Tuesday, November 12, 2013

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


Martian moon samples will probably have bits of Mars too

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 11:05 AM PST

Researchers have helped to confirm the idea that the surface of Phobos contains tons of dust, soil, and rock blown off the Martian surface by large projectile impacts. That means a sample-return mission planned by the Russian space agency could sample two celestial bodies for the price of one.

Spitzer and ALMA reveal a star's bubbly birth

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 09:50 AM PST

Combined observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed the throes of stellar birth as never before in the well-studied object known as HH 46/47.

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