Posts Tagged ‘solar system’
Gassy Neptune’s spots track its day
U. ARIZONA (US) — A day on Neptune lasts precisely 15 hours, 57 minutes and 59 seconds—the first accurate measurement of any gas planet in the solar system in almost 350 years. Continue…
Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:26 - 0 Comments
Science & Technology - Apr 12, 2011 10:24 - 0 Comments
To find life, search near dying stars
U. WASHINGTON (US) —The best place to look for planets that can support life may be around dim, dying stars called white dwarfs. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 4, 2011 13:24 - 2 Comments
Sun clouds explode with familiar ripple
U. WARWICK (UK) — Instabilities forming in clouds of material exploding from the Sun appear to have similarities to clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 14, 2010 11:01 - 0 Comments
First look deep inside infant solar systems
U. ARIZONA (US)—Astronomers have observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 20, 2009 11:00 - 0 Comments
Cassini reshapes view of solar system
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—It turns out that the solar system may look more like a basketball than a comet. Images from one of the sensors on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere—the region of our sun’s influence—may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing models. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 17, 2009 15:00 - 1 Comment
Meteorite suggests younger cosmic roots for Earth
University of Chicago Postdoctoral Scientist Philipp Heck with a sample of the Allende meteorite. The dark portions of the meteorite contain dust grains that formed before the birth of the solar system. The Allenda meteorite is of the same type as the Murchison meteorite, the subject of Heck’s Astrophysical Journal study. (Credit: Dan Dry)
