01/07/2009
Dead stars shed new light on planet birth (New Kerala)
Washington, Jan 6 : Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed six dead 'white dwarf' stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids, which may shed new light on the birth of planets.
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01/06/2009
Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth (SpaceRef)
Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids.
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01/05/2009
Habitable Exoplanets Could Be Common in Our Galaxy (Wired News)
Asteroids circling dead stars in the galaxy are made of the same stuff as Earth, raising the likelihood of more habitable, rocky planets. Astronomers used the Spitzer Space Telescope to study six dead "white dwarf" stars, and announced their findings at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
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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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01/06/2009
Dead stars are telling the story of planetary birth (Spaceflight Now)
PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids.
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01/05/2009
Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids. This might sound pretty bleak, but it turns out the chewed-up asteroids are teaching astronomers about the building materials of planets around ...
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01/05/2009
Dead Stars Tell Story Of Planet Birth (SpaceDaily)
by Staff Writers Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2009 Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets - dead stars. Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids.
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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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01/07/2009
China-Russia Mars mission set for takeoff (SpaceDaily)
The first joint Chinese-Russian mission to Mars is set to take off in October and reach the red planet in August 2010, an exploration project designer said.
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01/07/2009
Fermi Telescope Unveils A Dozen New Pulsars (SpaceDaily)
by Staff Writers Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 08, 2009 NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our understanding of how these stellar cinders work.
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