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Comet Survives after Close Brush With the Sun
Comet Lovejoy, discovered a few weeks ago, was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures would hit several million degrees. Now we have word that the comet has miraculously...
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Comet Lovejoy Streaks Past Desert Telescope
On December 22, Guillaume Blanchard of the European Southern Observatory captured one amazing image that features two impressive objects together: comet Lovejoy and ESO’s Telescope, located in the...
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View the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower from Halley’s Comet
Star gazing fans will get to enjoy the peek display of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower from Halley’s Comet on the night of May 5 and into the morning of May 6. With ideal conditions, NASA is...
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Trajectory Models of Refractory Particles Help Solve Two Solar System Puzzles
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed the Solar System, solving two Solar System...
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ISON Comet May Become Brightest Object in the Night Skies
The comet ISON was recently discovered and it could possibly become the brightest object in the night skies. The comet was discovered a week ago by Russian astronomers and it’s currently between the...
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Trillions of Comet Collisions Explain 17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery
In a recently published study, scientists propose that the mysterious gas orbiting 49 CETI is similar to the sun’s Kuiper Belt and is a result of trillions of comets bashing into one another. Every...
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Comet 2013 A1 to Make a Very Close Flyby of Mars
Scientists have projected that comet 2013 A1 will make a very close approach to Mars in October 2014, possibly passing as close as 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) from the Red Planet’s surface. The...
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Astronomers Watch as Comet 2013 A1 Heads Towards Mars
Astronomers around the world are monitoring Comet 2013 A1, watching to see if it will strike Mars. In a new ScienceCast video, experts discuss what might happen if Comet 2013 A1 hits Mars. Over the...
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NASA’s Swift Helps Astronomers Get a Closer Look at Comet ISON
Astronomers have used NASA’s Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), revealing that ISON is shedding about 112,000 pounds (51,000 kg) of dust and about 130 pounds (60 kg) of water every...
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Hubble Captures Close-Up View of Comet ISON
NASA’s Hubble telescope captured close-up images of Comet ISON in early April, providing scientists with images to measure the activity level of the comet. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of...
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Study Suggests Life on Earth is the Result of Icy Comets
A newly published study suggests that life on earth may have started as a result of icy comets that crashed into Earth billions of years ago. Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump...
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NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program Discovers Ten Thousandth NEO
Researchers have now discovered 10,000 near-Earth asteroids and comets, with the 10,000th being a 1,000 foot (300 meters) asteroid called 2013 MZ5. More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass...
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Time-Lapse Video Captures Comet ISON Heading Toward the Sun
This short time-lapse video shows the comet ISON as it zooms toward the Sun at 48,000 mph. This July Fourth the solar system is showing off some fireworks of its own. Superficially resembling a...
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Comet ISON’s Journey Toward the Sun
This three minute video from NASA details and explains the journey of sungrazing comets, like comet ISON, as they round the sun. Comet ISON, which will round the sun on Nov. 28, 2013, at a distance of...
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Spitzer Views Gas Emissions From Comet ISON
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers observed gas emissions from Comet ISON, estimating that ISON is emitting about 1 million kilograms of what is most likely carbon dioxide gas and about...
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Astronomers Reveal the True Identity of Mysterious Centaurs
In a newly published study, astronomers used data from NEOWISE to reveal the true identity of centaurs that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune, finding that roughly two-thirds of the centaur...
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‘Lazarus Comets’ Return to Life after Being Inactive for Millions of Years
Scientists have discovered a graveyard of comets where some of the dormant objects, inactive for millions of years, have returned to life from an increase in the energy they received from the Sun. A...
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Astronomers Anticipate Comet ISON’s Close Flyby of Mars
This short ScienceCast video details the close encounter Comet ISON is expected to have with Mars. A new ScienceCast video anticipates Comet ISON’s close flyby of Mars on Oct. 1, 2013. Around the...
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Spitzer Reveals That Asteroid Don Quixote is a Comet
Data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope helped astronomers discover that the large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet. For 30 years, a large near-Earth asteroid wandered its lone,...
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Scientists Confirm that Life Really Could Have Come from Out of This World
A newly published study shows that the basic building blocks of life as we know it can be assembled anywhere in the Solar System, confirming that life on Earth really could have come from out of this...
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