Friday, December 6, 2013

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


NASA Goddard planetary instruments score a hat trick

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 03:56 PM PST

Planetary instruments from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., hit the trifecta on Dec. 4, running three experiments of the same kind at different places in space.

Astronomers discover planet that shouldn't be there

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:16 AM PST

Astronomers have discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. Weighing in at 11 times Jupiter's mass and orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance, planet HD 106906 b is unlike anything in our own Solar System and defies current planet formation theories.

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