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New research unlocks secrets of neutron stars
New layers within a star's crust that house nuclear reactions have scientists questioning how neutron stars create heat.
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No return from the dead for Comet ISON
The last vestiges of Comet ISON are fading from view after a sizzlingly close encounter with the sun, scientists said on Monday. "Comet ISON is now just a cloud of dust," astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on SpaceWeather.com, a NASA-backed website.
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How did Earth get it's Moon? Some interesting theories inside...
Current theories on the formation of the Moon owe too much to cosmic coincidences, says Robin Canup. She calls for better models and a mission to Venus.
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37,440-exposure, 5,000-megapixel photograph of the entire night sky
Amazing interactive experience that will make you feel as small as an ant.
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New Hi-Res Footage Shows Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Like Never Before
You're looking at a newly released 8-frame movie of Saturn's enigmatic "hexagon." It is the highest-resolution footage ever acquired of the massive six-sided maelstrom atop the ringed planet's north pole, and boy howdy is it gorgeous.
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Check out this awesome image of Comet Lovejoy
As we wait to find out what if anything survived Comet ISON's brush with the sun, check out this gorgeous image of Comet Lovejoy taken with the Hawaii-based telescope Subaru. The image above was taken on Tuesday, and shows a clear view of the ionized plasma filaments in the comet's tail.
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Giant Alien Planet Discovered in Most Distant Orbit Ever Seen
An enormous alien planet — one that is 11 times more massive than Jupiter — was discovered in the most distant orbit yet found around a single parent star. The newfound exoplanet, dubbed HD 106906 b, dwarfs any planetary body in the solar system, and circles its star at a distance that is 650 times the average distance between the Earth and the sun.
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Geminid meteor shower set to peak, but moon might curtail viewing
This week marks the peak of what is usually considered the most satisfying of all annual meteor displays: The Geminid meteor shower.
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APOD: 2013 December 9 - Comet Lovejoy over a Windmill
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Chris Hadfield: DNews Person Of The Year
Colonel Chris Hadfield is a man of firsts. He was the first Canadian to carry out a spacewalk, the first Canadian to command the International Space Station and the first person in history to record a produced music video in space. Because of his unique ability to captivate the world, bringing a focus on space station science and what it’s like to live in space, Discovery News is proud to announce that Hadfield has been selected as the first DNews Person of the Year!
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The Madness of the Planets
I am a staunch believer in leading with the bad news, so let me get straight to the point. Earth, our anchor and our solitary haven…
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Think you know what alien life may look like?
The search for planets outside our solar system has been much in the news for the past couple of years, with most of the attention, and questions, focused on "habitable" planets - do they exist, and if so are at least some in fact harboring life? And the biggest question of all: What might that life look like?
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Astronomers may have found the first-ever exomoon seen by humans
We’re living in an age where astronomers can find exoplanets that we can’t actually see. What we haven’t seen yet though, is an exoplanet’s moon, as they’re much smaller than the exoplanets themselves. Now, though, astronomers at University of Notre Dame claim they have seen the human race’s first-ever exomoon.
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Jewel Box Sun
This video of the sun based on data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shows the wide range of wavelengths -- invisible to the naked eye -- that the telescope can view. SDO converts the wavelengths into an image humans can see, and the light is colorized into a rainbow of colors.
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Gaia satellite launches, will chart 1 billion stars 70 times over 5 years
The European Space Agency last week launched Gaia, a star-charting satellite that will repeatedly survey a billion stars over the course of five years. It is en route to a virtual orbit point called "L2", 1.5 million km further from the sun than the planet Earth orbits. It will measure the position, brightness, temperature and chemical composition of each star 70 times.
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The Aurora
Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east.
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Milky Way Galaxy Has Four Spiral Arms, New Study Confirms
A 12-year study has confirmed that our Milky Way Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate that it has only two arms.
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Triple star system clue to gravity
Astronomers have discovered a unique triple star system which could reveal the true nature of gravity.
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Solar Flare Will Hit Earth Thursday; Northern Lights May Expand South
News that takes your mind off the deep freeze may also give you an excuse to venture outside.
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Massive Exoplanets May be More Earth-Like Than Thought
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Massive terrestrial planets, called “super-Earths,” are known to be common in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Now a Northwestern University astrophysicist and a University of Chicago geophysicist report the odds of these planets having an Earth-like climate are much greater than previously thought.
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