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Spitzer Space Telescope Finds Planet Smash-Up Sending Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava Flying

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The Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star which left vaporized rock and flying lava in the wake.

Titan is a Gas

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Recent published results concerning Titan and its methane atmosphere and lakes.

Kepler works!

The Kepler Mission confirms that it is able to detect extrasolar planets.

To B[e] or not to B[e]

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The B[e] giant star HD 87643 turns out to be two stars going around each other every 50 years.

Finding Galaxy Clusters with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

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Astronomers find three new galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.

And you shall know them by their color-color diagrams

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Using photometry could provide a much faster method to identify active galactic nuclei compared to using spectrography.

Enceladus: More Evidence of Liquid Water

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Ammonia in the plumes of Enceladus indicates the presence of liquid water on the Saturnian moon.

Hubble pix at Jupiter’s scar

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The Hubble Space Telescope interrupts its instrumentation calibration to image the impact remnant on Jupiter with the Wide Field Camera 3.

The Lowdown on Jupiter’s Black Eye

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How the Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed that the dark spot on Jupiter discovered by an amateur astronomer was an impact.

Shorter days for Saturn

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An analysis of the winds of Saturn suggests that its day lasts 10 hours, 34 minutes, and 13 seconds, which is about five minutes shorter than what was measured by the Voyager spacecraft.

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