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The International Astronomical Union's brilliant, byzantine and sometimes marvelously nerdy naming guidelines help bring order to our crowded skies.

Our solar system's oldest and biggest planet, Jupiter, has many moons. And astronomers have just announced the discovery of a dozen more. On Tuesday, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center published the orbits for 12 newfound Jovian moons -- bringing Jupiter's total to 79 moons, said Scott Sheppard, a scientist at the Carnegie I...

A dozen new moons have been discovered around Jupiter, bringing its total number of known moons to 79, the most of any planet in our solar system, astronomers announced Tuesday. One of the new moons was described as a "real oddball" by researcher Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science, because of its tiny size, it measuring just abo...

"Senapathy Gopalakrishnan has donated $1.8 million to CMU to establish a research partnership between CMU and the Center for Brain Research (CBR) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore," a statement said today.

The International Astronomical Union's brilliant, byzantine and sometimes marvelously nerdy naming guidelines help bring order to our crowded skies.

Our solar system's oldest and biggest planet, Jupiter, has many moons. And astronomers have just announced the discovery of a dozen more. On Tuesday, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center published the orbits for 12 newfound Jovian moons -- bringing Jupiter's total to 79 moons, said Scott Sheppard, a scientist at the Carnegie I...

A dozen new moons have been discovered around Jupiter, bringing its total number of known moons to 79, the most of any planet in our solar system, astronomers announced Tuesday. One of the new moons was described as a "real oddball" by researcher Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science, because of its tiny size, it measuring just abo...

"Senapathy Gopalakrishnan has donated $1.8 million to CMU to establish a research partnership between CMU and the Center for Brain Research (CBR) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore," a statement said today.