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Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space As Solar Wind Slows To ZeroPasadena CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2010 The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 17.4 billion kilometers (10.8 billion miles) from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the velocity of the hot ionized gas, or plasma, emanating directly outward from the sun has slowed to zero. Scientists suspect the solar wind has been turned sideways by the pressure from the interst ... read more |
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  New Pictures Show Fourth Planet In Giant Version Of Our Solar System Astronomers have discovered a fourth giant planet, joining three others that, in 2008, were the subject of the first-ever pictures of a planetary system orbiting another star other than our sun. ... more | .. |
 Carbon-Rich Planet: A Girl's Best Friend A peculiar gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1200 light-years away is the first carbon-rich world ever observed. The implications are big for planetary chemistry, because without much oxygen ... more | .. |
  Research Points To Better Understanding Of Carbon In Comets Using a comet as a far-flung laboratory, a Planetary Science Institute researcher has shown that the ionization lifetime of carbon is much shorter than what is currently used in calculations by come ... more | .. |
  WISE Sees An Explosion Of Infrared Light This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Also known as the Jellyfish nebula, IC 443 is particularly interesting beca ... more |
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  Huge Collision May Have Formed Saturn's Rings And Inner Moons Simulations performed at Southwest Research Institute may explain how Saturn's majestic rings and icy inner moons formed following the collision of a Titan-sized satellite with the planet, according ... more | .. |
 NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt For Planets A team of NASA-funded researchers has unveiled a new theory that contends planets gained the final portions of their mass from a limited number of large comet or asteroid impacts more than 4.5 billi ... more | .. |
  ThumbDrive inventor out to prove he is no one-hit wonder Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the dustbin of technological history. ... more | .. |
ThumbDrive inventor out to prove he is no one-hit wonder Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the dustbin of technological history. ... more |
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  Rice Researchers Take Temperature Of Molecule You can touch a functioning light bulb and know right away that it's hot. Ouch! But you can't touch a single molecule and get the same feedback. Rice University researchers say they have the n ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Detect First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet A team led by a former postdoctoral researcher in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, recently measured the first-ever planeta ... more | .. |
 Fahrenheit -459: Neutron Stars And String Theory In A Lab Using lasers to contain some ultra-chilled atoms, a team of scientists has measured the viscosity or stickiness of a gas often considered to be the sixth state of matter. The measurements veri ... more | .. |
  Life Thrives In Porous Rock Deep Beneath The Seafloor Researchers have found compelling evidence for an extensive biological community living in porous rock deep beneath the seafloor. The microbes in this hidden world appear to be an important source o ... more |
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 Changes In Solar Activity Affect Local Climate Raimund Muscheler is a researcher at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University in Sweden. In the latest issue of the journal Science, he and his colleagues have described how ... more | .. |
 Scientists Forecast New Atom Smashers To Keep Europe Leading In Nuclear Physics Europe needs new particle accelerators and major upgrades to existing facilities over the next ten years to stay at the forefront of nuclear physics, according to the European Science Foundation (ES ... more | .. |
  Intergalactic Weather Map This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from Earth. ... more | .. |
 MegaPhase RF Cables Enable Conclusion Of Seven-Year Deep Space Program MegaPhase cables have contributed to the first and only asteroid dust capture from space. The Hayabusa space probe was equipped with MegaPhase's GrooveTube RF cable assemblies. The seven year missio ... more |
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 A Swarm Of Ancient Stars We know of about 150 of the rich collections of old stars called globular clusters that orbit our galaxy, the Milky Way. This sharp new image of Messier 107, captured by the Wide Field Imager on the ... more | .. |
  Geminid Meteor Shower Defies Explanation The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks this year on Dec. 13th and 14th, is the most intense meteor shower of the year. It lasts for days, is rich in fireballs, and can be seen from almost any point ... more | .. |
 Sneak Attacks From Sun Our Sun can be a menace when it sends out powerful solar blasts of radiation towards the Earth. Astronomers keenly watch the Sun to learn more about what powers these solar eruptions, in hopes of be ... more | .. |
 ASU Astronomer Opens New Window Into Early Universe Thirteen billion years ago our universe was dark. There were neither stars nor galaxies; there was only hydrogen gas left over after the Big Bang. Eventually that mysterious time came to an end as t ... more |
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 Astronomers Discover New Planet In Planetary System Very Similar To Our Own An international team of astronomers has discovered and imaged a fourth giant planet outside our solar system, a discovery that further strengthens the remarkable resemblances between a distant plan ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. The planet, a gas giant named WASP-12b, is the first carbon-rich world e ... more | .. |
 Study: Earth's precious metals from space Gigantic collisions 4.5 billion years ago injected precious elements such as gold and platinum into on Earth, the moon and Mars, a study suggests. ... more | .. |
 Heat Helped Hasten Beginnings Of Life There has been controversy about whether life originated in a hot or cold environment, and about whether enough time has elapsed for life to have evolved to its present complexity. But new res ... more |
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