Venus' Morphing Vortex Trumps Saturn's Hexagon & 7 new articles...

Venus' Morphing Vortex Trumps Saturn's Hexagon & 7 new articles... For more information about Updates, Click on the titles: Beyond Hubble! Internet Space Observatory to Open a Movie-like Window on the Universe "LSST is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore it. The 8.4-metre LSST telescope and the 3-gigapixel camera are thus a shared resource for all humanity...

Venus' Morphing Vortex Trumps Saturn's Hexagon New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole (left). This fast-moving feature is all the more surprising since its centre...

Search for Earth's Twin: Kepler Zeroes in on Milky Way's Sun-Like Stars NASA's epic Kepler Mission is studying sun-like stars by tracking changes in their brightness, or their oscillations in their hunt for Twin Earth's in the Milky Way. The mission has detected changes in brightness in 500 sun-like stars, giving astronomers...

Rare Binary White Dwarfs Will Resurrect as One New Star "These stars have already lived a full life. When they merge, they'll essentially be 'reborn' and enjoy a second life'" Smithsonian astronomer Mukremin Kilic (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) announcing the discovery. Astronomers have just discovered an amazing pair of white...

Were Titan's Volcanoes Shaped by Fire or Weather? Topography and surface composition data of Saturn's moon, Titan, have enabled scientists to make a recent best case yet in the outer solar system for an Earth-like volcano landform that erupts in ice. But in a newly published analysis, a...

Image of the Day: A Cosmic Crown of Red and Blue Supergiants This NASA image from November 2009 shows the most detailed view of star birth in the nearby spiral galaxy M83, nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel. The "eye" of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters,...

ISS Captures the Spectucular Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. This view was taken looking east as the station was flying approximately 100 kilometers off the Peruvian coast...

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