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The Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant26 May, 2008 09:18 am The remains of the most recent supernova in our Milky Way galaxy, about 150 years ago at most, have been identified from radio and X-ray observations.New Organic Molecule in Space1 Apr, 2008 01:07 pm Scientists detect amino acetonitrile near the center of our Milky WayThe Mystery of the Auroras13 Mar, 2008 01:01 am The arrival of spring heralds a season for enthusiasts to observe aurora borealis.Just Plain Weird: An Odd Star Proves to Be a New Type of Object5 Dec, 2007 10:35 am On the night after Thanksgiving two years ago, I was at the Keck Telescope, trying to identify some very blue objects in the sky...Ad Astra! News and Discoveries from the the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn29 Oct, 2007 01:01 pm The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched on 15 October 1997; 10 years later, we speak to Professor Andrew Coates, head of Planetary Science Group in the...Late Stages of Planetary System Evolution: the Case of V 391 Peg b12 Oct, 2007 11:15 am Exoplanets are of high interest, not only because questions regarding alien life in the universe have accompanied humanity for a long time,...?Water is There!?11 Jul, 2007 07:01 pm Giovanna Tinetti, lead author of a study published today in Nature, reports presence of water in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet."We Are Too Earth-Centric in Our Search for Alien Life"11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm The American National Research Council published last week a report entitled ?The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems? suggesting that ?..."Our Job is to Find Another Earth"3 May, 2007 12:05 pm St?phane Udry is the lead-author of a study issued last week reporting the finding of a habitable Earth-like planet. He answers Scitizen?s questions.[VIDEO] Astronomers Find First Earth-Like Planet in Habitable Zone3 May, 2007 12:05 pm A video by ESOVideo : Emission Spectra of Extrasolar Planets16 Apr, 2007 02:22 pm We recently published an article by Jeremy Richardson describing "the first measured emission spectrum from two different planets orbiting other stars"...Another "First": Emission Spectra of Extrasolar Planets22 Mar, 2007 11:21 am The rapidly-evolving field of research in extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) has achieved another milestone, with the announcement of the first measured...COROT - First Spacecraft To Search for Earth-like, Rocky Planets27 Dec, 2006 06:55 pm The first spacecraft devoted to searching for planets like Earth, COROT, will be launched December 27th. The mission will last two and a half years...Night and Day on an Alien World: Spitzer's Hidden Universe18 Nov, 2006 03:18 pm Astronomers have for the first time measured the temperatures varying across the surface of a planet beyond our solar system.?This Kind of Planet Had Never Been Seen Before?19 Oct, 2006 04:15 pm Kailash Sahu is the leading author of a report published Nature in which he describes the finding of 16 new extrasolar planets in the center of the Milky...?35% of the Giant Planets Could Form Planets Like the Earth in the Habitable Zone?11 Oct, 2006 01:24 pm Sean Raymond is co-author of a report published recently in Science, in which he describes how Earth-mass planets can form during the ?...?In the coming years we might be able to detect smaller planets and maybe approach what could be a telluric planet in the habitable zone?8 Jun, 2006 08:39 pm Christophe Lovis is co-author of an report published in Nature describing the discovery of three new extra-solar planets orbiting a star nearby [1]...Planets Birth Around Dead Stars: the First Proofs!14 Apr, 2006 07:03 pm NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes. The infrared telescope surveyed the scene... |