Stormy Uranus takes astronomers by surprise
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Uranus may not be âthe most boring planetâ in the solar system after all - new images suggest the outer planet experiences weird seasonal weather patterns.
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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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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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Two monster cosmic clouds could hold the solution to the mystery of the missing matter -- immense amounts of celestial stuff that somehow has eluded detection.
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A dying comet has prompted astronomers to take issue with a mainstream theory about the impact of &quot;space weather&quot; on these enigmatic wanderers of the Solar System.
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A supernova spotted by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe more than four centuries ago that changed the course of human knowledge has just yielded a further discovery - the apparent discovery of the companion star that triggered the great event.
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets. A NASA telescope recently discovered
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Astrophysicists find a star-like object with a surface temperature just one tenth that of the Sun.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.
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European Space Agency -- ESAÃ¢ÂÂs quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth.     The superheated gases trapped in these structures are probably tunnelling their way into the EarthÃ¢ÂÂs magnetic Ã¢ÂÂbubbleÃ¢ÂÂ, the magnetosphere...
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An optical illusion has caused astronomers to overestimate the size of a class of giant stars by a factor of two, according to new observations.
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Astronomers say they have captured a stellar explosion - or supernova - unfolding in real time.
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British researchers detect water in atmosphere of planet that circles star far beyond our solar system.
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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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In 1967, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft was hit by a surprising flurry of meteoroids--a shower more intense than any Leonid meteor storm.  Where did the meteoroids come from? It's been a mystery for 40 years.
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Scientists are delighted, fascinated and thoroughly perplexed by the Cassini spacecraft's first close-up pictures of Titan, the smoggy giant moon of Saturn.
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Astronomers spot a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood: a dead star with unusual characteristics.