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Arecibo Observatory astronomers discover first near-Earth triple asteroid just 7 million miles away
Feb 14, 2008 |
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Once considered just your average single asteroid, 2001 SN263 has now been revealed as the first near-Earth triple asteroid ever found. The asteroid -- with three bodies orbiting each other -- was discovered ...
Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Asteroids with moons, which scientists call binary asteroids, are common in the solar system. A longstanding question has been how the majority of such moons are formed. In this week's issue of the journal ...
First detailed pictures of asteroid reveal bizarre system
Oct 12, 2006 |
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The first detailed images of a binary asteroid system reveal a bizarre world where the highest points on the surface are actually the lowest, and the two asteroids dance in each other's gravitational pull.
Even stars get fat -- And 'stellar cannibalism' is the reason
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Researchers have discovered evidence that blue stragglers in globular clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars. In other words, binary ...
New X-ray source in nearby galaxy spawns mystery
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Astronomers studying a nearby galaxy have spied a rare type of star system -- one that contains a black hole that suddenly began glowing brightly with X-rays.
Spitzer Finds Evidence for Planets with Four Parents
Jul 24, 2007 |
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How many stars does it take to "raise" a planet? In our own solar system, it took only one – our sun. However, new research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that planets might sometimes form in systems ...
Spitzer Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins
Mar 29, 2007 |
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The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy.
Astronomers discover pair of solar systems in the making
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Two University of Hawai'i at Mānoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral ...
Jupiter-like planets could form around twin suns
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field.
Scientists make quantum leap in developing faster computers
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have created a molecular device which could act as a building block for future generations of superfast computers.
Oddball stars explained
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New observations solve longstanding mystery of tipped rotation. In addition to shedding light on how binary stars form, the explanation knocks down a possible challenge to Einstein's theory ...
Astronomers catch binary star explosion inside nebula
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team led by UCL (University College London) researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published ...
Eccentric pulsar system challenges theories of binary formation
May 15, 2008 |
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An ongoing sky survey using the Cornell-managed Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has turned up a massive, fast-spinning binary pulsar with a mysterious elongated orbit, researchers say. The pulsar and ...
Engage YORP drive: Light Gives Asteroids Spin
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Astronomers have observed an asteroid change the rate at which it spins for the first time, and shown that this is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never before seen.
Research team maps cell interactions
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins make up the machinery of the cell. Their interaction with each other is responsible for how the cell functions within a living organism. Intrigued by what these interactions may look like, scientists ...
