Category: Exoplanets
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Weekly Space Blog 7/6
Another busy week in space Cassini captures picture of Saturn Moon Janus This week Cassini returned a picture of one of Saturn’s small lumpy moon’s named Janus, the moon doesn’t have sufficient gravity to pull itself into a round shape as seen with most other moons. For more pictures of the moon check out the…
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Weekly Space Blog 6/29
Another busy week in space, here is this weeks blog. Saturn News Saturn was in the news twice this week, researches have discovered the mystery of the gigantic storm circling Saturn and a image capture by Cassini shows a propeller like structure in the rings. The researchers announced there findings based on analysis of images…
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Weekly Space Blog 6/15
This week SpaceX sign military agreement, Chinese Astronauts, Chris Hadfield, Opportunity and Kepler keep giving, and much more. SpaceX This week SpaceX signed a framework agreement for potential Military launches in the future. Under the agreement the air force will evaluate the Falcon v1.1 rocket over at least three launches as well as all the…
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Pale Blue Dot
This week during the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society a number of announcements were made about recent discoveries, today we will take a looks at some of these. One of the most significant is the announcement that almost every star in the galaxy has at least one planet orbiting it. Recently we discussed…
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NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets
Two weeks ago NASA announced the first planet is the habitable zone of another star. Yesterday they announced the discovery of the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone but they are the smallest exoplanets…