SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Fomalhaut B May Be a Dust Cloud
It may not be a planet at all. A reassessment of the Hubble space telescope's first photo of a planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting a nearby star, suggests that it may actually just be "scattered dust."
In other space news, NASA released the latest high-definition image of Earth: Blue Marble 2012. This one was taken "from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite--Suomi NPP," NASA says, and is a "composite image."
The latest solar storm has produced a spectacular light show in northern skies. The aurora borealis streaking across Alaskan skies this week captivated sky watchers.
A paper that reexamines "dark flow"--an unusual, one-way motion of matter--using measurements of supernovae and the existing laws of physics concludes that mysterious, unseen structures on the outskirts of creation most likely aren't tugging on our universe.
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