sy...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

New View Of The Heliosphere: Cassini Helps Redraw Shape Of Solar System

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Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera (INCA), part of the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, suggest that ...