Solar System
“It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars.”
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If you always wanted to unify with the rhythm of the music you were listening to– totally forgetting the world around– Pluto+ loudspeakers are the best...
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Pluto has always been surrounded in controversies, earlier it was known as a planet, but less than a year ago some researchers claimed that Pluto was too small to be...
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After 13 months of take off this space craft named New Horizon reached Jupiter and has shot some incredible pics of this heavenly body. The pictures provide vital...
made popular May 3 2007
It has been seven months after a conclave of scientists downgraded Pluto to a “Dwarf Planet”. Now a New Mexico state representative aims to give the respect back to the...
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Spacecraft New Horizons’s encounter with Jupiter scheduled for late February is being eagerly awaited in scientific circles.
The space craft built by NASA is the...
made popular Jan 19 2007
No doubt, Hubble still dominates with its presence in the outer space but Mars rovers and ISS have also thrilled us with images out of this world. With all these space...
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There’s something revitalizing about the start of another year. Sure, we all become a year older but that’s something we all would like to celebrate. However, the...
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The new Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will soon be getting the Observatory Control System software, as its design study has just been completed by the...
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The first spacecraft designed to study Pluto, the solar system’s farthest planet, took the first steps on a long journey in January last year and now NASA’s New...
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With Pluto losing its planet-status, scientists have discovered an entirely new kind of planet — dubbed HAT-P-1. But, it does not resemble any known world in our...
made popular Sep 16 2006
The discovery of a distant, icy rock last year — 2003 UB313 – that has led to the demise of the former planet Pluto, has been official christened by the...
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Pluto is no more a planet. Gaurav has written an interesting post on the exclusion of Pluto from the category of Planet that ‘All work and no sex makes Pluto a...
made popular Aug 30 2006
Our solar system will be including at least 3 more planets in it with the adoption of the new definition of the word ‘Planet’. This will happen next week with the...
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After 1978, when Pluto is discovered to be accompanied by its moon Charon, it is in May 2005, astronomers discovered two more moons of the planet, which is about two to...
made popular Jun 23 2006
Recent photographs of the 10th planet 2003 UB313, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the planet is twice the size of Pluto. The picture with an image size...
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It was Clyde Tombaugh who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930. he was at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz then. This phenomenal discovery that opened a new...
made popular Feb 8 2006
Space is always eventful and to satisfy their impertinent minds, the scientists are always busy exploring the outer world with new probes and discoveries. Here are some...
made popular Feb 2 2006
Let’s explore on what the curious scientists have more come up with. Here are some of the latest findings surprising and keeping the astronomers busy.
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made popular Jan 17 2006
Explore the ever happening world of multiple stars systems. Curious scientists are up with their gloves dissecting the outer world with new probes and discoveries. Here...
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The NASA scientists are busy readying their spaceship to be launched on Pluto by the summer of 2015. It is scheduled to launch on Jan. 17. This mission will be the...
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Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system? Recent work at Cardiff University suggests that our system’s orbit through the Milky...
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Astronomers have discovered a distant “twin” solar system which looks very similar to our own.
So far researchers have identified two planets very similar...
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“In a very short time, we are going to be able to see a planet with the same mass as the Earth, although it’s going to be in an orbit much closer to its...
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Heavenly bodies like Sun, Moon and stars have always remained as mysterious and startling for all of us as everybody wanna explore and know about the mysticism and...
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The solar system is something that still remains a mystery for us. Our little minds are still busy exploring the mere origin of this vast universe. Yet, when a piece of...
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The solar system has been the subject of numerous studies till date. An interesting discovery made by Voyager space crafts found that the solar system is dented. This...
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The 400 light-years away open cluster in the constellation of Taurus and among the nearest to the Earth — Pleiades — seems to be ever happening, now that...
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The universe is a complex system of uncertainties and mysteries that no one till date has been able to crack. A watchmaker has made things easy for you to understand...
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Whenever we think about the planet we are inhibiting, a large massive body roaming around the sun comes to amaze us. However, Astrophysics are out to explore similar...
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Astronomers and Space scientists who have contributed greatly in the exploration of 28 new planets encircling different stars (just like Sun) have opined that our Solar...
made popular May 29 2007
Yet another new discovery of a planet has been made after its 14 ‘perhaps’ smaller siblings are spotted beyond our solar system. Unlike the other gas giants of the size...
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Don’t get deceived by their huge size like that of Jupiter. The gravititional strength of all the 14 known gas giant planets outside our solar system is surprisingly...
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Water is considered the key ingredient for the existence of life forms. Astronomers looking for life on the other planets in the solar system and elsewhere in the...
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According to researchers Meteorites that strike Earth contain important information about the evolution of the solar system.
More than 31,000 meteorites have been...
made popular Mar 29 2007
Recent studies have confirmed that the continuous bombardment of billions of tiny particles from the Sun can affect the spin of an asteroid.
The effect is not that...
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Asteroids and Comets are the biggest weapons of mass destruction that can never be built by humans. An asteroid just a couple of miles in diameter can almost completely...
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In a major discovery in astronomy researchers have discovered an asteroid belt beyond the solar system.
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