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Reddish Jovian Trojans travel in packs around the sun
WISE scientists have uncovered new clues in the ongoing mystery of the Jovian Trojans - asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter.
October 15, 2012
Photos from friends: The oldest moon October 14, 2012
Yay, several of you did take our challenge and spot the October 14, 2012 very old moon! Thank you, Peter Rodney Breaux, Lakshmi Ravishankar and Julie Gartman!
October 14, 2012
Will you see your oldest moon yet before sunrise October 14?
You will have to be outdoors very early in the morning - within an hour of sunup. You'll need a clear sky in the east, with no trees or tall buildings in the way.
October 13, 2012
Nearby super-Earth likely a diamond planet
A rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star might be a diamond planet.
October 11, 2012
Magnetic pole reversal not a sign of doomsday
Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.
October 11, 2012
Gallery of planetary nebulas from Chandra and Hubble
Our sun will become a planetary nebula, billions of years from now. So, in a way, looking at these images is like looking at our own sun's future.
October 10, 2012
Making sense of astronomical misconceptions
Shortly after posting my last blog, I was abducted by aliens who flew me to Thermoman's home planet of Ultron where I was taught secrets of the universe.
October 10, 2012
Probing Earth’s mysterious radiation belts
They're home to killer electrons, plasma waves, and intense electrical currents that can destroy satellites' electronics - and they're unpredicatable.
October 8, 2012
Satellite detects new black hole in our galaxy
The video in this post shows how NASA's Swift satellite made the discovery of a new black hole in our Milky Way, one of only about a dozen known.
October 6, 2012
If I had a boat, I’d sail Titan’s seas
On September 27, 2012, Spanish engineers presenting to the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid proposed to send a boat to Titan.
September 30, 2012
