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Cool Star Is A Gem Of A FindWashington DC (SPX) Nov 10, 2010 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has eyed its first cool brown dwarf: a tiny, ultra-cold star floating all alone in space. WISE is scanning the whole sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of not just brown dwarfs but also asteroids, stars and galaxies. It has sent millions of images down to Earth, in which infrared light of different wavelengths is color-coded in the images. "The brown dwarfs jump out at you like big, fat, green emeralds," said Amy Mainzer, the deput ... read more |
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  U.K. astronomers see 'snooker' star system U.K. astronomers say a recently discovered star system looks like, and may have once behaved like, a game of snooker or billiards. ... more | .. |
  The International Space Weather Initiative Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, more than a hundred researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance: storms from the s ... more | .. |
  Simulating Black Hole Radiation With Lasers A team of Italian scientists has fired a laser beam into a hunk of glass to create what they believe is an optical analogue of the Hawking radiation that many physicists expect is emitted by black h ... more | .. |
  EPOXI Reveals Comet Hartley 2 NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft successfully flew past comet Hartley 2 at 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) Thursday, Nov. 4. Scientists say initial images from the flyby provide new information about the co ... more |
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 UK Scientists Celebrate Mini Big Bangs As Lead Ion Collides UK scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) ALICE experiment at CERN are today celebrating the LHC's latest achievement which opens up an entirely new avenue of exploration. T ... more | .. |
 Watching Electrons Get All Confused About Who They Are Scientists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) observed exotic behaviour from beryllium oxide (BeO) when they bombarded it with high-speed heavy ions: After being shot in this way, the electrons in ... more | .. |
 Flight Of The Comet This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. During the encounter, the spacecraft and comet whisked past eac ... more | .. |
 Cosmic Curiosity Reveals Ghostly Glow Of Dead Quasar While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange- ... more |
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  Did Earth Encounter Pieces Of An Alien Visitor Last Night Did Earth encounter pieces of an alien visitor last night? Apparently so! It appears tiny pieces of Comet Hartley 2 may have presented a spectacular and startling sky show across the country yesterd ... more | .. |
 Neutron Stars May Be Too Weak To Power Some Gamma-Ray Bursts A gamma-ray burst is an immensely powerful blast of high-energy light thought to be generated by a collapsing star in a distant galaxy, but what this collapse leaves behind has been a matter of deba ... more | .. |
  NASA working to re-set Cassini spacecraft Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are working to understand what caused NASA's Cassini spacecraft to put itself into "safe mode," ... more | .. |
 Ball Aerospace Built EPOXI Spacecraft Images Comet Hartley 2 The Ball Aerospace-built Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft successfully completed another "first" for NASA on November 4 when its onboard cameras captured spectacular images of comet Hartley 2 as part of ... more |
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 Astronomers Find Evidence Of Cosmic Climate Change A team of astronomers has found evidence that the universe may have gone through a warming trend early in its history. They measured the temperature of the gas that lies in between galaxies, and fou ... more | .. |
 Odin Satellite Observes Water In Comet 103P Hartley 2 The Odin satellite observed Comet Hartley 2 almost continuously from 29 October to 1 November. The water signature (line) was easily detected. Its extension and space distribution is shown on a map ... more | .. |
 Flyby Observations To Offer Insight On Comet Nucleus Recent ground-based telescope observations by Planetary Science Institute researchers have offered new insights into the nucleus of a comet that will be the target of a NASA spacecraft flyby this we ... more | .. |
 Herschel's Hidden Talent: Digging Up Magnified Galaxies It turns out the Herschel Space Observatory has a trick up its sleeve. The telescope, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions, has proven to be excellent at finding magnifi ... more |
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 The Man Behind Comet Hartley 2 Over the last 40 years, Malcolm Hartley has done just about every possible job for Siding Spring Observatory's UK Schmidt telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The British-born, Scottish-educated ... more | .. |
 New Method Reveals Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies Astronomers using early data from one of the largest projects to be undertaken with the ESA Herschel Space Observatory have demonstrated that virtually all bright sub-millimetre galaxies in the dist ... more | .. |
  NIST Backs Proposal For A Revamped System Of Measurement Units Taking the first steps of what would be a major historical advance in the science of measurement, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is participating in a worldwide effort to ... more | .. |
  50th Anniversary Of SETI Commemorated With New Observing Project This week astronomers from twelve countries on six continents will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by beginning a coordinated series of observati ... more |
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 Cometary Poison Gas Geyser Heralds Surprises As NASA's Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe approaches Comet Hartley 2 for a close encounter on Nov. 4th, mission scientists are certain of only one thing: "We're about to be surprised," says principal inve ... more | .. |
 Space Fence Program Completes Critical Milestone Raytheon Company has completed a successful system design review (SDR) for the Space Fence program. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to track and de ... more | .. |
 Using Planet Colors To Search For Alien Earths Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil ... more | .. |
 Big Bang to be recreated in miniature Scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider say they are planning to recreate the big bang, which many scientists say began the universe, on a miniature scale. ... more |
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