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IAU Issues Response To Uwingu’s Exoplanet Naming Campaign

April 12, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Given the popularity of the recent contest by Uwingu to suggest names for the closest known exoplanet to Earth (officially named Alpha Centauri Bb or ACBb for short), the International Astronomical Union has issued a statement about their stance on the [...]

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Pluto May Soon Have a Moon Named Vulcan (Thanks to William Shatner)

February 25, 2013

The votes have been tallied and the results are in from the SETI Institute’s Pluto Rocks Poll: “Vulcan” and “Cerberus” have come out on top for names for Pluto’s most recently-discovered moons, P4 and P5. After 450,324 votes cast over the past two weeks, Vulcan is the clear winner with a landslide 174,062 votes… due [...]

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“The Hobbit” Author Gets a Crater on Mercury

August 14, 2012

Here’s a little something to please fans of space, art and fantasy alike (and those who enjoy all three): on August 6 the International Astronomical Union approved names for 9 craters on Mercury, one of which is named for J.R.R. Tolkien, revered author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (among other seminal [...]

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Warhol Crater Gets Its 15 Minutes of Fame

May 14, 2012

As pop art icon Andy Warhol said, “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,”  and so here’s an image of the crater on Mercury that now bears his name, set up in the style of one of his multicolored silkscreens. Warhol is one of 23 craters on Mercury to be recently approved [...]

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More Surprises From Pluto

April 24, 2011

Ah, Pluto. Seems every time we think we’ve got it figured out, it has a new surprise to throw at us. Remove this ad

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