Topic: Douglas Hamilton
Iapetus has a dirty face, and it's getting dirtier every day. That's the conclusion of astronomers studying Saturn's oddest moon, a sort of yin-yang symbol in space that's almost pitch black on one side and icy bright on ...
Astronomers have found a giant planet orbiting so close to its parent star that it's bound to spiral inward to its doom or else be ripped to shreds by the star's gravity. Astronomer and co-author Andrew Collier Cameron of the ...
Phoebe has long been regarded as the black sheep of Saturn's major satellites. All of this has dynamicists thinking that Phoebe might have been captured by Saturn long ago.. Yesterday, at a meeting of planetary scientists in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Anne ...
An enormous new ring has been discovered around Saturn, made up of debris from the gas giant's distant moon Phoebe.. Astronomers have long suspected the presence of this ring, which orbits Saturn at a radius of about 8 million miles (13 ...
Iapetus has a dirty face, and it's getting dirtier every day. That's the conclusion of astronomers studying Saturn's oddest moon, a sort of yin-yang symbol in space that's almost pitch black on one side and icy bright on ...
Astronomers find planet so big and close to star it may be killing itselfAstronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet.The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large that it is triggering tremendous ...
A newly discovered planet that whips around its star in less than a day may have been found mere cosmic moments before its demise.. "Either the odds of finding it are really small, and we just got lucky," or there's something ...
Jupiter has a thin set of nearly imperceptible rings with features that have long puzzled scientists. "As they orbit about the planet, dust grains in the rings alternately discharge and charge when they pass through the planet's shadow," explained astronomer Douglas ...
SEC Charges 4 More Former Nortel Executives With Accounting FraudThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged four more former Nortel Networks Corp. executives with accounting fraud, alleging they manipulated reserves to change Nortel's earnings statements on the orders of ...
