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Top Astronomy Events Coming Up in 2012

[/caption] As 2011 is drawing to a close, the festive season is here and many of us are winding down…

13 years ago

New Planet Kepler-21b Confirmed From Both Space And Ground

[/caption] Are you ready to add another planet to the growing list of discoveries? Thanks to work done by Steve…

13 years ago

New Features Discovered On Mercury Could Be Evidence Of Hydrogen Geysers And Metallic Iron

[/caption] How long has it been since you've taken a good look at Mercury? For the backyard astronomer, all we'll…

13 years ago

Planetary Pinball – Uranus Gets The “Tilt”

[/caption] Popular theory on how Uranus ended up with a highly eccentric axis has always been pretty standard - one…

13 years ago

“Extreme” Solar Wind Blasts Mercury’s Poles

[/caption] According to data from the The Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) onboard NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, the solar wind is…

13 years ago

Cassini’s Majestic Saturn Moon Quintet

[/caption] Check out this gorgeous new portrait of a Saturnian moon quintet taken by Earths’ emissary - NASA's Cassini Orbiter.…

13 years ago

Kepler Mission Discovers “Tatooine-like” Planet

[/caption] In a news conference today, Kepler mission scientists announced the first confirmed circumbinary planet ( a planet that orbits…

13 years ago

HARPS Hauls in Over Fifty New Exoplanets

[/caption] Yesterday astronomers with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher or HARPS, announced a record-breaking discovery of more than…

13 years ago

JPL’s ‘Muscle Car’ – MSL – Takes Center Stage

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is experiencing what could be dubbed a “summer of planetary exploration.” With the Juno…

13 years ago

In Their Own Words: Experts Talk Juno

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – Many experts took time out of their hectic schedules to talk with Universe Today in the…

13 years ago