Search results for Neptune
Transit Search Finds Super-Neptune
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune ...
Galileo's notebooks may reveal secrets of new planet
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist.
Moist Convection Can Drive Jet Streams on All Four Giant Planets
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune – and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning ...
A warm South Pole? Yes, on Neptune!
Sep 18, 2007 |
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An international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope has discovered that the south pole of Neptune is much hotter than the rest of the planet. This is consistent with the fact that it is late ...
World's Largest Ocean Observatory Nears Completion
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Canada is about to take the world on a 25-year non-stop research expedition—into the deep ocean.
NEPTUNE Completes First Phase of Installation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The first phase of the new NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatory is being completed today off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Three new 'Trojan' asteroids found sharing Neptune's orbit
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) and the Gemini ...
Predicted Planet Seen -- First Since Neptune 162 Years Ago
Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006, astronomer Alice Quillen of the University of Rochester predicted that a planet of a particular size and orbit must lie within the dust of a nearby star. That planet has now been photographed by ...
Melting ice under pressure
Sep 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ice.
Solving solar system quandaries is simple: Just flip-flop the position of Uranus and Neptune
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Quick: What’s the order of the planets in the solar system? Need a little help? Maybe the following mnemonic rings a bell: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Pizzas.” It’s useful for remembering the ...
Mass Loss Leaves Close-In Exoplanets Exposed to the Core
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. The team found that planets ...
A trio of super-Earths
Jun 16, 2008 |
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Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they ...
Largest undersea observatory is planned
Oct 21, 2005 |
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Canadian and U.S. scientists are planning a project that could turn hundreds of thousands of square miles of sea floor into an undersea observatory.
Marine Geophysicists probe sea floor
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2007 |
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A team from U of T’s marine geophysics group is participating in a joint project to create the world’s largest cable-linked sea floor observatory on the Pacific Ocean floor.
New capture scenario explains origin of Neptune's oddball moon Triton
May 10, 2006 |
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Neptune's large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune. Triton is unique among all the large moons in the solar system because it orbits Neptune in a direction opposite ...
