Search keyword(s): '
Judith Braffman-Miller'
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Astronomy |
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July 2011 |
Larger than some planets, Saturn's biggest moon indeed is a "Titan" of the solar system. |
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July 2013 |
The grand finale of Betelgeuse will be a spectacular show--full of sound and fury. Earth will have a front-row seat at this stellar farewell performance. |
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March 2011 |
"More than 100 moons circle planets in our solar system. Most of them are frozen bodies, composed of ices and rocky material. Yet, a few may not be lifeless after all." |
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July 2016 |
"A team of astronomers [has] announced that they [have] discovered a small substellar 'failure' called a brown dwarf that once had been a true star--before it was ravaged by its hungry white dwarf companions." |
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September 2016 |
"Gravitational wave astronomy is an emerging field that uses gravitational waves in order to obtain precious observational information concerning bodies (such as neutron stars and black holes), supernovae blasts, and cosmological processes…" |
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March 2015 |
"Nature is essentially allowing us to do the same thing that a child does when she shakes a wrapped gift in hopes of figuring out what's inside." |
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May 2015 |
The planet's "extreme and dramatic orbital eccentricity, in combination with its rotation rate of three times in two of its years, causes some strange things to occur." |
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January 2015 |
"Miranda long has presented itself as one of the most haunting of myriad mysteries of the outer solar system, where some strange things happened a very long time ago." |
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November 2011 |
"The end would not be pretty--all of the nuceli of all the atoms of Earth might morph into strange matter, and our entire planet would be converted into an enormous and extremely hot glob." |
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January 2014 |
"Although comets and asteroids represent two distinct populations of relatively small objects that dance around the sun, certain members of the two groups have masked their secrety very well and cannot easily be categorized as either one or the other." |
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May 2010 |
". . . We stand trembling on the brink of revolutionary scientific discoveries about how our universe operates." |
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July 2018 |
"Ahuna Mons rises 13,000 feet and is 11 miles wide at its base. This certainlyw ould be an impressively large volcano on our own planet, but [the dwarf planet] Ceres is less than 600 miles wide." |
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Astronomy |
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January 2012 |
"A much smaller second moon may have twirled around our planet long ago, before it crashed into the moon that we now know and love." |
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