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November 22, 2012
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Satellite brought closer to Earth to work
Paris (UPI) Nov 20, 2012
A European gravity-mapping satellite orbiting about 340 miles closer to Earth than any other satellite is to be brought even lower and closer, officials say. The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE, launched by the European Space Agency in 2009, is to have its orbit lowered by 12 miles to improve the resolution of its data-gathering instruments, ESA officials said. Controllers have been reducing the height of the satellite's orbit by about 1,000 feet a day ... read more
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EXO LIFE

Lifting The Ceiling On Terran Lifeforms
The parachuting thrill-seeker Felix Baumgartner is not the only living thing to plunge through the jet stream. Recent studies have confirmed that microbes exist in the stratosphere, the atmosp ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Born-again star foreshadows fate of Solar System
Astronomers have found evidence for a dying Sun-like star coming briefly back to life after casting its gassy shells out into space, mimicking the possible fate our own Solar System faces in a few b ... more
EXO LIFE

NASA Innovator of Year Hunts for Extraterrestrial Amino Acids
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Finds Unusual Groups of Ridges and Troughs on Mercury
MESSENGER has discovered assemblages of tectonic landforms unlike any previously found on Mercury or elsewhere in the Solar System. The surface of Mercury is covered with deformational landfor ... more


EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins Extension
NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope's three-and-a-half-year prime mission and the beginning of an extended mi ... more
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TECH SPACE

Lockheed Martin Expands Range Of Cloud Computing Services for UK Government
Lockheed Martin UK has expanded its offering of cloud computing services available to the UK government after recently being selected to provide G-Cloud 2 IT support. This new contract succeed ... more
EXO WORLDS

Rare image of Super-Jupiter sheds light on planet formation
An infrared imaging search with the Subaru telescope has captured a rare image of a "Super-Jupiter" around the massive star Kappa Andromedae (K And). The gas giant has a mass about 13 times that of ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter'
Astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have discovered a "super-Jupiter" around the bright star Kappa Andromedae, which now holds the record for the most massive star kn ... more
DEEP IMPACT

Leonid meteor shower comes around
Fragments shed by a comet are falling to Earth this weekend in the Leonid meteor shower. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

LLNL scientists assist in building detector to search for elusive dark matter material
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers are making key contributions to a physics experiment that will look for one of nature's most elusive particles, "dark matter," using a tank nearly ... more
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TECH SPACE

Bug repellent for supercomputers proves effective
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have used the Stack Trace Analysis Tool (STAT), a highly scalable, lightweight tool to debug a program running more than one million MPI pro ... more
TECH SPACE

Keeneland Project Deploys New GPU Supercomputing System for the National Science Foundation
Georgia Tech, along with partner research organizations on the Keeneland Project, including the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the National Institute for Computational Sciences and Oak Ridge Nat ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Traps Galactic Fireflies
Luminous galaxies glow like fireflies on a dark night in this image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The upper central galaxy in this image is a gigantic elliptical galaxy designated ... more
EXO LIFE

SETI Institute Major Donation From Qualcomm Chief Scientist Franklin Antonio
SETI Institute has received a donation of $3.5 million from Franklin Antonio, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Qualcomm. The money will be used to more than double the sensitivity of the Alle ... more
TIME AND SPACE

Black Holes and How to Use Them
A "black hole" is defined as a region of space where gravity is so great that it prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficient ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Dwarf planet Makemake lacks atmosphere

Keck Observations Bring Weather Of Uranus Into Sharp Focus

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TIME AND SPACE
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TIME AND SPACE
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DEEP IMPACT

Rare meteorites created in violent celestial collision
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TECH SPACE

Titan is also a green powerhouse
Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan the world's most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy-efficient. Titan came in at number three on the Green500 list. Organized ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Instrument Will Observe Spiral Galaxy Near Big Dipper's Handle
Astrophysicist Timothy Cook loves to build things, particularly small scientific satellites and instruments, putting them on a sounding rocket and then shooting them into space. "How can one not fin ... more
EXO WORLDS

A Reborn Planetary Nebula
These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, (a.k.a. A30), show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. The inset image on the right is a close-u ... more
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BOSS Quasars Unveil a New Era in the Expansion History of the Universe

EXO WORLDS

Lowell astronomer, collaborators point the way for exoplanet search

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The curious shape of a supernova remnant in a star-forming cloud

IRON AND ICE

DARPA's Advanced Space Surveillance Telescope Could Be Looking Up From Down Under

TIME AND SPACE

Combined Power Of Space Telescopes Finds Candidate For Most Distant Object Yet

TECH SPACE

Raytheon submits Space Fence proposal to the USAF

DEEP IMPACT

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Saturday, November 17, 2012

TECH SPACE

Lockheed Martin Submits Space Fence Radar Proposal to USAF to Detect and Track Orbital Objects

ECLIPSES

Proba-2 soaks up three solar eclipses

EXO WORLDS

Lonely planet: Orphan world spotted in deep space

US to station powerful radar, space telescope in Australia

Sky-gazers in awe of total eclipse

Lost in Space: Rogue Planet Spotted?

Astronomers Measure The Universe's Deceleration Before Dark Energy Took Over

Boss Quasars Unveil A New Era In The Expansion History Of The Universe

Lowell Astronomer, Collaborators Point The Way For Exoplanet Search

The 11-Year Solar Cycle Continues During Prolonged Sunspot Minima

High-Frequency Flux Transfer Events Detected Near Mercury

China's Chang'e-3 to land on moon next year

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New habitable zone super-Earth found in exosolar system

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Hubble Spots a Colorful Lenticular Galaxy

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New Australian telescope set to find 700,000 galaxies

Cosmic sprinklers explained in active planetary nebula

Atmospheric CO2 risks increasing space junk: study

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