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Hunting For Milky Way's Heaviest StarsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 14, 2011 Like looking for Easter eggs in a lawn of long grass, the hunt for the Milky Way's most massive stars takes persistence and sharp eyes. In their stellar search through our Galactic backyard, astronomers have used powerful telescopes sensitive to X-ray and infrared radiation to find evidence for a substantial population of X-ray emitting massive stars. This image shows infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope near the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. Both outlined boxes contain an artificial ... read more |
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  The PI's Perspective: Pinch Me! New Horizons is healthy and on course. In mid-March, our spacecraft passed the orbit of Uranus, more than 19 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. In fact, we're now almost 20 times as far from the ... more | .. |
 Herschel Links Star Formation To Sonic Booms ESA's Herschel space observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Intriguingly, each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that ... more | .. |
  Geomagnetic Storm Subsiding April 12, 2011: A G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress, sparked by a high-speed solar wind stream which is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auror ... more | .. |
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  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 | .. |
 First Galaxies Were Born Much Earlier Than Expected Using the amplifying power of a cosmic gravitational lens, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. This result sheds new light on the ... more | .. |
  Physicists Discover New Way To Visualize Warped Space And Time When black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. This warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists haven't b ... more | .. |
 Dark Skies For Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower In Early May Would you like to see a piece of Halley's comet? Now's your chance! Each spring as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley), the cosmic bits burn up in our atmosphere an ... more |
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 Meteorite Sprinkles On Fresh Baked 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 | .. |
 Galaxies formed sooner after Big Bang than thought Astronomers said on Tuesday they believed the first galaxies formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang, a finding that challenges assumptions of how the Universe grew from infancy into childhood. ... more | .. |
  A New Way To Find Planets 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Space Jets In A Bottle By creating space-like conditions in a slim 4m vessel, Italian researchers have helped confirm the behaviour of astrophysical jets - streams of charged particles shot out by supermassive black holes ... more | .. |
  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 |
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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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  BRP To Contribute To Canadian Moon And Mars Exploration Programs BRP, in cooperation with the Centre de technologies avancees BRP-Universite de Sherbrooke (CTA), will develop the chassis and locomotion systems for a Lunar Exploration Light Rover and a Mars Explor ... more | .. |
 Naveen Jain Co-Founder And Chairman Of Moon Express Naveen Jain shared with colleagues at the annual Explorers Club Awards Dinner in New York that he is Co-Founder and Chairman of Moon Express, Inc., winner of a $10M NASA commercial lunar contract an ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Newly Merged Black Hole Eagerly Shreds Stars 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 ma ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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