Astronomy

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• Shedding Light on the Suns "Lithium Mystery"

  
  Castro's Favorite Color — Authority: 138
  Universe Today reports Shedding Light on the Suns "Lithium Mystery" "For decades, astronomers have known our Sun contains a low amount of lithium, while other solar-like stars actually have more. But they didnt know why. By looking at stars similar to the Sun to study this anomaly, scientists have now discovered of ...
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• The Eclipse

  
  Authspot — Authority: 512
  I stand in the open cold And watch the essence of the eclipse Which is perfect darkness. I stand in the cold on the porch Could not think of anything so perfect The mans hope of light in the face of darkness.
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• Vatican Holds Scientific Conference To Ponder The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life [Science]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  Last year Father Jose Gabriel Funes, a Jesuit priest and the chief papal astronomer, noted that the search for aliens did not contradict a belief in God. With that, the floodgates appeared to have...
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• The Fight for the Ninth Planet

  
  The Newsroom — Authority: 133
  The Fight for the Ninth Planet | Wired Science | Wired.com If there’s still someone out there who thinks science and politics never mix, the story behind the Battle of Prague should change your mind. Some have cast the debate that took place in the Czech capital during the summer of 2006 as a battle against ...
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• Perspective

  
  Tom Paine's Ghost — Authority: 124
  A scientific understanding of the cosmos begins by gaining a sense of perspective.  Thanks toMary and Claudia for digging this out of their memory banks.
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• Low on Lithium? If the Stars the Size of the Sun: Its Probably Got Planets

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 437
  " 60-Year-Old Solar Mystery Finally Explained " Space.com (November 11, 2009) " The search for planets beyond our solar system may be a little easier, thanks to a new comparison of sun-like stars that has revealed a key difference in the chemistry of stars that have planets and their barren cousins and solved a ...
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• Exoplanets Clue to Sun’s Curious Chemistry

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 603
  A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing “lithium mystery” observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. Using ESO’s successful HARPS spectrograph, a team of astronomers has found that Sun-like stars that host planets have ...
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• Extraterrestrial turbulence

  
  The Art of Science — Authority: 122
  From the November 2009 issue  of Discover Magazine , originally published online October 21, 2009: Image by: Prof. Paul Woodward, Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Stellar turbulence! This computer-rendered image depicts a Rayleigh-Taylor instability: a ...
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• Very Young Planetary System: HR 8799

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 437
  " Wild Solar System Spotted Around Distant Star " Space.com (November 10, 2009) " A young star observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope appears to be home to a wild – and young – planetary system that shares some of the frenetic dynamics thought to have shaped the early years of our own solar system. " The ...
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• Polar Maps of Enceladus

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 547
  More maps of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, in the form of two polar stereographic maps released today for its northern and southern hemispheres. The maps are mosaics compiled from the best Cassini and Voyager images. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Previously: New Map of Enceladus . Polar ...
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• Up, Up and Away! Helium Balloon Telescope Explores the Sun

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  Exploring the Sun via helium balloon almost sounds like an adventure for an animated movie, but the SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope has captured data and images that show the complex interplay on the solar surface to a level of detail never before achieved. As in the video above, SUNRISE shows our local star ...
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• Exoplanets clue to suns curious chemistry

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 614
  "For almost 10 years we have tried to find out what distinguishes stars with planetary systems from their barren cousins," says Garik Israelian, lead author of a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature . "We have now found that the amount of lithium in Sun-like stars depends on whether or not they have ...
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• Want a planet? You might want to avoid lithium

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 703
  A science joke: A woman is out walking and sees a kid on his hands and knees looking at the sidewalk. She asks the boy what he’s doing, and he says, "Looking for a quarter I lost." She asks him where he lost it, and he points across the street. Quizzically, she asks, "Then why are you looking here?" He replies, ...
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• Spectacular Pictures of the Sun’s Surface

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 603
  The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up – and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project ...
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• Amazing Shots of Mars

  
  BlindReason — Authority: 134
  Breathtaking. More here .
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• Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-ray Source

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  Swift X-ray observations of galaxy NGC 5408 indicate its ultraluminous X-ray source undergoes periodic changes every 115.5 days.While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at ...
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• UFO & ALIEN DAILY NEWS FOR NOV 11, 2009

  
  Alien UFO & The Paranormal Casebook — Authority: 135
  IF IT HIT THE INTERNET TODAY, YOULL FIND IT BELOW WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009 Alien, UFO & The Paranormal Casebook is a site that specializes in bringing this very days news to its visitors as it appears on the Internet each and every day.All text links and picture links are TROJAN & VIRAL SAFE and open ...
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• The Vatican, Alien Life and UFOs

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  As the discovery of the number of planets outside of our little Solar System increases (the count is now 400 ), the possibility of discovering earth-type planets (or moons) increases also. Among which perhaps 10% of the estimated total in the whole galaxy could approximately be at least 10 Billion worlds . And ...
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• UA scientist Spots Wild Solar System Around Distant Star

  
  KOLD Climate Community Blog — Authority: 129
  Posted by Erin Jordan - email TUCSON, AZ (SPACE.com) - A young star observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope appears to be home to a wild – and young – planetary system that shares some of the frenetic dynamics thought...
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• Space debris getting uncontrollable, says official

  
  Physics Today News Picks — Authority: 525
  Space.com : The amount of junk floating in space is getting out of hand and the US must step up its effort to control orbital trash, say experts. The chief of US Strategic Command said Wednesday that America needs better tools to monitor the orbital debris thats up there and plan to avoid collisions with valuable ...
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