Category: Astronomy
16 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Easy Hiking, and Biking, on Titan
First global topographic map of Saturn's big moon shows a subdued landscape
9 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Rocky Planets in the Nearest Star Cluster?
Two stars in the Hyades may have silicate-rich worlds
8 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Welcome to the Universe-Wide Web
Galaxies may be connected by strands of gas, which fuel star formation
8 May 2013
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Live Chat: The Quest for Another Earth (Video)
Join a Google Hangout with experts about the search for exoplanets and alien life
3 May 2013
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Do Cosmic Rays Grease Lightning?
Russian researchers find that, with a little tweaking of their model, lightning studies support the role of celestial particles in seeding lightning
26 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Solving the Mystery of Supercharged Lightning
Chance arrangement of satellites gives researchers unprecedented look at terrestrial gamma-ray flashes
10 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Green Bubble in Space
Astronomers gain their best view yet of an enigmatic object
5 April 2013
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Video: The Planet That Wasn't
Collapsed star caught masquerading as Jupiter-sized world
3 April 2013
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Two Billion Dollar Cosmic Ray Detector Confirms Possible Signs of Dark Matter
But results from Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer could have a far more prosaic explanation
26 March 2013
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ScienceShot: A New Class of Supernova
These exploding stars are fainter, less energetic than typical supernovae
21 March 2013
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Best Image of Big Bang Afterglow Ever Confirms Standard Cosmology
Results from Europe's Planck spacecraft pose no major new puzzles for cosmologists
20 March 2013
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ScienceShot: Has Voyager 1 Left the Solar System?
Cosmic ray data suggest the craft may have finally reached interstellar space
14 March 2013
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ScienceShot: Solar Blast Suspected in Tree Ring Mystery
Huge solar storm likely hit Earth in 775 C.E.
13 March 2013
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ScienceShot: Mysterious Gas in Titan's Atmosphere
Astronomers puzzle over a fluorescent glow emanating from Saturn's moon
11 March 2013
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Video: Particle Collisions Could Create Twin Black Holes
But don't worry, they still won't destroy the world
6 March 2013
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ScienceShot: A Better Cosmic Yardstick
Study yields more accurate distance to Large Magellanic Cloud
5 March 2013
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ScienceShot: Elements Rising Up From Europa's Ocean
Subsurface sea of Jupiter’s moon well connected with its surface, spectra suggest
28 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Birth of a Planet
Astronomers spot what may be first protoplanet caught in early stages of formation
20 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Moon-Sized Planet Orbits Sunlike Star
Space telescope spots smallest world yet found circling another star like our own
15 February 2013
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Video: Was Siberian Meteor Blast a Warning of Things to Come?
Rain of cosmic debris will continue
14 February 2013
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Source of High-Energy Cosmic Rays Nailed at Last
At least some of the mysterious particles are born in supernova shock waves, satellite data confirm
5 February 2013
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ScienceShot: How to Tie a Ribbon Round the Solar System
A sky-spanning band of energetic particles may be the sun's own particles thrown back at it
4 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Some 'Super Earths' More Like Mini Neptunes
Distant giants won't evolve into rocky worlds
31 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Hot Planet Cools Off Its Own Sun
World's gravity creates stellar dark spot
30 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Giving Birth at 10 Million Years Old
Aging star could still form planets
30 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Weighing Distant Black Holes
Scientists have a new way to estimate the mass of black holes up to 244 million light-years away
23 January 2013
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Magnetic Sun Produces Hot Hot Heat
Astronomers spot previously unseen phenomena in our star's atmosphere
19 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Sea Cow in Space
Distant nebula bears striking resemblance to manatee
18 January 2013
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Polaris: Not So Close After All
Astronomer rebuts report that the North Star is 111 light-years nearer than thought
18 January 2013
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ScienceShot: So Long, Mr. Spock
Astronomers find no evidence of "Vulcanoids" orbiting close to the sun
11 January 2013
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ScienceShot: The Largest Structure in the Universe
Astronomers spy 4-billion-light-year-wide clump of quasars
11 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Largest Spiral Galaxy Is a Stretch
Distorted system still spawning offspring
11 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Moons as Big as Earth? Not Yet
A small search for "supermoons" comes up dry
11 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Light From Beyond the Universe's Dark Side
Contrary to expectations, cosmic voids enhance the brightness of galaxies behind them
10 January 2013
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Has the Milky Way Lost Weight?
Our galaxy is only half as massive as astronomers thought
10 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Milky Way Blows a Huge Bubble
Astronomers spot largest hot-hydrogen bubble in galaxy
10 January 2013
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Mysterious Planet May Be Cruising for a Bruising
Celestial fireworks predicted in a far flung star system
9 January 2013
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ScienceShot: The Milky Way's Dark Skeleton
Our galaxy could be riddled with sinuous clouds of cold gas
8 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Planets Orbit Dead Stars
Phenomenon may be glimpse of Earth's future
8 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Hubble Spies Oldest Galaxies Yet
Telescope provides astronomers with deepest view so far of early universe
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