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NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere (About.com)
Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity...
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Sun Is Not A Perfect Sphere, NASA Spacecraft Finds (Science Daily)
Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly increases its apparent oblateness: the sun's equatorial radius becomes slightly larger than its polar radius.
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Ramos faces Titanic battle (BBC News)
BBC Sport's Phil McNulty blogs on the crisis at White Hart Lane
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How Round Is The Sun (SpaceDaily)
by Dr. Tony Phillips Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 03, 2008 Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere.
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NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using NASA`s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin “cantaloupe skin” that significantly increases its apparent oblateness: the sun`s equatorial radius becomes slightly larger than its polar radius. Their results appear ...
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Dim But Visible: Seeking out Uranus (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
Here is a trivia question: How many planets are visible without a telescope? Most will answer "five" (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). Some might answer "six" and include the Earth in the mix. Six, in fact, is the correct number, but if you exclude our own world, there is indeed one other planet that can be spied without optical aid: the planet Uranus.
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Potato country (Boston Globe)
It was 4:30 a.m., and they were already talking potatoes at a small television station on the outskirts of town. In the waning hours of summer, with the thermometer struggling to reach 28 degrees, I arrived half asleep and half frozen to listen to the conversation firsthand.
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Uranus poses challenge for planet fans (MSNBC)
Uranus, the planet that's hardest to spot with the naked eye, is favorably placed for viewing in the evening sky — that is, if you know where to look.
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Cassiopeia's and the Dipper's unending ballet (Boston Globe)
High in the northeastern sky these October evenings, over trees turning autumn brown, sparkles one of the best-known and easiest-to-spot constellations, Cassiopeia. Look for a broad W-shaped pattern of five fairly bright stars. The W looks like it was drawn by a diligent third-grader: uneven but clear. At this time of year, the right side of the W (its brighter ...
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Bugs in your iPhone? Blame Mercury (MSNBC)
Internet Astrology doyenne Susan Miller isn’t surprised the Hubble repair mission scheduled for early this month had to be postponed due to yet another malfunction on the space telescope. What did they expect? Mercury is in retrograde!
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