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February 24, 2011
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Quasar's Belch Solves Longstanding Mystery
Hilo HI (SPX) Feb 24, 2011
When two galaxies merge to form a giant, the central supermassive black hole in the new galaxy develops an insatiable appetite. However, this ferocious appetite is unsustainable. For the first time, observations with the Gemini Observatory clearly reveal an extreme, large-scale galactic outflow that brings the cosmic dinner to a halt. The outflow is effectively blowing the galaxy apart in a negative feedback loop, depriving the galaxy's monstrous black hole of the gas and dust it needs to sustain ... read more

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Findings Raise New Questions About Dark Matter
Recent data for gas rich galaxies precisely match predictions of a modified theory of gravity know as MOND according to a new analysis by University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Stacy McGaugh. Th ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Chandra Finds Superfluid In Neutron Star Core
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the core of a neutron star. Superfluids created in laboratori ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Kepler Triples ExoPlanet Count As Search For Biosphere 2 Intensifies
The rush of data released earlier this month from the Kepler science team is intriguing for what it saw and didn't see in its first 4 months of observations. The relatively small Kepler space telesc ... more
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MOON DAILY

Venus And Crescent Moon Pair Up At Dawn
The brightest planet and the eerie waning crescent Moon will create an arresting sky scene low in the southeast in the early dawn of Monday, February 28th, and Tuesday, March 1st, 2011. "These ... more
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EXO LIFE

Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First Protocells
A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Physicists Build Bigger Bottles Of Antimatter To Unlock Nature's Secrets
Once regarded as the stuff of science fiction, antimatter-the mirror image of the ordinary matter in our observable universe-is now the focus of laboratory studies around the world. While phys ... more
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EXO LIFE

The Patterns Of Life Are Universal
When people on airplanes ask Alan Newell what he works on, he tells them "flower arrangements." He could also say "fingerprints" or "sand ripples" or "how plants grow." "Most patterns yo ... more
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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Russia hints at deploying mid-range missiles after ending INF moratorium
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TIME AND SPACE

Hunt for the 'God Particle' to continue
Europe's Large Hadron Collider will either prove the existence of the so-called "God Particle" within two years or it probably doesn't exist, scientists say. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

'Wandering' planets may have water, life
Liquid water may be found on planets that have gone adrift from their stars and may have acted as stepping stones to spread cosmic life, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Catching Space Weather In The Act
Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As y ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Herschel Finds Less Dark Matter But More Stars
ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered a population of dust-enshrouded galaxies that do not need as much dark matter as previously thought to collect gas and burst into star formation ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Super-Sharp Radio Eye Remeasuring the Universe
Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an achievem ... more
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MOON DAILY

84 Student Teams Set to Roll At 18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more
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MOON DAILY

Google Lunar X Prize Roster Reaches 29 Teams
Today, the X PRIZE Foundation announced the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that t ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Back To The Roots Of The Solar System
Planets form in disks of dust and gas that surround young stars. A look at the birth places means a journey into the past of the earth and its siblings. Now, astronomers have been able to obtain det ... more
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
Great Barrier Reef suffers most widespread bleaching on record
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini To Sample Magnetic Environment Around Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to skim close to Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Feb. 18, to learn about the interaction between Titan and Saturn's magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the plan ... more
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MERCURY RISING

One Month Until Mercury Orbit Insertion
After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft - carrying seven science instru ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Space weather could wreak havoc in gadget-driven world
A geomagnetic space storm sparked by a solar eruption like the one that flared toward Earth Tuesday is bound to strike again and could wreak havoc across the gadget-happy modern world, experts say. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

High NOON For Microwave Photons
An important milestone toward the realization of a large-scale quantum computer, and further demonstration of a new level of the quantum control of light, were accomplished by a team of scientists a ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Direct Images Of Disks Unravel Mystery Of Planet Formation
The fruits of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) project, led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), continue with another remar ... more
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MOON DAILY

Waiter, There's Metal In My Moon Water
Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercur ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841
The galaxy NGC 2841 - shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the space observatory's newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 - currently has a relatively low star fo ... more
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MOON DAILY

Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space
Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday. ... more
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Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge
Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions
Sticky business: India's purchases of Russian oil
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Reflected Glory
The nebula Messier 78 takes centre stage in this image taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, while the stars powering the bright d ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Spectacular Flyby Of Comet Tempel 1 Tests Lockheed Built Spacecraft
NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a Valentine's Day deep-space rendezvous with an object it had been seeking for the past four-and-a-half years. The Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft flawlessly ex ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Herschel Quantifies The Dark Matter Threshold For Starburst Galaxies
Modern astronomers have established that there is much more to galaxies than meets the eye, as the stars, gas and dust - perceivable by telescopes across the entire electromagnetic spectrum - make u ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Releases Images Of Man-Made Crater On Comet
NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has a fragile and weak nucleus. The space ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Earth dodges geomagnetic storm: scientist
A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Isolating The Stellar Discs Of Andromeda
A team of astronomers from the UK, the US and Europe have identified a thick stellar disc in the nearby Andromeda galaxy for the first time. The discovery and properties of the thick disc will const ... more
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EXO WORLDS

New Instrument Will Help Confirm Kepler Planet Finds
The search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge. In some ... more
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