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Space Telescopes Reveal Previously Unknown X-Ray NovaRohnert Park CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2010 Astronomers in Japan, using an X-ray detector on the International Space Station, and at Penn State University, using NASA's Swift space observatory, are announcing the discovery of an object newly emitting X-rays, which previously had been hidden inside our Milky Way galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. The binary system was revealed recently when an instrument on the International Space Station named MAXI (Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image) on the Exposed Facility of the Japanese Experiment Modul ... read more |
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  LRO Detects Surprising Gases In LCROSS Lunar Impact Plume NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on t ... more | .. |
  Picometre Precision Demonstrated By LISA Pathfinder Tests A European team working on the LISA Pathfinder mission has completed an extensive series of ground tests on the spacecraft's optical payload. The tests successfully achieved - for the first time on ... more | .. |
  New Research Settles Years Debate Over Diffuse Aurora New space research published this week (Thursday 21 October) in the journal Nature, has settled decades of scientific debate. Researchers from the University of California (UCLA) and British Antarct ... more | .. |
  NASA Open Government Summit Emphasized Data Exchange NASA is working to publish more of its data sets online and create more opportunities to engage with the public using digital tools. This was a major part of the discussion during the monthly Open G ... more | .. |
  Spring Has Sprung ... On Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around the moon's midsection. These bright clouds likely appeared because th ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2010Lunar soil is richer than previously thought, with traces of silver among the complex mix of elements and compounds found within one of the moon's craters, according to a study published Thursday. Researchers at Brown University who analyzed particles of lunar dust kicked up by a NASA-engineered collision last year found a surprisingly rich mixture that, in addition to the silver, included w ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 21, 2010Astronomers using XMM-Newton and other world-class X-ray telescopes have probed a curious source, which emits flares and bursts just like a magnetar but lacks the extremely high external magnetic field typical of these objects. The detection of this source, which could be powered by a strong, internal magnetic field hidden to observations, may mean that many 'ordinary' pulsars are dormant ... more 
Paris, France (ESO) Oct 21, 2010A European team of astronomers led by Paris Observatory CNRS Director of Research Matthew Lehnert using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analyzing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have found that they are seeing it when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6), or 4.4% of its present age o ... more |
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India to build neutrino observatoryNew Delhi (UPI) Oct 20, 2010 India says it will build a more than quarter-billion-dollar underground facility to join the worldwide search for elusive neutrino particles. The country's Environment and Forests Ministry has given the Atomic Energy Department the go-ahead for the neutrino observatory to be built in the Bodi West hills on the coast of Tamil Nadu state, the BBC reported Wednesday. The $270 million facility will be only the fifth observatory in the world dedicated to detecting the almost mass-less element ... read more |
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