See Jupiter’s Newly-discovered Tiny Moon in Motion
S/2010 J 1 in motion Sept. 8, 2010. Animation is sped up by a factor of 2000. The actual time between each image in the animation is roughly 38 minutes. (Photo:Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)...
View ArticleEvidence of Water Vapor Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Artist’s rendition of the water vapor spewing from dwarf planet Ceres, which is shown in its orbit around the sun. (IMCCE-Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/Y.Gominet) Scientists have found signs of water...
View ArticleScience Scanner: Voters Say Pluto is a Planet, Sense of Touch Explored,...
Computer-augmented map of Pluto in rotation (NASA/ESA) People Vote to Make Pluto a Planet Again Until 2006, school children were taught – and most people considered the matter settled – that Pluto is...
View ArticleNew Sunspot Index Breaks Link Between Solar Activity and Climate Change
Large field-of-view image of sunspots. The image has been colored yellow for aesthetic reasons. (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) A newly updated analysis of sunspot numbers over the last 400 years...
View ArticleSee Jupiter’s Newly-discovered Tiny Moon in Motion
S/2010 J 1 in motion Sept. 8, 2010. Animation is sped up by a factor of 2000. The actual time between each image in the animation is roughly 38 minutes. (Photo:Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)...
View ArticleEvidence of Water Vapor Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Artist’s rendition of the water vapor spewing from dwarf planet Ceres, which is shown in its orbit around the sun. (IMCCE-Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/Y.Gominet) Scientists have found signs of water...
View ArticleScience Scanner: Voters Say Pluto is a Planet, Sense of Touch Explored,...
Computer-augmented map of Pluto in rotation (NASA/ESA) People Vote to Make Pluto a Planet Again Until 2006, school children were taught – and most people considered the matter settled – that Pluto is...
View ArticleNew Sunspot Index Breaks Link Between Solar Activity and Climate Change
Large field-of-view image of sunspots. The image has been colored yellow for aesthetic reasons. (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) A newly updated analysis of sunspot numbers over the last 400 years...
View ArticleAstronomers Discover A Dozen New Jovian Moons
As a team of astronomers was looking beyond Pluto for the mysterious Planet 9. So far they haven’t located the giant hypothetical planet, but they did wind up discovering a dozen new moons orbiting...
View ArticleStudy: Pluto Should Be a Planet!
On March 24, 2016, NASA released an image captured by its New Horizons spacecraft of what it says appears to be a frozen, former lake of liquid nitrogen. The feature is located in a mountain range just...
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