items tagged with Solar system
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-01-19 07:01:02
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. spacecraft is zooming toward a close encounter with Jupiter to study its tempestuous atmosphere, ring system and four of its moons before dashing off to see distant Pluto in 2015, scientists said on Thursday.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-01-19 06:55:17
NASA is preparing to launch a new mission to learn more about the causes of atmospheric substorms. A substorm is a period of intense geomagnetic activity, visible to observers as a sudden brightening of the polar aurorae.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-01-15 17:47:41
On January 19, 2006, the NASA New Frontiers space mission called New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for its mission to the planet Pluto and its moon Charon. Now about one year later, astronomers are preparing for its flyby of the planet Jupiter before it reaches dwarf planets Pluto and Charon. Scientists estimate that its closest approach to Jupiter will be at approximately 06:00 UTC (coordinated universal time) on February 28, 2007, which is 1:00 a.m. eastern standard time.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-01-13 11:59:32
Over the past thirty years astronomers have gathered information on an asteroid belt around a star other than the Sun. That star—Zeta Leporis—is about 70 light-years away from the Earth. Evidence collected in 2006 about Zeta Leporis’ asteroid belt helps confirm that planet-making processes are occurring around stars other than the Sun.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-01-13 06:46:10
The famous "Pillars of Creation", the subject of the best known of Hubble's images, have already been blown apart by a supernova. We won't see their destruction here on Earth for another thousand years, but the astronomers making the claim estimate that the massive, star-forming pillars that make up the Eagle Nebula were obliterated almost 6000 years ago.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-01-10 10:05:30
Over a sixteen-year period, with various ups and downs in its ability to observe the universe, the Hubble Space Telescope has taught humankind that the universe is, indeed, as beautiful as it is mysterious. Astronomers have voted the top ten Hubble photographs taken from 1990 to 2006.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-01-09 11:06:36
Astronomers reported in early January 2007 that the Hubble Space Telescope observed a massive number of particles within a turbulent circumstellar disk surrounding the 12-million-old red dwarf star AU Microscopii. These particles are said by the scientists to be in the very early stage of forming planets.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-01-08 11:00:55
Cometary experts have calculated that the orbit of Comet McNaught should come as near as 15.8 million miles (25.4 million kilometers) from the Sun (what is called perihelion) on January 12, 2007. Thus, its brightness should peak on that date. At that time, it could be tens of times brighter than the planet Venus.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-01-08 05:50:18
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Is there intelligent life on other planets? If so, what do space aliens watch on TV?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-01-06 22:00:36
If the meteorite had landed in Iraq, no-one might have noticed. But it ripped through the roof of a New Jersey house, demolishing a second-floor bathroom and quite possibly provoking hilarious jokes that ‘the sky is falling’!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-01-06 12:07:32
The 13-ounce (377-gram) oblong object that fell through a New Jersey home’s roof and landed in a second-floor bathroom on January 2, 2007, was an iron meteorite. Upon inspection, its leading edge (the side that was subjected to the atmosphere while descending toward Earth) was smoother than the trailing edge (the backside).
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