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Starry Starry Skies.

Posted on March 21, 2014 by wfoster2011

March 21, 2014 – Starry Starry Skies: Astronomers have discovered two gas giant planets orbiting stars in the Beehive cluster, a collection of about 1,000 tightly packed stars. The planets are the first ever found around sun-like stars in a … Continue reading →

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Eccentric Habitable Zones.

Posted on September 12, 2012 by wfoster2011

September 12, 2012 – Eccentric Habitable Zones: While Earth and the other planets in our solar system travel around the sun in near-circular orbits, planets in other systems can have more comet-like orbits in which the distance from the planet … Continue reading →

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NASA to Hold News Conference About Nustar Launch – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Posted on May 25, 2012 by wfoster2011

May 25, 2012 – NASA to Launch Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR):  NuSTAR will observe some of the hottest, densest and most energetic objects in the universe, including black holes, their high-speed particle jets, ultra-dense neutron stars, supernova remnants and … Continue reading →

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