Blurry Image Might Be First Picture of Exoplanet
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The image of a blurry red ball near a failed star just might be the first picture ever snapped of a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer who helped find the object said on Monday.
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An astronomer at Penn State University is not certain whether the latest discovery in outer space is a planet or a failed star.
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com Staff. Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It&#39;s a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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By The Associated Press. Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead
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With the help of a modified backyard telescope, astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting another star. It is the first extrasolar world found with such modest equipment.
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As winter begins, the early morning sky is loaded with planets. Some are unmistakably bright, but a few will require some sleuthing.
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As NASA's Messenger probe returns the first pictures ever taken of the unseen side of Mercury, we see an aging, shrinking planet scarred by volcanic eruptions, as well as a startling, spider-shaped crater.
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The Cassini spacecraft&#39;s cameras revealed sharp but puzzling pictures of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan that captivated planetary scientists Tuesday night as the first-ever close-ups
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This image is one of the closest ever taken of Saturn&#39;s hazy moon Titan. It was captured by Cassini&#39;s imaging science subsystem on Oct. 26, 2004, as the spacecraft flew by Titan.
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An embryonic star, just beginning its life as the center of a planetary system, is apparently deluged with massive rainfall as icy material vaporizes and refreezes. Astronomers are observing one such star in a nebula about 1,000 light years from Earth with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has snapped never-before-seen images of Saturn showing the planet from perspectives above and below its ring system, the national space agency said on Thursday.
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The first pictures taken by the Messenger probe as it passed Mercury on Monday start to arrive at Earth.
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A new extra-solar planet has been identified orbiting a star 500 light years from our solar system. The discovery was made by a team using a four-inch diameter telescope to make their observations - a size
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Astronomers have found the latest planet in another solar system â-r &quot;exoplanet&quot; â -ng telescopes no bigger than those you might find at a garage sale.
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The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
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Hawaii&#39;s Keck Observatory has confirmed the existence of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant star, the first one spotted by a network of astronomers using telescopes no larger than the ones you can buy in stores.
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In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers report