News tagged with binary asteroids
Getting WISE About Nemesis
Is our Sun part of a binary star system? An unseen companion star, nicknamed 'Nemesis,' may be sending comets towards Earth. If Nemesis exists, NASA's new WISE telescope should be able to spot it.
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Asteroid Vesta floats in space in high resolution 3-D
The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies Eastern Hemisphere taken by NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Orbiter.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Astronomers release unprecedented data set on celestial objects that brighten and dim
Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars and other ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year by Science
The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Swift finds a gamma-ray burst with a dual personality (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Chandra adds to black hole birth announcement
New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of scientists who used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as from ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Forget exoplanets. Let's talk exomoons
It wasn’t that long ago that astronomers began discovering the first planets around other stars. But as the field of exoplanetary astronomy explodes, astronomers have begun looking to the future and considering ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Spinning hourglass object may be the first of many to be discovered in the Kuiper belt
(PhysOrg.com) -- The bizarre, hourglass-shaped Kuiper belt object 2001QG298 spins round like a propeller as it orbits the Sun, according to an astronomer from Queens University Belfast. The discovery that ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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How Kleopatra got its moons
The asteroid Kleopatra, like its namesake, the last pharaoh and queen of Egypt, gave birth to twins – two moons probably spawned by the asteroid sometime in the past 100 million years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Can WISE find the hypothetical 'Tyche'?
(PhysOrg.com) -- In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than ...
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Destroyer of worlds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers, in addition to discovering extrasolar planets (about 500 of them currently have known orbital parameters), have detected excess, warm infrared dust emission around many stars.
Sep 24, 2010 |
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