Spitzer Telescope Finds Planet Forming Messy
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The business of building planets is messier and more chaotic than scientists realized, according to new observations from NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets that take less than a day to whiz round their parent stars.
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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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Astronomers announce recent discoveries of two Earth-like planets.
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NEW YORK Ever since 1960, when a Cornell University astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a pair of nearby stars on the chance that he might hear a &quot;howdy&quot; from extraterrestrial beings, astronomers have persevered in the notion that
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The discovery of a large disc of dust around a double star system may force a rethink of some astronomical models.
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The Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes each have found dusty disks around sun-like stars. Finding such rings of dusty debris around stars the size of the sun is difficult, because they are fainter and harder
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AUSTIN, Texas &mdash; An extrasolar planet about one-fourth the heft of Jupiter might have formed from the collision and merger of two planets, astronomers announced today.
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Astronomers have yet to find an Earth-size planet beyond our solar system, but that hasn&#39;t stopped them from modeling what these worlds might look like.
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New observations of dust around young stars suggests collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NASA's Spitzer Telescope recently utilized technology developed by Goodrich Corporation  to capture enough light from planets outside our solar system to identify the molecular make-up of the planets' atmospheres.
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A large planet-like object out in the realm of Pluto shows signs of either a relatively recent collision or perhaps volcanic activity, astronomers said today.
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A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the much-photographed Helix nebula, a shimmering cloud of gas with an eerie resemblance to a giant eye.
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Washington, DC- Using a network of small automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world.
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A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery, scientists said.
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A newfound planet detected by a small, 4-inch-diameter telescope demonstrates that we are at the cusp of a new age of planet discovery. Soon, new worlds may be located at an accelerating pace, bringing the detection of the first Earth-sized world one step closer.
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WASHINGTON - A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery.