32 New Planets Found By ESO's HARPS Spectrograph

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory  have discovered 32 new planets outside of our solar system using the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph. HARPS has now...

Jupiter

Jupiter, like Earth is a planet but it is a far different planet, and it is well worth studying."" Explanation: This sprawling dark marking is Jupiter's latest impact scar, a debris plume created as a...

Amateur astronomer discovers Jupiter collision

21 July, 2009– " Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, sits behind the solar system's largest planet, April 2007. Ganymede completes an orbit around Jupiter every seven days. (NASA: ESA/E Karkoschka (University of Arizona), fileman) " " An amateur astronomer from the small...

Giant "scar" on Jupiter spotted by amateur stargazer

Surprises and lot more surprises, it defines the solar system well.The more we look inside the more cofused it seems." A large comet or asteroid has slammed into the Jupiter, creating an impact site the size of Earth, pictures by an Australian amateur astronomer show. ...

Moons and Jupiter

A nice picture of the earth's moon with the planet of Jupiter in the background. "Explanation: Earth's Moon and planet Jupiter made a beautiful pairing in the night sky late last week. This skyscape recorded...

tonight in the sky of western australia

a very rare treat happen tonight in the sky of western australia (the moon smiling ,venus and jupiter) i just took the pic outside my home.you can see better with the eyes than with the camera.

Smiling Moon of Hope Shines down on Mumbai : Tonight December 1 2008

Update: December 5, 2008: 124 photos from across the globe have been added to this story and you are welcome to join this global club of hope. The geographical localities that I have been able to count are as...

Venus, Jupiter and the moon align this weekend

The striking photo to the left was taken in southern California... my own meager attempt is below.When seen from Reno, Nevada the sight was breathtaking.  As the sun went down , there in the west was this...

Cardiac surprise, cholesterol drug Crestor

What about this?  For real? " Crestor reduced the risk of heart-related death, heart attacks and other serious cardiac problems by 44% compared with those given placebos. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122623863454811545.html?mod=googlenews_wsj  "

China First!

"China First! To all Pakistanis:  When Beijing Olympics came under attack, a Chinese mountaineer took the torch to Mount Everest. There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese-Americans and British-Americans. But not one came out to stage-managed...

Bodies of two women found in UK flat after party

In what could prove to be a high-profile tabloid case, the bodies of two women have been found in an apartment in Birmingham, UK after a weekend party. Police are investigating several lines of inquiry, including a possible connection with a local escort agency. This...

Voyager pictures reveal Solar System is egg-shaped

"The outer limits of the system of planets around our own Sun, where the influence of our local star ends, are being probed by the Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977 on a five year mission to study...

Joint US-European solar mission ends

"Washington (ANTARA News) - After more than 17 years of studying the Sun, a joint effort by the US and European space agencies is set to end Tuesday. The Ulysses solar mission has far outlived its predicted life span, but declining power to propel the craft has prompted the...

Electric Currents Over Crustal Magnetic Anomalies Implicated in Martian Auroras

Mars is more-or-less a dead planet. Its atmosphere is thin, its magnetic field is nearly non-existent. But, it hasn't yet given up the ghost completely. There is still remnant crustal magnetism in the southern...

Solar System's 'look-alike' found

This is somewhat amaming news, where another looks alike solar system has been discovered. The search of extra terrestrial intelligents still progressive. May be there will be life in beyond our planet."They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn...

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