Thursday, November 29, 2012

Messenger spacecraft detect polar ice at Mercury

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The blazing hot surface of Mercury, 400 degrees Celsius during the day, might seen an unusual place to find water ice. But nighttime tempe...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Another fantastic Space Station video

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Follow this link to see another fantastic video of Space Station hardware in orbit above an amazing planet Earth. This movie was assembled...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Amazing video of atmospheric lights seen from ISS

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Follow this link to see a truly amazing video showing all sorts of atmospheric lighting that is seen by the astronauts onboard the Interna...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Dusty planetesimal ring orbiting star HR 4796 A

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This image of a circumstellar dust ring was recently acquired by C. Thalmann and colleagues at the 8 meter Subaru telescope that the Japane...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Planet formation and destruction via gravitational instability

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This graphic shows a computer simulation of a circumstellar disk that orbits a young star, with each snapshot showing the state of the disk ...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Spiral arms in disk suggests unseen planets

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This image of the disk that is in orbit about the young star SAO 206462 suggests that this disk might be perturbed by one or more unseen pla...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Vesta's rugged surface

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This image is a computerized rendering of what a hypothetical observer migth see when looking obliquely along the mountains and craters on t...