01/08/2009
Giant planets have to grow up fast (MSNBC)
Compared to small, rocky worlds like Earth, Jupiter-class gas giant planets form quickly or not at all, a new study shows.
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01/08/2009
Jupiter-Sized Planets Grow Up Fast (Discovery Channel)
Gas giant planets like Jupiter have to form quickly or not at all, new research finds.
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01/07/2009
Asteroid dust in and around dead stars hints at Earth-like planets (New Kerala)
London, Jan 7 : Scientists have observed asteroid dust in and around a handful of dead stars, that is made up of similar materials as the Earth, which suggests Earth-like planets may be common in the Universe.
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01/06/2009
Alien asteroid dust hints at Earth-like planets (New Scientist)
Dust with a similar composition to the Earth has been found swaddling six stars, suggesting rocky planets may be common
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01/06/2009
Dead Stars Tell of Rocky Planets (Scientific American)
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] If we want to learn more about our planet and other planets in the universe, we can get some help from stars that are long dead and gone. That’s what U.C.L.A.’s Michael Jura said at the American Astronomical Society meeting January 5th. His team used observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to investigate dead white dwarf stars. ...
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01/08/2009
What the stars tell... (Deccan Herald)
C Sivaram talks about the evolution of astronomy, from discoveries of distant stars and planets to subatomic particles called neutrinos.
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01/06/2009
Jupiter-like planets may easily form around twin star systems (New Kerala)
Washington, Jan 6 : In a new study, astronomers have suggested that Jupiter-like planets may easily form around certain types of twin star systems.
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01/05/2009
Jupiter-like Planets Could Form Around Twin Suns (Science Daily)
Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field. Astronomers suggest that planets may easily form around certain types of twin star systems. A disk of molecules discovered orbiting a pair of twin young suns in the constellation Sagittarius strongly suggests that many such binary systems also host planets.
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01/05/2009
Jupiter-like planets could form around twin suns (EurekAlert!)
( Rochester Institute of Technology ) Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field. Joel Kastner and his team suggest that planets may easily form around certain types of twin star systems. A disk of molecules discovered orbiting a pair of twin young suns in the constellation Sagittarius strongly suggests that many such ...
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01/08/2009
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars (SpaceRef)
Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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