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Newly Merged Black Hole Eagerly Shreds StarsCambridge MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2011 A galaxy's core is a busy place, crowded with stars swarming around an enormous black hole. When galaxies collide, it gets even messier as the two black holes spiral toward each other, merging to make an even bigger gravitational monster. Once it is created, the monster goes on a rampage. The merger kicks the black hole into surrounding stars. There it finds a hearty meal, shredding and swallowing stars at a rapid clip. According to new research by Nick Stone and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Cent ... read more |
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  Thermophiles Lurking In Your Basement Ever wondered what exotic life forms may be lurking in the dark, hidden corners of your home? Scientists wonder too. Studies have shown that our modern plumbing systems provide sanctuary to a menage ... more | .. |
  Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond our solar ... more | .. |
  Titan Shaped By Weather Not Ice Volcanoes Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? In a newly published anal ... more | .. |
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  WISE Mission Spots Horseshoe Asteroid An asteroid recently discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) may be a bit of an oddball. Most near-Earth asteroids - NEAs for short - have eccentric, or egg-shaped, orbits th ... more | .. |
  NASA's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Arrives in Florida NASA's Juno spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch this summer. The spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, to the Astrotech payload pr ... more | .. |
  Kepler Helps Astronomers Update Census Of Sun-Like Stars NASA's Kepler Mission has detected changes in brightness in 500 sun-like stars, giving astronomers a much better idea about the nature and evolution of the stars. Prior to Kepler's launch in M ... more | .. |
 Breakthrough Study Confirms Cause Of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts A new supercomputer simulation shows the collision of two neutron stars can naturally produce the magnetic structures thought to power the high-speed particle jets associated with short gamma-ray bu ... more |
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 Dawn Approaches Asteroid Vesta After 3 .5 years of thrusting silently through the void, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on the threshold of a new world. It's deep in the asteroid belt, less than 4 months from giant asteroid Vesta. ... more | .. |
 NASA Telescopes Join Forces To Observe Unprecedented Explosion NASA's Swift satellite, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed. More than a week later, high-energy radiati ... more | .. |
  Bright Fireball Leads To Meteorite Search In Tennessee Did you see a bright flash in the sky over Tullahoma, Tenn., last night? Have we got a scavenger hunt for you... At approximately 08:21:57 p.m. CDT on April 6, 2011, NASA all-sky meteor camera ... more | .. |
  Project Morpheus To Begin Testing At NASA's Johnson Space Center Neighbors of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston may notice some loud noises coming from the 1,600-acre site in the coming weeks. Johnson's Engineering Directorate is ready to begin testing ... more |
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 Possible new elementary particle described U.S. particle physicists say they may have observed a new elementary particle or force of nature but admit it may be merely a statistical aberration. ... more | .. |
 Cosmic burst in distant galaxy puzzles NASA NASA is studying a surprising cosmic burst at the center of distant galaxy that has burned for more than a week, longer than astronomers have ever seen before, the US space agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 The 'Molecular Octopus': A Little Brother Of 'Schroedinger's Cat' The quantum physics of tailor-made organic macro-molecules - For the first time - as presented in Nature Communications - the quantum behaviour of molecules consisting of more than 400 atoms was dem ... more | .. |
 Searching For Alien Life? Try Failed Stars The search for alien life usually focuses on planets around other stars. But a lesser-known possibility is that life has sprung up on planets that somehow were ejected from their original solar syst ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific algae invade Algeria beaches, pushing humans and fish away
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 Spring Is Fireball Season What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming Daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don't forget the meteors. "Spri ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Winners Of 18th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race NASA has announced the winners of the 18th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race - and it's Puerto Rico's year. Teams representing Teodoro Aguilar Mora Vocational High School of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, sna ... more | .. |
 Two Dying Stars Reborn As One White dwarfs are dead stars that pack a Sun's-worth of matter into an Earth-sized ball. Astronomers have just discovered an amazing pair of white dwarfs whirling around each other once every 39 minu ... more | .. |
 Newly Discovered Asteroid Is Earth's Companion Astronomers from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland have found that a recently discovered asteroid has been following the Earth in its motion around the Sun for at least the past 250,000 yea ... more |
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 The Art Of Making Stars It might look like an abstract painting, but this splash of colors is in fact a busy star-forming complex called Rho Ophiuchi. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, captured the picturesque ... more | .. |
 Scientists Find New Type Of Mineral In Historic Meteorite NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in Dec ... more | .. |
 Frozen Comet Had A Watery Past The discovery of minerals requiring liquid water for their formation challenges the paradigm of comets as "dirty snowballs" frozen in time. For the first time, scientists have found convincing evide ... more | .. |
 Sugar-Grain Sized Meteorites Rocked The Climates Of Early Earth And Mars Bombardments of 'micro-meteorites' on Earth and Mars four billion years ago may have caused the planets' climates to cool dramatically, hampering their ability to support life, according to research ... more |
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Study: Most US homes can save money and affordably weather blackouts with solar plus storage
Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation
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 Dawn Keeps Rolling Along Three and a half years after launch, Dawn continues its travels around the sun, maneuvering to take the same orbital path as Vesta. Following its usual pattern, the spacecraft has spent most of the ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Kicks Off Yearlong Campaign Of Mercury Science This afternoon, MESSENGER began its yearlong science campaign to understand the innermost planet. The spacecraft will fly around Mercury 700 times over the next 12 months, and its instruments will p ... more | .. |
 Vesta: Asteroid or planet? As a U.S. spacecraft nears a rendezvous with the asteroid Vesta, a centuries old debate has reignited - is it an asteroid or should it be considered a planet? ... more | .. |
 Revealing The Inner Secrets Of Giant Stars University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of the senior citizens of our galaxy: stars known as Red Giants. Using high precision brightness measurements taken ... more |
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 Forensic Sleuthing Ties Ring Ripples To Impacts Like forensic scientists examining fingerprints at a cosmic crime scene, scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced telltale ripples in the rings ... more | .. |
 Poison Could Have Set Stage For Life Formaldehyde, a poison and a common molecule throughout the universe, is likely the source of the solar system's organic carbon solids - abundant in both comets and asteroids. Scientists have long s ... more | .. |
 Getting To Know One Of The Four Fundamental Forces Of The Universe In new work, high-energy physicists have observed two long-sought quantum states in the bottomonium family of sub-atomic particles. The result will help researchers better understand one of the four ... more | .. |
  Aerojet Propulsion Assists Voyager 1 Precision Maneuver At The Edge Of The Solar System Aerojet says its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 10 billion miles away from the sun, at the edge of the solar system. O ... more |
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