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• Exoplanets Clue to Sun’s Curious Chemistry

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  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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• 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: 666
  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: 699
  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: 597
  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: 133
  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: 524
  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 ...
  10 hours ago

• Carnivalia — 11/04 – 11/10

  
  Sorting Out Science — Authority: 118
  The past weeks selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals...
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• ASTRONOMY PIX

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 522
    Sharpless 308 Explanation: Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major and covers over 2/3 degree on the sky (compared with 1/2 degree for the Full Moon). That corresponds to a diameter ...
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• Rapid star formation spotted in stellar nurseries of infant galaxies

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 614
  The Universes infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to scientists at Durham University. read more
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• Carnival of Space #128

  
  Music of the Spheres — Authority: 494
  The carnival of space hails this week from Melbourne, Australia (a nice place, I was there in 2006), even though the picture above shows scenes from Sydney (I liked it there too). AARTScope Blog presents a wide range of space and astronomy topics including a couple of cool videos.
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• November 11, 1572

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, the Danish nobleman, astrologer, and alchemist Tycho Brahe observed (from Herrevad Abbey) a very bright star, now named SN 1572, that had unexpectedly appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia.  Since it had been maintained since antiquity that the world beyond the orbit of the moon, i.e., that of the ...
  17 hours ago

• Beautiful Rings Wallpaper

  
  JackRebel.com — Authority: 126
  Are they Saturn’s Rings or just an artistic impression of them? Resolution: 1360×768. Type: Wallpapers | Author: twisted-critters | Download: Click Here
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• Galaxy and a Twist

  
  K-Squared Ramblings — Authority: 134
  Awesome, indeed! RT @BadAstronomer: Awesome awesome AWESOME pic of the Milky Way’s heart , by 3 magnificent observatories. # In a brilliant move, I have just twisted my shoulder funny 5 minutes before driving home. At least it’s the left shoulder. Still: Ow! # fb # Copyright © 2009 Kelson Vibber and/or ...
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• “So The Cosmos Can Know Itself”

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 500
  I have not much to say about this , except: Beauty. Via The Anchoress . Thank you, Ma’am. Thank you very much. No, wait, I do have a couple of things to say: The story of cosmology and evolution is the story told by the Stars and Stones, Cells and Bones. It is all one story, and its great power and beauty is ...
  19 hours ago

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