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Astronomer discounts chances of alien lifeCambridge, Mass. (UPI) Jan 24, 2011 A leading U.S. astronomer says there is no hope of finding alien life in space because all other planets discovered so far are to hostile for life. Howard Smith, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard University, says he believes humans are alone in the universe, following an analysis of the 500 planets discovered so far that shows they are all hostile to life, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Monday. The extreme conditions found so far on all planets discovered around suns outside the sol ... read more |
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 Meteorites May Answer Life's Chirality Question A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more | .. |
  Swift Survey Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies Seen in X-rays, the entire sky is aglow. Even far away from bright sources, X-rays originating from beyond our galaxy provide a steady glow in every direction. Astronomers have long suspected that t ... more | .. |
  No Direct Link Between Black Holes And Dark Matter Massive black holes have been found at the centers of almost all galaxies, where the largest galaxies - who are also the ones embedded in the largest halos of dark matter - harbor the most massive b ... more | .. |
 U.S. atom smasher to be shut down The planned shutdown the Fermilab Tevatron ends hopes it might win the race to find the most sought-after particle in high-energy physics, U.S. scientists say. ... more |
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 The Orion Nebula: Still Full Of Surprises This ethereal-looking image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This nebula is much more than just a p ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Prepares For Valentine's Day Comet Rendezvous NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 at approximately 8:37 p.m. PST (11:37 p.m. EST), on Feb. 14. The mission will allow scientists for the first time to l ... more | .. |
 More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more | .. |
 Discovery Of A Pulsating Star That Hosts A Giant Planet Recently published in an article of the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, a group of researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona has discovere ... more |
  
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  Inclined Orbits Prevail A research team led by astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has discovered that inclined orbits may be typical rather than rare for exop ... more | .. |
 Wave-Generated 'White Hole' Boosts Hawking Radiation Theory A team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed an experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking. In 19 ... more | .. |
  ESA's Mercury Mapper Feels The Heat Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the ... more | .. |
 The Big Bang The night sky seems to present a view of a calm and unchanging Universe. But, in 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe is, in fact, expanding at enormous speed. He noted that galaxies outs ... more |
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  Voyager spacecraft going strong at age 33 NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, approaching the edge of the solar system, are still operating and sending back data 33 years after their launch, scientists say. ... more | .. |
 The Best Way To Measure Dark Energy Just Got Better Dark energy is a mysterious force that pervades all space, acting as a "push" to accelerate the Universe's expansion. Despite being 70 percent of the Universe, dark energy was only discovered in 199 ... more | .. |
  Improved Measurements Of Sun To Advance Understanding Of Climate Change Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change. In a n ... more | .. |
  Finding High-Energy Surprises In Crab Nebula The combined data from several NASA satellites has astonished astronomers by revealing unexpected changes in X-ray emission from the Crab Nebula, once thought to be the steadiest high-energy source ... more |
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 Planck Team Releases Extensive Compact Source Catalogue The Planck Collaboration presented the first science results to emerge from the mission, covering compact and diffuse foreground emission sources, at a conference held from 10 to 14 January 2011 in ... more | .. |
 Forget Planet X New Technique Could Pinpoint Galaxy X Planet X, an often-sought 10th planet, is so far a no-show, but Sukanya Chakrabarti has high hopes for finding what might be called Galaxy X - a dwarf galaxy that she predicts orbits our Milky Way G ... more | .. |
 Heaviest Known Black Hole In Our Cosmic Neighborhood Astronomers led by Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin have measured the most massive known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood by combining data from a giant telescope in Hawai'i a ... more | .. |
 Chandra Images Torrent Of Star Formation A new Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Messier 82, or M82, shows the result of star formation on overdrive. M82 is located about 12 million light-years from Earth and is the nearest place to us wh ... more |
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 Astronomers Map Dark Matter In Massive Galaxies A team of astronomers led by Dr. David Pooley of Eureka Scientific has made an important determination of the amount of dark matter in massive galaxies using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, provid ... more | .. |
 Inclined Orbits Prevail In Exoplanetary Systems A research team led by astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has discovered that inclined orbits may be typical rather than rare for exop ... more | .. |
 Reverence For The Heavens Our Sun is just one small point of light in the swirl of suns that shape the disc of the Milky Way. The galaxy's hundreds of billions of stars are strewn so widely apart, it would take a spaceship ... more | .. |
 The Two-Faced Whirlpool Galaxy These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. The image at left, taken in visible light ... more |
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 Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Identified Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to ... more | .. |
 Toronto Astronomers Share In Planck's Treasure Trove Of Science University of Toronto astronomers are in Paris as part of an international conference announcing the first scientific results of the Plank space telescope mission. Launched in May, 2009, the t ... more | .. |
Planck's New View Of The Cosmic Theatre The first scientific results from ESA's Planck mission were released at a press briefing in Paris. The findings focus on the coldest objects in the Universe, from within our Galaxy to the distant re ... more | .. |
 SOFIA Opens New Window On Star Formation In Orion A mid-infrared mosaic image from the SOFIA airborne observatory offers new information about processes of star formation in and around the nebula Messier 42, in the constellation Orion. The im ... more |
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 Astronomers Discover Close-Knit Pairs Of Massive Black Holes Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and University of Hawaii (UH) have discovered 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive ... more | .. |
 Taking The Pulse Of A Black Hole System Using two NASA X-ray satellites, astronomers have discovered what drives the "heartbeats" seen in the light from an unusual black hole system. These results give new insight into the ways that black ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Release The Largest Color Image Of The Sky Ever Made The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) is releasing the largest digital color image of the sky ever made, and it's free to all. The image has been put together over the last decade from million ... more | .. |
  Gravity Lensing Brightens Distant Galaxies Astronomers who survey galaxies in the distant universe are getting some unexpected help from gravity, according to a new study. In a presentation at the American Astronomical Society meeting ... more |
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