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Proba-2 Tracks Sun Surging Into SpaceParis, France (ESA) Jul 01, 2010 Proba-2 is a small but innovative member of ESA's spacecraft fleet, crammed with experimental technologies. In its first eight months of life it has already returned more than 90 000 images of the Sun. Less than a cubic metre in volume, Proba-2 carries a new generation of miniaturised science instruments, focused on the Sun and space weather, as well as 17 state-of-the-art technology payloads. Launched on 2 November 2009, Proba-2 began routine operations in February. A workshop at ESA's ESTE ... read more |
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Tokyo (AFP) June 24, 2010Japan's space agency said it had found a trace of gas Thursday in a capsule thought to contain asteroid dust that was brought back to Earth after a multi-billion-kilometre (mile) space journey. Researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Sagamihara Campus in Kanagawa began opening the Hayabusa capsule, a process expected to take about a week, JAXA said. Using an optical micro ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jun 25, 2010Using two of the world's largest telescopes, an international team of astronomers have found evidence of a collision between galaxies driving intense activity in a highly luminous quasar. The scientists, led by Montserrat Villar Martin of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia-CSIC in Spain, used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on La Palma in the ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 25, 2010CSIRO astronomer George Hobbs and colleagues in the UK, Germany and Canada report that they have taken a big step towards solving a 30-year-old puzzle: why the "cosmic clocks" called pulsars aren't perfect. "We now have a more fundamental understanding of how pulsars work," Dr Hobbs said. "We've shown that many pulsar characteristics are linked, because they have one underlying cause ... more |
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Plentiful And Potential PlanetsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 24, 2010 Two planet-hunting telescopes - CoRoT and Kepler - are keeping astronomers hard at work cataloging far-distant planets that orbit other stars in our galaxy. CoRoT recently reported the discovery of six gas giant planets similar to Jupiter. Kepler, meanwhile, is not confirming the discovery of any planets, but has announced hundreds of planet candidates after only 43 days of scanning the stars. b>COROT Catches a Unicorn br> /b> The CoRoT space telescope has made seven new discoveries during its o ... read more |
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