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Dawn - first visual contact with VestaBonn, Germany (SPX) May 12, 2011 The camera system on board the Dawn spacecraft has acquired its first image of the massive asteroid Vesta. Although the mission's first target is still about 975,000 kilometres away, appearing as just a large white dot, "we now have visual contact with our objective," said Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). In August 2011, the camera will photograph the asteroid from an orbit with a planned survey altitude of 2700 kilometres; the data will then be processed to develop a three-dimen ... read more |
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  Science Highlights from Mercury's Orbit As the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, MESSENGER has the opportunity to make many observations of the Solar System's innermost planet that had not previously been possible. Each of MES ... more | .. |
  Flipping Hot Jupiters More than 500 extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than the sun - have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these syste ... more | .. |
  NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ... more | .. |
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 What a scorcher: 'Hot Jupiter' puzzle explained Scientists on Wednesday said they could explain why heat-seared giant planets in other solar systems can mysteriously orbit their star the "wrong" way. ... more | .. |
  Doppler effect found even at molecular level - 169 years after its discovery Whether they know it or not, anyone who's ever gotten a speeding ticket after zooming by a radar gun has experienced the Doppler effect - a measurable shift in the frequency of radiation based on th ... more | .. |
 Raging storms sweep away galactic gas ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has detected raging winds of molecular gas streaming away from galaxies. Suspected for years, these outflows may have the power to strip galaxies of gas and ... 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 |
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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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  Fundamental question on how life started solved 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 Bo ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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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  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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 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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