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WARNING: This is a non-conventional view of our solar system. If you can't handle that, please try to remain calm. It is OK for people to have different view... 
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Ancient, Saturn-like ring systems may have acted as assembly lines for natural satellites...
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With wrinkled crust and cracked filling, the unusual formations are unlike anything seen on other rocky planets...
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Scientists at the University of Leeds are looking to discover how dust particles in the solar system interact with the Earth's atmosphere.
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For years, scientists have thought a bow “shock” formed ahead of our solar system’s heliosphere as it moved through interstellar space – similar to the sonic boom made by a jet breaking the sound barrier.
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Our solar system is four and a half billion years old, but its formation may have occurred over a shorter period of time than we previously thought, say researchers. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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Complex organic compounds, including many important to life on Earth, were readily produced under conditions that likely prevailed in the primordial solar system.
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Computer simulations have revealed a plausible explanation for a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers: Rather than occupying orbits at regular distances from a star, giant gas planets similar to Jupiter and Saturn appear to prefer to occupy certain regions in mature solar systems while staying clear of others.
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A currently popular idea is that many universes exist, each having its own set of physical laws. A 2011 study suggests that even a slight change in the laws of nature means they weren't ‘set in stone' when our Universe was born. The laws of nature we see may depend on our ‘space-time address' - -when and where you happen to live in the Universe.
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NASA's Kepler Mission astronomers are looking for environments that make complex chemistry viable --pathways to life in the Universe.
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Researchers harness Jaguar and Kraken to better understand solar storm/magnetosphere interaction
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We are all star stuff, as Carl Sagan once so eloquently put it--we come from remnants, the leftover pieces of long-dead stars and the elements forged
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You could call this "Pac-Man, the Sequel." Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys.
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An unseen world might be disturbing the orbits of several objects in the outer solar system, new calculations hint.
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If gravity is so attractive, why doesn't the earth just crash into the sun? Or the moon into the earth? The answer: Stable Orbits Articles about SOLAR SYSTEM http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=Solar%20System
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For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. ...
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Pulling together decades of data from the Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizon probes, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists at the US Geological Survey have put together a complete geological map of Io, the beautiful, mysterious Jovian moon. Io is the most volcanically active object in the solar system, and its surface reflects that: unlike everything else around, it has no craters, a sign that its surface is constantly being remade. That’s thanks to volcanoes that shoot out more than 100 times more lava per year than Earth’s.
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This sure is a nice planet we have here — but we shouldn't get to attached to it. Nothing lasts forever: Not our planet, not our solar system, not even the entire universe.
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Using classical physics, the laws of thermodynamics and mechanics, Hofmeister, with assistance from Criss, presents an accretion model that assumes a three-dimensional (3-D) gas cloud. This pre-solar nebula collapses and forms the Sun and planets at essentially the same time, with the planets contracting toward the Sun.
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Sunspots are darkened patches on the sun that are not well understood.
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"Our solar system is different than the space right outside it, suggesting two possibilities," says David McComas, IBEX principal investigator in a statement. "Either the solar system evolved in a separate, more oxygen-rich part of the galaxy than where we currently reside, or a great deal of critical, life-giving oxygen lies trapped in interstellar dust grains or ices, unable to move freely throughout space."
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