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Observations of the jovian planet’s returning belt will help scientists better understand the interaction between Jupiter’s winds and cloud chemistry.
Published: November 29, 2010
Rare alignment of the orbits of two stars in a double star system allows measurement of Cepheid mass with unprecedented accuracy.
Published: November 24, 2010
A star system with a cool methane-rich T-dwarf star and a dying white dwarf stellar remnant in orbit around each other gives scientists the first good handle on T-dwarfs’ mass and age.
Published: November 23, 2010
Sandage is best known for determining the first reasonably accurate value for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.
Published: November 17, 2010
A bright source of X-rays that has remained steady during observation from 1995 to 2007 suggests the object is a black hole being fed either by material falling into it from a supernova or a binary companion.
Published: November 15, 2010
Images from the November 4 Comet 103P/Hartley flyby show spectacular jets of gas and particles bursting from many distinct spots on the surface of the comet.
Published: November 11, 2010
The Galaxy Zoo 2 project helped an international team of scientists discover that bars in many spiral galaxies could be helping kill these star cities off.
Published: November 9, 2010
The red colors of one particularly interesting group of objects — the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt — could come from organic materials in the layer just under the crust.
Published: November 1, 2010
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