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![]() Liverpool, UK (SPX) Nov 25, 2010 A PhD student studying at Liverpool John Moores University's (LJMU) Astrophysics Research Institute has opened a new chapter in observations and understanding of the nova class of exploding star. This collaborative research with two San Diego universities has shown that even the brightest stellar explosions are being missed. The work of student Rebekah Hounsell is actually a by-product of a U.S. spacecraft program which observes the Sun and is led from the University of California, San Diego. ... read more |
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![]() Astronomers Find 'Rosetta Stone' For T-Dwarf Stars An international team of astronomers have discovered a unique and exotic star system with a very cool methane-rich (or T-) dwarf star and a 'dying' white dwarf stellar remnant in orbit around each o ... more | .. |
![]() Pulsating Star Mystery Solved Grzegorz Pietrzynski introduces this remarkable result: "By using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, along with other telescopes, we have measure ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Back To Normal, Ready For Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft resumed normal operations, Nov. 24. All science instruments have been turned back on, the spacecraft is properly configured and Cassini is in good health. Mission managers ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Satellite Reaches Orbit, Begins Astrobiology Experiments The Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, nanosatellite managed by NASA's Ames Research Center, successfully launched at 5:25 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, from Alaska Aero ... more |
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![]() Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation Energia announced Tuesday that it will build a special orbital pod designed for sweeping-up the near-Earth space from satellite debris. The system was est ... more | .. |
![]() Neptec Wins Canadian Space Agency Contract To Develop A New Generation Of Lunar Rovers Neptec Design Group has won a contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop the new Lunar Exploration Light Rover (LELR) - an exciting new generation of space exploration technology. ... more | .. |
![]() Cosmic Dust And Gas Shape Galaxy Evolution Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it the universe would be devoid of stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable ingredient for making stars and ... more | .. |
![]() Major Collision In Local Galaxy Cluster Six Billion Years Ago Did a major collision between two massive galaxies occur in the Local Group 6 billion years ago? Numerical simulations made by six researchers from Paris Observatory, CNRS, and NAOC suggest this. Th ... more |
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![]() NASA ready to 'wake up' Cassini probe NASA says it is ready to reactivate the Cassini space probe orbiting Saturn after it switched to a "safe mode" on Nov. 2 and stopped sending science data. ... more | .. |
![]() Mission to far side of moon proposed A U.S. aerospace company says it is proposing a mission to send a crew to a stationary spot in orbit over the far side of the moon. ... more | .. |
![]() Imaging With Neutrons Reveals Magnetic Domains In 3D So far, it has only been possible to image magnetic domains in 2 dimensions. Now, for the first time, Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have managed to create 3-dimensional images of these doma ... more | .. |
![]() Bonn Physicists Create A Super-Photon Physicists from the University of Bonn have developed a completely new source of light, a so-called Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of photons. Until recently, expert had thought this impossible ... more |
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![]() Magnetic Trapping Will Help Unlock The Secrets Of Anti-Matter A clearer understanding of the Universe, its origins and maybe even its destiny is a significant step closer, thanks to new research. As part of a major international experiment called ALPHA, based ... more | .. |
![]() Researchers Uncover Surprise Link Between Weird Quantum Phenomena Researchers have uncovered a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics. Stephanie Wehner of Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies and the National University of S ... more | .. |
![]() Gravity wave project takes important step U.S. scientists say they're one step closer to "hearing" gravity waves, the ripples in space and time predicted by Albert Einstein in the early 20th century. ... more | .. |
![]() Issue Brief Details Space Situational Awareness Sharing Program Sharing information on the location of space objects and debris is a prime example of addressing collective problems in space through cooperative solutions. As Earth orbit grows more congested ... more |
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![]() NASA Spacecraft Burns For Another Comet Flyby Eighty-six days out from its appointment with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet Tempel 1 next Vale ... more | .. |
![]() Getting Bubbles Out Of Fuel Pumps For more than 250 years, researchers have known that under certain conditions vapor bubbles can form in fluids moving swiftly over a surface. These bubbles soon collapse with such great force that t ... more | .. |
![]() HP to focus more on software, new CEO says Hewlett-Packard plans to increase its focus on software, new chief executive Leo Apotheker said Monday, as the US computer giant posted fourth quarter results that topped Wall Street's expectations. ... more | .. |
![]() Profiling The Largest Solar Explosions Solar flares - they're big and they're fast. They can knock out a satellite or create a beautiful aurora. And the jury is still out on what causes these explosions. Flares, and the related cor ... more |
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![]() New Evidence For Supernova-Driven Galactic Fountains In Milky Way Observing the X-ray-bright gas in the halo of the Milky Way, ESA's XMM-Newton has gathered new data which favour a process involving fountains of hot gas in our Galaxy. Such a scenario, with t ... more | .. |
![]() Hayabusa's Harvest The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the tiny particles inside the Hayabusa spacecraft's sample return container are in fact from the asteroid Itokawa. Scientists e ... more | .. |
![]() 500th 'extrasolar' planet discovered Astronomers have discovered the 500th exoplanet outside our solar system, a database maintained by a French astronomer says. ... more | .. |
![]() Spindly new species found in ocean's crushing depths Scientists unveiled on Wednesday a gossamer, ghostly creature discovered in the deepest reaches of the ocean between Indonesia and the Philippines. ... more |
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