Enduring Quests, Daring VIsions
NASA has recently released its ‘roadmap for astrophysics’. You can download a full .PDF version of it from NASA or from ArXiv.org. I highly recommend it! It’s quite an exciting […]
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Mass Determined for 60 Exoplanets
“An astronomer reports having measured the masses of approximately 60 exoplanets larger than Earth and smaller than Neptune. The measurements greatly expand scientists’ knowledge of sub-Neptune exoplanets because once the […]
Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds
Dec. 3, 2013 Using the powerful eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The […]