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January 28, 2013

Commercial Asteroid Hunters Announce Plans For New Robotic Exploration Fleet
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2013
A NewSpace start up Deep Space Industries claims it will send a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft out into the solar system to hunt for resources to accelerate space development to benefit Earth. These "FireFly" spacecraft utilize low-cost CubeSat components and get discounted delivery to space by ride-sharing on the launch of larger communications satellites. "This is the first commercial campaign to explore the small asteroids that pass by Earth," said Deep Space Chairman Rick Tumlinson ( ... read more

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Red Explosions - Secret Life of Binary Stars Revealed A University of Alberta professor has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that results in an explosion so powerful it ranks close to supernovae in luminosity. Ast ... more		Sun-Gazing Sorce Satellite, Designed To Last 5 Years, Turns 10 When a Sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging. A decade later, the four instruments o ... more		More than one brain behind E=mc2 Two American physicists outline the role played by Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl in establishing the proportionality between the energy (E) of a quantity of matter with its mass (m) in a ca ... more
				Wood on the seafloor - an oasis for deep-sea life Trees do not grow in the deep sea, nevertheless sunken pieces of wood can develop into oases for deep-sea life - at least temporarily until the wood is fully degraded. A team of Max Planck researche ... more		NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Euclid will launch in 2020 an ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Baffling pulsar leaves astronomers in the dark New observations of a highly variable pulsar using ESA's XMM-Newton are perplexing astronomers. Monitoring this pulsar simultaneously in X-rays and radio waves, astronomers have revealed that this s ... more		The 3D fireworks of a star In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now a team of Spanish and Estonian astronomers has reconstructed the journey of the ... more		US missile defense still plagued by technical doubts Northrop Grumman, US Navy Complete Triton Unmanned Aircraft's First Flight Lockheed Martin Completes Milestone for Training Element of United States Ballistic Missile Defense System General Dynamics to Deliver U.S. Army's Newest Tactical Ground Station Intelligence System Lockheed Martin Conducts First EMD Flight Test of New GMLRS Warhead Defense Acquisition Board approves Standard Missile-6 full-rate production DARPA Seeks Technology to Radically Improve Dismounted Squad Situational Awareness, Communication Effectiveness		Betelgeuse braces for a collision Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in this new image from ESA's Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields could collide wit ... more
				Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers Pulsars - tiny spinning stars, heavier than the sun and smaller than a city - have puzzled scientists since they were discovered in 1967. Now, new observations by an international team, includ ... more		Astronomer Creates Computer Models That Help Explain How Galaxies Formed And Evolved When most people think of astronomers, they envision scientists who spend time peering at stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops. Rutgers astronomer Rachel Somerville depends on ... more

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Shedding Light on the Power of M 82's Superwinds An international team of astronomers, led by Dr. Kazuya Matsubayshi (Kyoto University), has discovered that outflows of gas from starburst galaxy M 82 (see Note 1 for a reference figure) collide wit ... more		A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slow ... more		Volcanoes Cause Climate Gas Concentrations to Vary Allosaurus fed more like a falcon than a crocodile Study reveals how fishing gear can cause slow death of whales Research offers promising new approach to treatment of lung cancer A Local Footprint's Global Footprint A Roadmap for the Future of Astrobiology Small but speedy: Short plants live in the evolutionary fast lane		Solar eruption heading toward Earth A coronal mass ejection from the sun is headed toward the Earth after erupting Wednesday morning and should arrive here in one to three days, NASA reported. ... more
				Synchrotron infrared unveils a mysterious microbial community In the fall of 2010, Hoi-Ying Holman of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was approached by an international team researching a mysterious microbia ... more		Computer breakthrough: Code of life becomes databank Scientists in Britain on Wednesday announced a breakthrough in the quest to turn DNA into a revolutionary form of data storage. ... more

The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch

New Horizons Gets a New Year's Workout

Halfway Between Uranus and Neptune, New Horizons Cruises On

Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator

Wood on the seafloor - an oasis for deep-sea life

Synchrotron infrared unveils a mysterious microbial community

New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System

Glitch has space telescope shut down

Earth-size planets common in galaxy

NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year

Opportunity Investigating Light-toned Veins in Rock Outcrop

Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake

	Cheating to Create the Perfect Simulation The planet Earth will die - if not before, then when the Sun collapses. This is going to happen in approximately seven billion years. In the universe however the death of suns and planets is an ever ... more		New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System University of Leicester planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras - similar to Earth's Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar system. Auroras occur on several pl ... more		Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator This week, fizzy ocean water and the alkaline fluid that bubbles up from deep ocean vents are coursing through a structure at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. that is reminiscent ... more		Why NASA Scientists Observe the Sun in Different Wavelengths Taking a photo of the sun with a standard camera will provide a familiar image: a yellowish, featureless disk, perhaps colored a bit more red when near the horizon since the light must travel throug ... more

Solar Industry Capital Spending Hits Seven-Year Low in 2013

Innovation could bring flexible solar cells, transistors, displays

More emphasis needed on recycling and reuse of Li-ion batteries

Israel eyes Syrian missile threat to gas fields

Sempra U.S. Gas and Power, Consolidated Edison Development announce solar partnership

Areva, world's 2nd uranium company heavily present in Niger

Magnetic fingerprints of superfluid helium-3

'Background' light of universe measured		A Microquasar Makes a Giant Manatee Nebula		US company aims to 'harvest' asteroids		Gamma-ray burst blasted Earth in 8th century: study		Penn Physicists Help Show Math Behind Growth of 'Coffee Rings'
Glitch has space telescope shut down		Black holes growing faster than expected		Kim Dotcom apologises for Mega bugs		NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated		Titan Gets a Dune "Makeover"

Comet of the Century?

Light From The Darkness

New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

Herschel intercepts asteroid Apophis

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Dynamic, dark energy in an accelerating universe

Jupiter Dances with the Moon on January 21st

Russian scientists get first ice samples from Antarctic Lake Vostok

Laser sends Mona Lisa into space

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Hubble Views a Dwarf Galaxy

NASA's SDO Has Plenty of Content for Ultra HD TVs

Neon lights up exploding stars

Nearby dwarf galaxy and possible protogalaxy discovered

Notre Dame astronomers find massive supply of gas around modern galaxies

Life possible on extrasolar moons

A Jumble of Exotic Stars

Cloudy Mystery Bursts From Milkyway Center

Do Pockmarks on the Moon Hold the Key to Our Origins

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