The largest ring in the solar system has been found around Saturn by NASA's Spitzer Telescope. The source of the debris comprising the ring is thought to be Saturn's moon Phoebe that could release debris if hit by...
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General Motors (GM) has finally decided to stop production of its 24year old car brand Saturn. Announcing this on company's website GM CEO Fritz Henderson sounded disappointed. He said that the company...
Saturn's rings will disappear from our view today. Saturn's ring system was formed 4.5 billion years ago, and have been loaded with 35 trillion-trillion tons of ice, mud, boulders, and tiny moons. While the stack...
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Extra-terrestrial life in our solar system? Well new data showing that Saturn's moon Enceladus possibly has underground lakes of water open up the real possibility of life say German researchers in an article...
American Icon General Motors Corp.(GM) has gone bust.Yesterday,the motor giant,once hailed by Time as a symbol of American success, collapsed in landmark Chapter 11 bankruptcy with 88,000 employees.Amid the worst...
opinion by WisdomMountain | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 181 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Well, it seems that Mercury and Earth aren't so dissimilar after all, at least in terms of their magnetospheric interactions with space. But, I wonder, when does anecdotal evidence cease being anecdotal and...
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Well, it seems they're finally figuring out that solar flares originate from powerful electric currents. "'Sigmoids' are S-shaped structures found in the outer atmosphere of the Sun (the corona), seen with X-ray...
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General Motors received another $2 billion in emergency loan from the U.S. Treasury department bringing the total to $15.4 billion of the taxpayer's money. It is expected that an announcement will be made to...
International scientists have found a tiny new moon hidden in one of Saturn's outer rings. It was first captured by cameras on board the Cassini spacecraft last August, and has since been seen on multiple...
General Motors has announced a restructuring plan "to survive the recession" that could cut as many as "47,000 jobs around the world and close five more U.S. factories". " The battered automaker is already surviving...
The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn since June 2004, sending back images and date of Saturn's ring system and of its moons. On a 2007 fly-by of the moon Titan, Cassini caught a glimpse of a lake,...
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"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...
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It is generally believed that falsifiability and predictive ability are two cornerstones of science. As a corollary, the critical experiment (experimentum crucis) is a widely accepted method of determining which...
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"The mission of Cassini spacecraft continues as it monitors the powerful electrical storm on Saturn, where the lightning is 10,000 times more powerful than the lightning on Earth."
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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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