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Closest Encounter With Jupiter Until 2022Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 16, 2010 Been outside at midnight lately? There's something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade--and it is dazzling. The night of closest approach is Sept. 20-21st. This is also called "the night of opposition" because Jupiter will be opposite the sun, rising at sunset and soaring overhead at midnight. Among all denizens of the midnight sky, only the Moon itself will be brighter. Earth-Jupiter encounters happen e ... read more |
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Seattle (UPI) Sep 9, 2010 A U.S. space telescope set for launch in 2014 could reveal the presence of oceans on planets outside the solar system, scientists say. Detecting water on Earth-like planets would offer the tantalizing prospect they could sustain life, and scientists hope the reflection of light, or "glint", from mirror-like ocean surfaces could be picked up by the upcoming generation of space telescopes ... more  
Evora, Portugal (SPX) Sep 13, 2010The existence of Dark Matter particles in the Sun's interior seems inevitable, despite dark matter never having been observed (there or elsewhere), despite intensive ongoing searches. Once gravitationally captured by the Sun, these particles tend to accumulate in its core. In a paper to be published in the scientific journal " Science", Dr. Ilidio Lopes and Professor Joseph Silk propose th ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2010Amateur astronomers working with professional astronomers have spotted two fireballs lighting up Jupiter's atmosphere this summer, marking the first time Earth-based telescopes have captured relatively small objects burning up in the atmosphere of the giant planet. The two fireballs - which produced bright freckles on Jupiter that were visible through backyard telescopes - occurred on June ... more |
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Extreme X-ray Source Supports New Class Of Black HoleLeicester, UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2010 A group of international astronomers in the UK, France and the USA, led by the University of Leicester, have found proof to confirm the distance and brightness of the most extreme ultra-luminous X-ray source, which may herald a new type of Black Hole. The X-ray source, HLX-1, is the most extreme member of an extraordinary class of objects - the ultra-luminous X-ray sources - and is located in the galaxy ESO 243-49 at a distance of ~300 million light years from the Earth. The astronomers' fin ... read more |
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