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May 06, 2011
SKY NIGHTLY
First IAC in Africa: Global space actors to meet in Cape Town
Paris, France (SPX) May 06, 2011
The 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2011) will be organised in Cape Town, South Africa between Monday 3 October and Friday 7 October 2011. Media representatives are invited to attend this important Congress. The Congress is the world's premier international space gathering, attracting every year heads of space agencies, industry executives and experts to discuss the latest advancements in space technology and exploration, as well as the newest political and economical developments i ... read more

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JOVIAN DREAMS

NASA Administrator Visits Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. The solar-powered Juno space ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

Four Planets Huddle Up Before Dawn Next Week
Four of the five planets visible to the unaided eye huddle quite close together in the pre-dawn sky next week, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. On the morning of May 10, Venus an ... more
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SATURN DAILY

A Water Ocean on Titan
Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. Titan, which is larger than Mercury, is the only worl ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Large asteroid to pass close by Earth
Astronomers say they're readying their instruments to observe an aircraft carrier-sized asteroid that will come closer to Earth than our own moon does. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager's 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, it ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

NASA Unveils Website with Spectacular Solar System Images
NASA has made available for the public a new online collection of images of our solar system and locations on Earth where astrobiology researchers travel to conduct field research. Called "Fro ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Reaches Milestone Approaching Asteroid Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has reached its official approach phase to the asteroid Vesta and will begin using cameras for the first time to aid navigation for an expected July 16 orbital encounter. The ... more
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Cascade raises 59M to develop full stack satellite communications platform
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EXO WORLDS

An Earth as Dense as Lead
A planet that we thought we knew turns out to be rather different than first suspected. A revised view comes from new data released by an international team of astronomers, who made their observatio ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS

NASA probe shows Einstein theory was correct
Huge objects in the universe distort space and time with the force of their gravity, scientists said Wednesday after a NASA probe confirmed two key parts of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Nature of bonding determines thermal conductivity
Optical data carriers such as DVDs, Blu-rays and CD-RWs store data in layers of so-called "phase change materials". In the future, these materials will enable the development of fast, non-volatile a ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA's Dawn probe closes in on giant asteroid
The Dawn space probe is closing in on its first target, the massive asteroid Vesta, almost four years after its journey began in September 2007, NASA said Tuesday. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall
Since the dawn of the space age, humanity has sent 16 robotic emissaries to fly by some of the solar system's most intriguing and nomadic occupants - comets and asteroids. The data and imagery colle ... more
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EXO LIFE

Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand
A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Every now and then, someone picks one up for closer inspection, turning it over and over again ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Geomagnetic Storm Light Show at Both Poles
April 30: A solar wind stream that hit Earth's magnetic field during the weekend sent Northern Lights spilling over the Canadian border into the continental USA. "Magnificent May Day auroras lit up ... more
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IRON AND ICE

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
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SKY NIGHTLY

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
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SKY NIGHTLY

The Dance of the Planets
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 a ... more
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EXO WORLDS

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
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SPACE TRAVEL

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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IRON AND ICE

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
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EXO LIFE

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
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SKY NIGHTLY

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
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SPACE TRAVEL

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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TECH SPACE

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
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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
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IRON AND ICE

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
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SPACE TRAVEL

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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MERCURY RISING

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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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

'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
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TECH SPACE

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
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EXO LIFE

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
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