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SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star's "habitable zone," where life could exist -- possibly in oce.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 10:34am mrmdc

www.energystar.gov -- If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 4:42pm neoform

BBC News -- Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Jun 3, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own. Discovering a planet with a similar mass to that of Earth is considered the "holy grail" of research into planets.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Astronomers have been able to capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart. After decades of searching, researchers have used the world's top telescopes to observe the remarkable event. Previously, scientists had only.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- A tiny star recently unleashed what is considered the brightest burst of light ever seen in the universe from a normal star, astronomers announced today. Shining with only 1 percent of the sun's light and boasting just a third of the sun's mass, this r.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun. Martin Dominik, from St Andre.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- An embryonic planet detected in a far off galaxy could be less than 2,000 years old, astronomers say. The ball of dust and gas, which is in the process of turning into a Jupiter-like giant, was detected around the star HL Tau by a UK team. Research.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Astronomers in the US say they have found a new planet in orbit around a star 41 light years from Earth. The discovery brings to five the number of planets orbiting the star, 55 Cancri, the most found to date in a single solar system outside our own... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The most accurate catalogue of the distances to more than 100,000 stars has just been released. Cambridge astronomer Dr Floor van Leeuwen has spent the past 10 years checking and recalculating data gathered by the Hipparcos satellite. It collected t.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

BBC News -- Astronomers have found water vapour in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System. The detection in the extrasolar planet HD 189733b was made using Nasa's powerful Spitzer Space Telescope and is reported in the journal Nature. The tea.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 2:39pm neoform

BBC News -- The first image of the surface of a Sun-like star has been captured. It confirms that Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is a rapidly spinning, non-spherical body. Until now, telescopes have only been powerful enough to zoom in on.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 12:36pm neoform

Space.com -- For the first time, astronomers have discovered a planet far, far away that might be similar to Earth. This distant world, which pirouettes around a dim bulb of a star with the unglamorous name Gliese 581, may possibly sport a landscape that would be vagu.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue May 8, 2007 @ 12:16pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Nathan Smith, of the University of California at Berkeley, who led the discovery team, described SN 2006gy as "a special kind of supernova that has never been seen before". He called it "freakily massive" at 150 times the mass of the sun. "This on.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:59pm neoform

BBC News -- A class of "failed" star called a brown dwarf emits beams of radiation that are thousands of times brighter than any released by the Sun. The brown dwarfs are behaving like an altogether different and exotic cosmic object called a pulsar. Pulsars ar.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

BBC News -- Water has been detected for the first time in the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System. The planet, known as HD 209458b, is a Jupiter-like gas giant located 150 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. Other scientists reporte.. Read More