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Thu, 26/07/2012 - 16:46 by Minnie Mahendru
A solar system similar to ours? Is there possibility of life elsewhere? Yes, it is true, astrophysicists have discovered a solar system identically arranged like our own, ten thousand light years away from the Earth. The planets are lined up and arranged similarly to the ones in our own solar system.The sun’s equator is arranged in a line with orbital planes of the planets.
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Fri, 22/06/2012 - 14:13 by Minnie Mahendru
Kepler, NASA’s planet hunting spacecraft, used by the astrophysicists has unearthed an “unusual duo” of extra solar planets.The strange pair of planets have orbits near each other’s doorstep. The bigger of the two planets emerges to be more than two times the magnitude of the full moon found in the second “odd” planet’s night sky.
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Wed, 30/03/2011 - 13:40 by Cooshalle Wilson
The world’s leading U.S. space agency, NASA has released the first picture taken of Mercury’s surface by its messenger craft.
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Thu, 09/12/2010 - 11:16 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- U.S. astronomers say a giant planet found outside our solar system is highlighting the remarkable resemblances between a distant planetary system and our own.
Researchers at UCLA, along with international colleagues, discovered and imaged a fourth planet in a distant solar system that resembles a supersized version of our own system, a UCLA release said Wednesday.
"Besides having four giant planets, both systems also contain two 'debris belts' composed of small rocky or icy objects, along with lots of tiny dust particles," Benjamin Zuckerman, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy says.
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Wed, 08/12/2010 - 11:12 by Prince damin
Tokyo -- Japan says it is waiting to re-establish contact with its Akatsuki probe as it enters orbit around Venus after a six-month flight to the cloud-shrouded planet.
The main engine of the spacecraft was fired late Monday in a maneuver intended to allow the Venus' gravity to capture the probe.
Akatsuki then lost contact with Earth as it moved behind Venus, the BBC reported.
Japanese scientists said they would know by late Tuesday whether the operation to insert the satellite into the correct orbit had been successful.
The 1,100-pound spacecraft carries five cameras that are sensitive in the infrared and ultraviolet parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to allow studies of the planet's surface through the thick cloud cover.
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Fri, 26/11/2010 - 12:02 by Rakhi
Xichang, China -- China launched a Long March 3A carrier rocket Thursday, putting a communication satellite into orbit around the Earth, officials said.
The rocket was launched at 12:09 a.m. from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, Xinhua reported.
The "Zhongxing-20A" satellite is expected to improve China's radio and television broadcasts, officials at the launch center said in a statement.
It was the 135th launch of a Long March series rocket since April 24, 1970, the state-run news agency said.
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Wed, 24/11/2010 - 06:07 by Prince damin
Washington -- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued the first-ever license for a commercial spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit, officials say.
The license will allow the California-based company SpaceX to complete the first operational flight of the Dragon spacecraft during a NASA demonstration mission set for a Dec. 7 launch, Florida Today reported.
After its launch from Cape Canaveral atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the Dragon will orbit the planet twice before re-entering and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California.
"The flight of Dragon will be an important step toward commercial cargo delivery to the International Space Station," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said in a statement.
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Mon, 22/11/2010 - 11:36 by Anter Prakash Singh
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) released a press note saying that the Air Force has launched its spy satellite from Cape Canaveral station on Sunday at 5:58 p.m.
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Fri, 19/11/2010 - 11:11 by Anter Prakash Singh
European astronomers say that they have discovered a new planet orbiting a red star. Also, scientists claim that the planet is from another galaxy.
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Sat, 06/11/2010 - 10:31 by Rakhi
Beijing -- China put a navigation satellite in orbit in the 12th space launch of the year, eclipsing its own record for most space missions in a year, authorities said.
The launch Sunday of a Long March rocket broke the country's record of 11 launches of human, scientific and military missions China set in 2008, SPACE.com reported.
In addition to navigation satellites, China has launched three military reconnaissance satellites, a mapping satellite, a broadcasting satellite and its Chang 2 moon probe.
The record for this year could reach 15 as China plans three more launches by the end of December.
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Tue, 19/10/2010 - 09:20 by Rakhi
Tucson -- Astronomers in Chile say they've obtained images of a planet in a much closer orbit around its parent star than any other extrasolar planet previously found.
The discover was made possible by technology developed at the University of Arizona that blocks out certain parts of a star's light, allowing planets to be spotted from signals previously drowned out by the star's glare, ScienceDaily.com reported Sunday.
Installed on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile is a small piece of glass with a highly complex pattern inscribed into its surface.
Called an Apodizing Phase Plate, the device blocks out the starlight in a very defined way, its developers say.
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Fri, 17/09/2010 - 06:20 by Prince damin
Washington -- The International Space Station is to become a center for biological science in orbit, offering facilities to partners new to NASA, the U.S. space agency says.
New biomedical experiments to study how bones and the immune system weaken in space, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, will make use of the space station's unique orbital facilities and weightless environment, SPACE.com reported Thursday.
The NIH program takes advantage of the space station's 2005 designation by Congress as a U.S. National Laboratory for scientists from academia, the private sector and various government agencies.
The NIH effort is a landmark for NASA, Marybeth Edeen, manager of the space station's National Laboratory Office in Houston, said.
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