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EPSC Abstracts, Vol. 4, EPSC2009-xxxx (will be included after acceptance), 2009 European Planetary Science Congress, © Author(s) 2009 D. Tirsch (1) and R. Jaumann (1,2) (1) German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany, (2) Institute of Geological Sciences, Free University Berlin, Germany (Daniela.Tirsch@dlr.de /Fax: +49-30-67055402) Introduction The localization of former potentially habitable zones on Mars is …

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The inner, yellow portion of HD 61005's disc spans 8,7 billion km, or about the width of Neptune's orbit in our own solar system. This false-colour Hubble view masks the star's direct light to bring out detail in the disc. Image credit: Nasa/ESA/D Hines (Space Science Inst., New Mexico) and G Schneider (Univ. of Arizona) …

Warped debris discs around stars are blowing in the wind Read More »

The latest vista from ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project homes in on the central parts of our Milky Way Galaxy. Click for link to high resolution image. Image: ESO/S Guisard. DR EMILY BALDWIN ASTRONOMY NOW Posted: September 21, 2009 The European Southern Observatory has today released the second of three new breath-taking portraits showing the Milky …

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The Abell 370 galaxy cluster, seen here by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, is 5 billion light years from Earth. The cluster's gravity bends the light of galaxies that are even more distant, distorting and magnifying them in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. (Image: NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team/ST-ECF) The most dramatic example of gravitational lensing …

Upgraded Hubble telescope spies cosmic ‘dragon’ – New Scientist magazine Read More »

Cassini has found Titan's upper atmosphere to consist of a surprising number of layers of haze, as shown in this ultraviolet image of Titan's night-side limb, colourised to look like true colour. The many fine haze layers extend several hundred kilometres above the surface. Although this is a night side view, with only a thin …

Unravelling the chemistry of Titan’s hazy atmosphere Read More »