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The Dance of the PlanetsSydney, Australia (SPX) May 02, 2011 What's in the night sky this week? Glad you asked! There's plenty but first, armed with your binoculars, find a nice dark place away from the glare of the street lights. Pick a comfy spot and wait about 5-10 minutes to allow your eyes to adapt to the darkness. See that band of stars stretching across the sky from one side to the other? That's the Milky Way, full of more stars than you can count. Search along the Milky Way with your binoculars and watch for 'fuzzy' patches. Stop and have a look, yo ... read more |
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 Measuring the distant universe in 3-D The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars - supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light years away - has been constructed by sc ... more | .. |
  Astronomers unveil portrait of 'super-exotic super-Earth' An international team of astronomers have revealed details of a "super-exotic" exoplanet that would make the planet Pandora in the movie Avatar pale in comparison. The planet, named 55 Cancri ... more | .. |
  Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working. And with each passing day they are beaming back a ... more | .. |
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  Asteroids collide at 11,000 miles per hour Scientists have captured and studied the collision of two asteroids for only the second time in the history of astronomy. In the May 20 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters (currently online ... more | .. |
 NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed ... more | .. |
  First Contact: Investigating Astrobiology The origins of my new book - "First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth" - lie more in journalism than in science. As a relatively recent convert to space and science ... more | .. |
 Voyager - The Love Story One day, years from now--or maybe billions of years, no one knows--aliens might be surprised to run across an old spaceship from Earth. Improbably far from home, the ancient probe is space cold, its ... more |
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
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 Andromeda's coat of many colours ESA's fleet of space telescopes has captured the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, in different wavelengths. Most of these wavelengths are invisible to the eye and each shows a different a ... more | .. |
  NNSA Announces New Space Debris Modeling All this week, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is highlighting its advanced supercomputing capabilities with a week of features demonstrating the science and technology work done ... more | .. |
  'Spinstars' - First Polluters of the Universe From the analysis of the chemical composition of some of the oldest stars in our Galaxy, an international team of astronomers led by Cristina Chiappini from the Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik Pot ... more | .. |
  Profiling Polar Craters with the Mercury Laser Altimeter MESSENGER's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) uses a laser to measure the distance from the spacecraft to Mercury's surface. The instrument sends a laser pulse to Mercury and measures the time it takes ... more |
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 NIST nanomagnets offer food for thought about computer memories Magnetics researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) colored lots of eggs recently. Bunnies and children might find the eggs a bit small-in fact, too small to see witho ... more | .. |
  Boulder, Huntsville are "Final Two" in National Solar Observatory Competition The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA Inc.) has elected to pursue advanced negotiations with the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Alabama in Huntsville ... more | .. |
 Meteors from Halley's Comet Looking for an adventure? Get up in the wee hours of the morning May 6th and head out into the country, far from the city lights. You won't be alone. The birds will be up and singing about the comin ... more | .. |
 Five Things About NASA's Voyager Mission Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the longest continuously-operating spacecraft in deep space. The Voyagers were built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ... more |
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A weakening forest buffer challenges EU climate goals
DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
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 US budget cuts mean no more ET monitoring A monitoring system for potential extraterrestrial communication has been shelved due to budget cuts, one of its partners said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Researchers working to advance predictability research initiatives Faculty from the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology are leading the school's predictability research initiatives with multiple projects that could one day lead to more accurate forecasts o ... more | .. |
  Rice-born detector finds heaviest antimatter Physicists at Rice University and their collaborators have detected the antimatter partner of the helium nucleus, antihelium-4. This newly observed particle is the heaviest antimatter particle ever ... more | .. |
 Searching for dark matter and antimatter The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) will be located outside the International Space Station (ISS) and will use its various detectors to seek cosmic radiation in space. On 29 April 2011, at 21:47 C ... more |
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 NASA's Chandra Finds New Evidence on Origin of Supernovas Astronomers may now know the cause of an historic supernova explosion that is an important type of object for investigating dark energy in the universe. The discovery, made using NASA's Chandra X-ra ... more | .. |
 Citizen Scientists Making Incredible Discoveries "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known," wrote Carl Sagan. And now you can be the one to find it, thanks to Zooniverse, a unique citizen science website. Zooniverse volunteers, who ... more | .. |
  Electron Beams Link Saturn with Its Moon Enceladus Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed that Enceladus, one of Saturn's diminutive moons, is linked to Saturn by powerful electrical currents - beams of electrons that flow back and forth ... more | .. |
 Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny Galaxies Astronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies. "It's like finding a ... more |
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
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 STEREO Turns Its Steady Gaze On Variable Stars Researchers have discovered 122 new eclipsing binary stars and observed hundreds more variable stars in an innovative survey using NASA's two STEREO solar satellites. The survey has been carried out ... more | .. |
Bacteria seen surviving 'hypergravity' Several species of bacteria can survive in "hypergravity" environments more than 400,000 times Earth's gravity, Japanese researchers say. ... more | .. |
Telescopes looking for alien life shut off A telescope array in California built to listen for signals from distant alien civilizations has been shut down for lack of money, its operators say. ... more | .. |
 Cascading Material Pours onto a Young Star Astronomer Joel Green of The University of Texas at Austin has been following a rare massive flare from a nascent star similar to the early Sun using the European Space Agency's infrared Herschel Sp ... more |
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 Antarctic lake hides bizarre ecosystem In the eerie bluish-purple depths of an Antarctic lake, scientists have discovered otherworldly mounds that tell tales of the planet's early days. Bacteria slowly built the mounds, known as stromato ... more | .. |
 Black Trees Under Two Suns A sky with two suns is a favorite image for science fiction films, but how would a binary star system affect life evolving on an orbiting planet? Jack O'Malley-James of the University of St. A ... more | .. |
 Did the Early Universe Have One Dimension Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010 ... more | .. |
 A Disturbed Galactic Duo The galaxies in this cosmic pairing, captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, display some curious features, demonstrating that each ... more |
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