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First-Ever Asteroid With Rings Knocks Astronomers for a Loop
When astronomers got a rare look at an asteroid passing in front of a distant star last year, they discovered something rarer still: the first asteroid with rings. Telltale variations in light show that the space rock, known as Chariklo, has two dense, narrow rings. That makes it only the fifth ringed world known to exist in the solar system, after Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.
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Total Lunar Eclipse in April
People in North America have not been able to view a total eclipse of the Moon since back in 2011, but that is coming to an end. On April 15, 2014, when the full Moon passes through the inner dark region of Earth’s shadow, there will be a full eclipse viewable. It will also be able to be seen from most of the Pacific and South America. However in the eastern part of Australia the Moon will not rise until the eclipse is already in progress.
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Newly discovered dwarf planet could challenge what we know about our solar system
While Pluto might have been stripped of its full planetary status, thanks to a shift in official definitions, a newly discovered planetoid could actually hint at the existence of a "super-Earth" in the far reaches of our solar system. The ball of rock and ice, known as 2012 VP113, is estimated to be 250 miles wide, and has the most distant known orbit of our sun - currently around 7.7 billion miles, extending to around 42 billion at its farthest.
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Crescent Moon
Crescent Moon
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Red Planet Rising: Mars Shines Brighter Than It Has in Years
If you want to see Mars at its best, now's your time: This month, the Red Planet looks bigger and brighter than it has for the past six years.
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Spectacular solar scene: Burst of radiation erupts from sun
NASA unveiled incredible footage of a solar flare erupting from the surface of the sun. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the mid-level flair peaked at 10:05 am (EDT) on April 2. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation from the sun. Harmful radiation from these flares do not affect humans as they cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere.
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The Definitive Guide to Exoplanets
One of the most exciting space discoveries over the last 20 years was the confirmation that extrasolar planets exist. Astronomers as far back as...
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'Blood Moon' of April 15 Will Fulfill Biblical Prophesy
During the early hours of April 15, many will look up to the sky and assume that the end has finally come. Do not fret however; no matter how apocalyptic the moon will look, it will still just be a 'Blood Moon'.
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Incredibly rare “back-to-back” maximum eclipses are coming!
This April 15th, Earth experiences a total lunar eclipse, followed by an annular solar eclipse just 14 days later.
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'Blood moon' will be a sight to behold during total lunar eclipse
Prophecy loves signs from the heavens, and they will deliver Tuesday with a moonlight spectacle. What will happen could sound sort of like this: The moon will turn to blood as it aligns with Earth and sun. Then do so thrice more ere a year and a half is done, 'Tis not the herald of the apocalypses. Just the first of four total lunar eclipses.
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NASA clears spacecraft for 2018 trip to asteroid
OSIRIS-REx (or Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer), a planned asteroid sample return mission, will soon have a spaceship. NASA approved the construction of a craft that will be able to travel to an asteroid, collect a sample, and return it to Earth.
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Don't Miss Rare 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse Tonight [With Video]
Turn your gaze to the stars tonight for an eerie and spectacular view of the “blood moon.” At 12:53 a.m. ET, the Earth will begin to position itself between the sun and the moon for the first of a series of four total eclipses to conclude in September 2015. The phenomenon is known as a tetrad...
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Is Saturn Making a New Moon?
Congratulations! It's a baby... moon? A bright clump spotted orbiting Saturn at the outermost edge of its A ring may be a brand new moon in the process of being born, according to research recently published in the journal Icarus.
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First Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
Five hundred light years from Earth, Kepler-186f orbits in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star. A team of astrophysicists at the SETI Institute and NASA's Ames Research Center has just reached a major milestone in the search for life-supporting planets outside our solar system. For the first time, they have discovered an Earth-sized planet nestled in the temperate, liquid-water supporting distance from its star—the so-called habitable zone.
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NASA Announces An Earth-Size Planet That May Have Liquid Water
NASA and Kepler telescope researchers have just announced that they've discovered an Earth-size planet circling a dwarf star at a distance that would allow that planet to support liquid water. The finding was also published Thursday, April 16, in the journal Science.
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Could Humans Colonize A Planet With Stronger Gravity?
With the recent explosion of extrasolar planet discoveries, some relatively nearby, astronomers and space enthusiasts wonder how habitable some of these planets would be for humans.
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Astronauts to reveal sobering data on asteroid impacts
The United Nations appeared to move a step closer on Thursday to holding North Korea’s government accountable for what an investigative panel has called a history of crimes against humanity and egregious human rights abuses, as the Security Council convened a special session to hear the panel’s views on what should be done.
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Astronauts plan $250 million asteroid telescope 'to stop disaster'
As members of an elite band of cosmic explorers, they are among the few to have gone beyond the final frontier and looked down on the Earth from space. Now, inspired by the unique perspective they gained of their home planet – and armed with startling new data about the scale of the threat it faces from asteroid strikes – a group of former Nasa astronauts are on an extraordinary mission to save the world.
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The telescope big enough to spot signs of alien life on other planets
Engineers are about to blast away the top of a Chilean mountain to create a site for the European Extremely Large Telescope. It will allow us, for the first time, to directly observe planets outside the solar system.
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The Hackers Who Recovered NASA’s Lost Lunar Photos
For five years, a group of self-described techno-archaeologists working in an old, abandoned McDonald's have been on a mission: to recover and digitize forgotten photos taken in the ‘60s by a quintet of scuttled lunar satellites.
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