Kepler Astronomers Discover New Rocky Planet that may have Liquid Water
Main Point:San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on...
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New Isotopic Evidence Supporting Moon Formation From Earth Collision With...
Main Points:A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of the Earth with another large, planet-sized astronomical body, around...
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Fast-Flowing Gas Curtails Galaxy’s Glow
NGC 5548. Bootes Penryn, California May 2008. M 250 @ f 9.3 (ag, ST-4)Main Points:The bright core of a spiral galaxy has unexpectedly dimmed, according to a new study by an international team of...
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Discovery Expands Search for Earth-Like Planets: Newly Spotted Frozen World...
Artist’s impression of Earth-like planet (Credit: difference.weblog.glam.ac.uk)Main Point:A newly discovered planet in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth is expanding...
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Controversial Clues of Two ‘Goldilocks Planets’ That Might Support Life Are...
This image shows the location of the three planets remaining in 2014. Research published in 2014, led by Penn State astronomers, shows that two of the signals previously attributed to planets in the...
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Earth = combination of two planets (study shows)
Earth (Image source: nasa.gov) Main Point: Earth is actually a combination of two planets, i.e. Earth and Theia, a planet thought to be about the size of Mars. Published in: Science Study Further:...
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