There are sightings of an asteroid going over the states Washington and Oregon, as well as Canadian's province British Columbia. The sitings were told to be "fireballs" in the sky around 8 pm local time on...
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"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...
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"The German space agency DLR said modelling showed there must be more than 1,000 such objects more than 100 metres wide, but only nine have been discovered so far.It spoke as the centenary approaches of the June 30, 1908 Tunguska Event.The DLR said its interpretation of that...
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The newly-found planet is relatively Earth-sized, which is cool because researchers think it's more likely to host life."Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a...
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... What'd you think I meant? Oh, please. Don't be so juvenile. To the right we have an image captured by NASAs Hubble telescope, depicting a side-on view of the distant planet's thirteen rings. Here's a link to a...
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"BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Some 3,000 astronomers are now dabating in Prague, the Czech Republic, and expected to vote on Friday a newly proposed definition of "planet."
For the first time, a high-level committee of the International Astronomical Union was...
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