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    News Corner: 5Th Edition - The Moonwalk

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    The document summarizes several recent discoveries in astronomy: 1) Hubble discovered the smallest object ever seen in the Kuiper Belt, just 3,200 feet across. 2) Astronomers discovered the first rocky, Earth-like exoplanet CoRoT-7b but found it to be uninhabitable due to extreme temperatures. 3) Cassini directly observed liquid on Titan's surface, confirming the presence of liquid hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon.

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    6 2010

    Smallest object in Kuiper


    NEWS CORNER
    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object (just 3200 feet across) ever
    seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, which is a vast ring of icy debris encircling the outer rim
    of the solar system.

    Earth-like exoplanet found


    Astronomers have discovered the first 'rocky' and 'earth-like' exoplanet - CoRoT - 7b, but have fond
    it to be uninhabitable on account of extreme temperatures ( -210 degree Celsius to 2200 degree
    Celsius). They also expect the planet to exhibit volcanism due to its closeness to its star and its
    probably non-circular orbit.

    liquid on Titan confirmed

    After having theorized for the last 20 years that Titan's surface hosts seas and lakes of liquid
    hydrocarbons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has finally captured the first flash of sunlight reflected
    off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon.

    image of pulsar obatained


    This image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows high-energy X-rays emanating from the
    nebula around PSR B1509-58, a dying but powerful star called as pulsars, colored blue to reveal a
    structure resembling a hand reaching for some eternal red cosmic light. This scene, which spans
    150 light-years, is about 17,000 light years away, so what we see now is how it actually looked
    17,000 years ago, and that light is just arriving here.

    5 exoplanets detected

    NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has detected its first five exoplanets
    named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b ,7b and 8b, which range in size from 4 times
    the radius of Earth to planets bigger than Jupiter. Their proximity to
    their host star give them very high temperatures like molten lava and
    a very short revolution time(less than 5 days).

    5th Edition|The MoonWalk

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