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nazia
nazia
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High School - 10th Grade

What is the latest discovery in space?

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Posted by nazia on Monday November 3, 2008 at 7:10 AM and tagged with astronomy, discovery, space.

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  1. get144 Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    the latest planet that was found is of a planet that can harvest water and life.

    the latest event is of a a nebulous girdle of dark matter that was found, which According to a scientist at John Hopkins university was most probably the corollary of a colossal cosmic crush that happened eons ago.

    This circle of hazy matter was discovered with the help of a Hubble Space Telescope, which took pictures that showed the ring of dark matter, which was supposedly a repercussion of the collision of two-galaxy clusters that happened about five-billion light-years farther from the Earth.

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    Posted by get144 on Monday November 3, 2008 at 12:40 PM

  2. hudsolaura
    hudsolaura Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Astronomers are gaining knowledge daily as they continue to receive IR and radio images from various satellites and probes in space. It is currently thought that dark matter is approximately 2/3rds of the universe although we don't really know what it is because we can not see it.

    In our solar system:
    -The latest addition to the plutoid classification of dwarf planets in our solar system was named MakeMake in July 2008.
    - 11-1-08 Cassini sends NASA striking images of Saturn's moon Enceladus revealing a tiger striped region and jet sources on the moon's south pole.

    Sources:
    http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Dw...

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    Posted by hudsolaura on Monday November 3, 2008 at 6:10 PM