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![]() Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2011 For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with US colleagues, physicists from the University of Bonn and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have been able to calculate this legendary carbon nucleus, solving a problem that has kept science guessing for more than 50 years. The researchers published their results in the coming issue of the scientific journal Physical Review Letters. "Attempts to calculate the Hoy ... read more |
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![]() NASA's Spaceward Bound Takes Teachers Trekking across the Mojave Desert What clues found on Earth do NASA scientists use to help them deduce that there may be life on other planets? Can the same process be applied in the classroom to inspire and motivate the next genera ... more | .. |
![]() Engineering Tests Leading The Way For NASA's Next Neemo Mission To determine how best to explore asteroids in the future, NASA scientists and engineers are taking their experiments underwater in the 15th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, ... more | .. |
![]() Planets Align in the Morning Sky Have you ever woken up at the crack of dawn, shuffled to the kitchen counter for your first cup of joe, only to discover that you're out of coffee beans? Cruel. This week it's not a problem, because ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Space Adventures proposes modified Soyuz TMA for Lunar tourists U.S. Space Adventures, the only company currently offering tourist orbital spaceflights, has offered to equip the Russian Soyuz TMA spaceship with additional living space for eight-day commercial fl ... more | .. |
![]() China launches rocket to monitor space environment China successfully launched a space environment-monitoring rocket Saturday morning from the southern island province of Hainan as part of the nation's key "Meridian Project." The rocket was se ... more | .. |
![]() Messenger Completes First 100 Orbits Of Mercury MESSENGER has completed its 100th orbit around Mercury. Since its insertion into orbit about the innermost planet on March 17, the spacecraft has executed nearly 2 million commands. The data g ... more | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() First IAC in Africa: Global space actors to meet in Cape Town 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 ... more | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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