Tag Archives: Planetary science

NASA uses Supercomputer To Show Spiral Waves of Star Beta Pictoris

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A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that...

Hubble Space Telescope Spots The Behemoth

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Hubble is in the news again with yet another incredible find in space. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a huge cloud of hydrogen dubbed “The Behemoth” bleeding from a...

Solar Storm Hits Earth, Results Auroras

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NASA and the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center just revealed a solar storm has erupted from the sun as a powerful flare was formed from the surface. The flare reached it peaked around Tuesday...

Earth Enters 6th Mass Extinction

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Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment along with his fellow researchers have declared that the...

NASA stuns with Close-ups of Saturn Moons Titan and Dione

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NASA is these days almost daily releasing new stunning images from the planets and moons in our solar systems. Several spacecrafts are traveling space delivering data from what they "see" in space....

Saturn’s Phoebe Ring is Invisible

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Saturn’s largest ring is an enigma in itself. For one thing, it has been discovered that this ring has double the breadth that it was thought to have had once upon a time. And of course it cannot be...

Dwarf Planet Ceres Revealed by NASA in Video

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A novel video clip based upon images taken by NASA of the small planet Ceres came on the scene recently. The surface is pockmarked. The video clip was taken from Dawn’s mapping orbit. The more...

NOAA DSCOVR Satellite Reaches Deep Space Orbit

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More than 100 days after it launched, NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has reached its orbit position about one million miles from Earth.Once final instrument checks are...

Pluto Moon Charon and Pluto Form Binary Planet

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Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet has got a lot of attention, but Pluto's moons are equally interesting. A new study is the first to reveal details about the orbital and rotational patterns...