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Nearby Supernova Factory Ramps UpBoston MA (SPX) May 25, 2011 A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better understand how some of the Galaxy's heaviest and youngest stars race through their lives and release newly-forged elements into their surroundings. Located in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Milky Way a mere 7,500 light-years from Earth, the Carina Nebula has long been a favorite target for astronomers ... read more |
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  NASA Sky Cameras Capture Man-Sized Meteor Over Macon, Ga. Astronomers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have recorded the brightest meteor seen by their network in almost three years of operation. On May 20, 2011, at 9:47 p.m. CDT, a six-foot diameter ... more | .. |
  Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer of the ... more | .. |
 Just Four Percent of Galaxies Have Neighbors Like the Milky Way How unique is the Milky Way? To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar galaxies and found that just four percent a ... more | .. |
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  Black Holes Spin Faster And Faster Two UK astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the center of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr. Alejo Martinez-Sansigre of the ... more | .. |
  Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Launch Site by Lockheed Martin NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft were delivered by its builder Lockheed Martin to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on May 20. The two vehicles will undergo four months of final testing and processing in prepa ... more | .. |
  NASA Hopes It's Time To Explore Titan The Cassini spacecraft recently uncovered evidence that implies the possible existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon, Titan. In fact, Titan has been characterized as ... more | .. |
  Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems Just Keeps Growing NASA's Kepler spacecraft is proving itself to be a prolific planet hunter. Within just the first four months of data, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of tho ... more |
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 Bennett team discovers new class of extrasolar planets University of Notre Dame astronomer David Bennett is co-author of a new paper describing the discovery of a new class of planets - dark, isolated Jupiter-mass bodies floating alone in space, far fro ... more | .. |
 Climate scientists reveal new candidate for first habitable exoplanet The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable exop ... more | .. |
 Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supe ... more | .. |
 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at acc ... more |
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  A Timeline to Launch for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, was carried into orbit on STS-134 on a mission to the International Space Station. While it may sound like just another instrument, in actuality it is the la ... more | .. |
  Seeing the Planets for the Trees In the search for life on other planets, scientists are looking beyond single-celled organisms and are developing techniques that would help them detect multicellular life. In a recent study publish ... more | .. |
  Researchers gain new insights into Comet Hartley 2 A tumbling comet nucleus with a changing rotational rate has been observed for the first time, according to a new paper by a Planetary Science Institute researcher. These findings, as well as ... more | .. |
  Measuring the Magnetic Field of Mercury MESSENGER carries a sensitive Magnetometer that measures the vector magnetic field at the location of the spacecraft. The instrument is mounted on the end of a 3.6-m-long boom that extends away from ... 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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 AMS: ready to discover the particle universe The largest and most complex scientific instrument yet to be fitted to the International Space Station was installed Thursday. Taken into space by the Space Shuttle, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ... more | .. |
  Astronomers in light battle in Arizona Astronomers in Arizona say their work is being hampered by light pollution from an unexpected source - the drug war and smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Two Lunar-Bound Spacecraft, Vacuum-Packed NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (Grail) spacecraft have completed all assembly and testing prior to shipment to Florida. As seen in the photo, taken April 29, technicians i ... more | .. |
 Looking Deep into a Huge Storm on Saturn ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has teamed up with NASA's Cassini spacecraft to study a rare storm in the atmosphere of the planet Saturn in more detail than has ever been possible before. The new ... more |
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 NASA selects SwRI mass spectrometer for technology development NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute's MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (MASPEX) for technology development funding. Originally offered as part of the Primitive Material Explore ... more | .. |
 Free-Floating Planets May be More Common Than Stars Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lon ... more | .. |
 Researchers Gain New Insights Into Comet Hartley 2 A tumbling comet nucleus with a changing rotational rate has been observed for the first time, according to a new paper by a Planetary Science Institute researcher. These findings, as well as ... more | .. |
 Searching for Aliens on Kepler's Planets Now that NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the mo ... more |
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
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 Scheduling the Unknown What's the most effective way to explore an unknown world? That's one question that members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP), with a bit of help from NASA mission planners, hope to addre ... more | .. |
 Oldest 'space dust' on Earth found A Japanese geologist says he's discovered the oldest known bits of micrometeorites - space dust - to have fallen on the Earth, 240 million years ago. ... more | .. |
 New SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets Now that NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the mo ... more | .. |
 At the Heart of Hartley-2, a New Breed of Comet? At the heart of every comet lies a remnant of the dawn of the solar system. Or is that remnants? Astronomers don't know, but the answer would give them a clearer picture of exactly how comets were b ... more |
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 Haumea Shines with Crystalline Ice The fifth dwarf planet of the solar system, Haumea, and at least one of its two satellites, are covered in crystalline water-ice due to the tidal forces between them and the heat of radiogenic eleme ... more | .. |
 Banker's bonus to retain UK pre-eminence in particle physics and astronomy The Institute of Physics (IOP) has welcomed the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee's report on Astronomy and Particle Physics, which warns of the damage that cuts to research and cap ... more | .. |
 Study suggest water on distant planet Mounting evidence indicates a planet orbiting a star 20 light years away could be the first habitable planet other than Earth, French researchers say. ... more | .. |
  How to control complex networks At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system futile. However, an MIT researc ... more |
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