Staring at the surface of an alien star
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Squashed, fast and cool Scientists have taken the first ever pictures of the surface of an alien Sol-like sun.â¦
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European scientists have found a planet circling a distant star that could be home to life. The planet, the first detected so far that is enough like Earth for life to develop, orbits a star called mu Arae in the southern constellation Altar.
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There's a light bulb inside the supremely awesome metal UFO on top, which illuminates the windows and the mysterious aliens inside. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Dec. 7--Look! Up in the sky! Is that an exceedingly slow shooting star, a really high-flying jet or a UFO that lost its bearings on the way to Roswell?   Nope. That's space shuttle Discovery.
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In this artist&#39;s concept released by NASA, a ring of dusty debris is seen around a star. NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope found rings of dust around planet-bearing stars, an important confirmation of theories
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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LOS ANGELES Saturn&#39;s moon Titan has some familiar-looking features, but scientists say most of it looks &quot;very alien.&quot;.
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A NASA satellite catches the action as a massive star smashes to smithereens. It open up a whole new universe to astronomers. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Astronomers describe a planet orbiting a star near the end of its life - a vision, perhaps, of Earth's future.
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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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Astronomers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are testing a strangely-shaped mirror that will allow them to explore the Universe using super-energetic X-rays.
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Astronomers have glimpsed what may be the farthest galaxy we've ever seen, providing a picture of a baby galaxy born soon after the beginning of the universe.
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In what could be a breakthrough in the search for worlds, an international team of astronomers claims to have made an image of a planetlike object beyond our solar system.
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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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Scientists said on Thursday they   have spotted an unusually large and light planet orbiting a   distant star -- a discovery that could force them to reexamine   theories about how planets are formed.
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Planet-building is dusty work, and now two space telescopes have captured images of cosmic construction materials: disks of dust circling stars about the same size as our sun.
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University of New South Wales -- A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides the best star-viewing site on Earth, according to research published today in Nature.     Australian researchers have shown than a ground-based telescope in Antarctica can take images almost as good as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, at a fraction of the cost...