Feb 22
A watery planet discovered
It's called GJ1214b, and is
located 40 light years away
in the constellation of
Ophiuchus, it has a diameter
of about 35,000 km and
orbits its red dwarf
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Feb 20
The violent centre of Arp 220
Arp 220 is an extremely
luminous galaxy merger, made
up of two galaxies that are
coalescing. The merger
process has triggered
extremely rapid star
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Feb 17
APEX sees new stars in dark,
dusty clouds
With the Atacama Pathfinder
Experiment (APEX), a proof
of concept instrument for
ALMA (the Atacama Large
Millimetre-sub
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Feb 15
Missouri amateur discovers
comet
It's called C/2012 C2
(Bruenjes) and is the latest
comet to be discovered by an
amateur astronomer,
something getting more and
more difficult to
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Feb 13 Discovered: 2 new moons of Jupiter
Scott Sheppard (Department
of Terrestrial Magnetism at
the Carnegie Institution of
Science in Washington,
D.C.), already discoverer of
many
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Feb 10
HiRISE sees Phoenix and the Spirit lander
The exceptional resolution
of the High Resolution
Imaging Science Experiment
camera (HiRISE) on board the
Mars
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Feb 8
More evidence for ancient Martian oceans
Over two years of analysis
of data recorded by MARSIS
(Mars Advanced Radar for
Subsurface and Ionosphere
Sounding) on
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Feb 6
Mars has been arid for over 600 m.y.
This is the conclusion that
has been reached by one of
the 24 teams of researchers
working on the analysis of
soil samples taken by the
Phoenix
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Feb 2
The first lunar images from GRAIL
The pair of probes making up
NASA's Gravity Recovery And
Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
have begun testing their
instruments and taking their
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