News tagged with zodiacal dust
Source of zodiac glow identified
(PhysOrg.com) -- The eerie glow that straddles the night time zodiac in the eastern sky is no longer a mystery. First explained by Joshua Childrey in 1661 as sunlight scattered in our direction by dust particles ...
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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NASA considers sending a telescope to outer solar system
Light pollution in our inner solar system, from both the nearby glow of the Sun and the hazy zodiacal glow from dust ground up in the asteroid belt, has long stymied cosmologists looking for a clearer take ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Planets smashed into dust near supermassive black holes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fat doughnut-shaped dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed crashes between planets and asteroids, according to a new theory from ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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VST looks at the Leo Triplet -- and beyond
(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge image, from the new VLT Survey Telescope (VST) and its camera OmegaCAM at ESO's Paranal Observatory, shows a triplet of bright galaxies in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). But the ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Our unlikely solar system
Recent modeling of solar mass stars with planetary systems, found that a system with four rocky planets and four gas giants in stable orbits – and only a sparsely populated outer belt of planetesimals ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Life in the North American nebula provides new view
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Feb 11, 2011 |
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STAR TRAK for February 2011
Jupiter will be the only bright planet visible as evening twilight fades during February, coming into view in the southwest. At mid-northern latitudes, this will be the last month until July when Jupiter will ...
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Feb 03, 2011 |
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Spiral galaxies stripped bare
Six spectacular spiral galaxies are seen in a clear new light in images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The pictures were taken in infrared light, using the ...
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Exoplanet caught on the move (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. It is located about 60 light-years away towards the ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- In exploration, sometimes you find more than what you're looking for, including things that shouldn’t be there. As the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited over the night side of the moon, with the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought ...
Feb 02, 2010 |
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