| AVATAR'S 'PANDORA' COULD BE A REALITY | Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:37 pm by Admin | As James Cameron's animated sci-fi movie Avatar goes on general release, astronomers point out that the movie's habitable moon called "Pandora" may exist in reality.
Although none have been found to date, "exomoons" orbiting exoplanets are sure to exist. Could an exomoon be detected? If so, could that exomoon's atmosphere be probed? Yes and yes, according to today's …
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Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in Space | Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:33 pm by Admin | March 04, 2010
The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. Herschel is led by the European Space Agency with important participation from NASA.
The new data, obtained with the telescope's heterodyne instrument for the far infrared -- one of Herschel's …
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See Spot on Jupiter. See Spot Glow. | Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:29 pm by Admin | March 16, 2010
New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system.
The observations reveal that the reddest color of the Great Red Spot corresponds to a warm core within the otherwise cold storm …
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Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Titan | Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:28 pm by Admin | March 11, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. -- By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. The subtle gravitational tugs they measured suggest the interior has been too cold and sluggish to split completely into separate layers of ice and rock.
The finding, to be published in …
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WISE Captures a Cosmic Rose | Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:26 pm by Admin | March 16, 2010
A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. The stars, called the Berkeley 59 cluster, are the blue dots to the right of the image center. They are ripening out of the dust cloud from which they formed, and at just a few million years old, are young on stellar time scales.
The rosebud-like red …
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Planck Mission Images Galactic Web of Cold Dust | Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:24 pm by Admin | Tendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth of our universe.
Planck, a European Space Agency-led mission with important participation from NASA, launched into space in May 2009 from Kourou, French Guiana. The space telescope has almost finished its first of at least four separate scans …
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NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes | Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:21 pm by Admin | Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars came to be.
"We have found what are likely first-generation quasars, …
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