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• Mysterious flashes on the moon and a very warm and green Mars!

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 146
  Found this stuff on the blog from last year, very interesting, especially as NASA claimed this week Mars had oceans ! Astronomer Arlin Crotts is trying to solve a 400-year-old puzzle. Ever since the invention of the telescope, said the Columbia University astrophysicist, observers around the world have ...
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• Comets Posing as Asteroids (or is the the other way around?)

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  Asteroids are rocky bodies which belong between Mars and Jupiter . Comets are icy bodies that belong way out beyond Pluto . So what are comet -like objects doing in the asteroid belt ? (...) Read the rest of Comets Posing as Asteroids (or is the the other way around?) (679 words) © jvois for Universe ...
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• NASA proposes robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 26 (ANI): NASA is proposing to build a robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars from the air, and has advertised for help building it. According to a report in the Telegraph, NASA scientists are proposing to build the Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Surveyor (ARES).Around the size of a small plane, ...
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• Awesome pictures from the Enceladus flyby

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 493
  It’s amazing how much we are finding out about other bodies in the solar system these days. And the images we get back from some of our robotic spaceships can be incredible. Here’s one taken by Cassini during a deep swoop past Enceladus , a moon of Saturn. This is an intriguing moon because it is thought to ...
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• Star Goes Rogue in Untimely Collision

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 146
  Its a solid doomsday prediction that in about 5 billion years the dying sun will expand as a bloated red giant and engulf the Earth. But imagine if in just a few weeks the middle-aged sun suddenly ballooned out to the orbit of Saturn and immediately vaporized Earth and most of the other planets in the solar system! ...
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• Plume diving on Enceladus

  
  Kentucky Space — Authority: 423
  A spectacular raw image from the November 21 Cassini flyby of Enceladus clearly shows the venting happening from the Saturn moon. Wayne Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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• Cold as Hell with a Chance of Dust Storms: Weather Movies from Mars

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  If you think about it, those hypnotizing patterns of swirling clouds you see in TV weather reports are pretty amazing: satellites let us see whats happening in the skies all over the world. But these days, that kind of global vision even goes beyond the Earth . The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter makes daily weather ...
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• Hot Jupiters Bully Super Earths

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  Bullies are everywhere and the universe is no exception. In our own solar system , Jupiter s mass is second only to that of the Sun . Its gravitational effects tug around a set of asteroids known as the Trojans and may prevent the asteroid belt from becoming anything more substantial. Fortunately, our humble ...
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• Solar Winds Triggered by Magnetic Fields

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  XRT Full Sun (Synoptic).Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.Scientists have long speculated on the source of solar ...
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• Solar System Collector

  
  Fyrebug Make Your Own Game! — Authority: 179
  Collect Stars, Moons and Earth.
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• What I thought of Twilight’s New Moon?

  
  Bitch Pleaz — Authority: 139
  Um, let me keep this short and sweet.Imagine Vampires took over Dawson’s Creek and every scene was a depressing, unrealistic close up of a love scene where virgins were aroused by holding hands and somehow the TV networks allowed a 3 hour version of the show.Now, hat will give you something close to what is [...]
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• New Photos! Saturns Enceladus in Raw Form

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 145
  NASAs Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has yielded yet another look at Enceladus, a moon of the ringed planet. "As promised, Cassini has delivered yet another rousingly successful encounter with Enceladus," explains Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for ...
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• New Moon opens to lackluster reviews, HUGE numbers at the box office

  
  Snarky Gossip — Authority: 425
  Sooo….who went and saw New Moon last night? I’m waiting until it shows up on DVD, yes, I’m cheap. New Moon opened up to extremely lackluster reviews; here are just a few: Early reviews at Rotten Tomatoes gave it a sad little 4.9 out of 10. Ouch. Roger Ebert says “Since they know it all and we know ...
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• Cassini/IBEX Data Changes View of Heliosphere Shape

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 667
  Though the Cassini mission has focused intently on scientific exploration of Saturn and its moons , data taken by the spacecraft has significantly changed the way astronomers think about the shape of our Solar System . As the Sun and planets travel through space , the bubble in which they reside has been ...
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• The Formation of Uranus and Neptune

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 134
  In a paper to be published in the planetary astronomy journal called Icarus, available online now here , astronomers explore the formation of the gas giant planets Uranus and Neptune. These astronomers point out that there is a difficulty explaining the location of these planets and their characteristics using the ...
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• Cassini’s Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 617
  When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is helping to rewrite our understanding of the shape of our solar system as it moves through the ...
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• Celestial Treasure Hunt – WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) to launch December 2009

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 140
  WISE is a NASA-funded Explorer mission that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies. NASA scientist Dr. Amy Mainzer describes how the Wide-field ...
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• Uranus Missing

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  If you happened to be the kid from Sarah Noble Intermediate School in New Milford who nicked Uranus from the newly installed $25,000 scale model solar system, the McCarthy Observatory volunteers want it back you little shit!
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• The Altered Face of our Solar System

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 145
  From Popular Mechanics Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the intervening decades, new instruments and methods have acted together to form one giant, ...
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• Japan Asteroid Explorer: Recovery Plan Underway (Update)

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 145
  Engineers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that their Hayabusa spacecraft will resume operations. The spacecraft encountered problems with its suite of ion engines. But thanks to some long-distance adjustments, the probe can maintain the current return cruise, JAXA has stated. "Enough ...
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