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June 13, 2011
IRON AND ICE
Good night, Rosetta - European comet chaser goes into hibernation
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 13, 2011
On 8 June 2011, the Rosetta spacecraft will be put into hibernation after having travelled through space for more than seven years. To reduce energy consumption, the European probe will be flying in 'economy mode' as it heads towards its destination, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. But this will be no break for researchers at the German Aerospace Center; they will continue to train in preparation for Rosetta's arrival in May 2014. Six months after reaching the comet, Philae, the Rosetta lande ... read more

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TIME AND SPACE

Physicists hit on mathematical description of superfluid dynamics
It has been 100 years since the discovery of superconductivity, a state achieved when mercury was cooled, with the help of liquid helium, to nearly the coldest temperature achievable to form a super ... more
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MOON DAILY

Blood Red Moon Predicted
Get set for an amazing adventure. The eclipse will be visible over more than half the globe, throughout most of South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Australia. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Meteorite holds clues to organic chemistry of the early Earth
Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of organic-rich meteorite that contain samples of the materials that took part in the creation of our planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago, including materials tha ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Quest for 'God particle' has setback
Scientists chasing the elusive particle known as the Higgs boson - thought to be the origin of mass - expressed disappointment when a U.S. lab turned up zip. ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER's Solar Arrays Probe to Operate in Extreme Temperatures Orbiting Mercury
Key technologies and hardware developed by Northrop Grumman gave the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury a power system that works to its maximum even in the searing heat that surrounds the planet clo ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid Served Up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients
Some asteroids may have been like "molecular factories" cranking out life's ingredients and shipping them to Earth via meteorite impacts, according to scientists who've made discoveries of molecules ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reache ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Solar system edge 'bunches' in magnetic bubbles: NASA
A pair of NASA probes wandering in deep space discovered that the outer edge of the solar system contains curious magnetic bubbles and is not smooth as previously thought, astronomers said Thursday. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New data still have scientists in dark over dark matter
A dark-matter experiment deep in the Soudan mine of Minnesota now has detected a seasonal signal variation similar to one an Italian experiment has been reporting for more than a decade. The n ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Rosetta comet probe enters hibernation in deep space
The final command placing ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser into deep-space hibernation has been sent. With virtually all systems shut down, the probe will now coast for 31 months until waking up in 2014 f ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Releases New Lunar Eclipse Video
In anticipation of the upcoming lunar eclipse later this month, NASA has released a new video that shows how lunar eclipses work. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team will release anoth ... more
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MERCURY RISING

A Mariner 10 Perspective on MESSENGER: A First-person Account
Forty years ago, in 1971, I became a member of the Mariner 10 imaging science team. This Mercury flyby mission was intended to gather atmospheric data at Venus and geological and geophysical data at ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New class of stellar explosions found
They're bright and blue-and a bit strange. They're a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Amon ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Comet-chasing probe goes into hibernation in 10-year trek
A billion-euro (1.47-billion-dollar) space probe was placed in hibernation on Wednesday until 2014, when it will be woken for a deep-space rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Innovative device for quantum simulations
A team of researchers from Columbia Engineering, the Italian National Research Council, Princeton University, University of Missouri, and University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) has developed an artifi ... more
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A weakening forest buffer challenges EU climate goals
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TIME AND SPACE

Neutron analysis explains dynamics behind best thermoelectric materials
Neutron analysis of the atomic dynamics behind thermal conductivity is helping scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a deeper understanding of how thermoelectri ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

"Oddball" Star Cluster is a Hybrid
Scientists will tell you that the romantic idea is factually true: we are made of the same stuff as stars. In fact, all chemical elements heavier than helium are made in the stars, and research into ... more
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ECLIPSES

A Rare Eclipse of the Midnight Sun
It sounds like an oxymoron: a solar eclipse at midnight. According to NASA, it's about to happen. "It might sound like a contradiction to have a solar eclipse in the middle of the night, but this is ... more
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MOON DAILY

Looking at the volatile side of the Moon
Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA's proposed Lunar Lander mission to fin ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Mapping mayhem where Sun's magnetic influence wanes
When Voyager 1 passed into the heliosheath in 2004, it became the first man-made object to explore the remote edge of the Sun's magnetic influence. The heliosheath, from 1.5 to 15 billion kilo ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Probing the Origins of Extreme Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are the unimaginably dense corpses of what were once much more massive stars that died while being ripped apart in a supernova explosion. Their average density is typically more than o ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

'Dead' galaxies aren't so dead after all
University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars. The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with time. U-M re ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

A Night with the Stars...in a Conference Room
Ancient astronomers looked up at the dark skies in wonder, as the stars marched by overhead like precision dancers. In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei brought the world one step closer to th ... more
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
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MERCURY RISING

The Shape of Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft, recently injected into orbit about the Solar Systems' inner-most planet is already yielding important new information about Mercury. This spacecraft carries a laser altimet ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

'Dramatic' solar flare could disrupt Earth communications
An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Apple takes a giant leap into the 'iCloud' cloud
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Monday interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Catches "Surfer" Waves on the Sun
Cue the surfing music. Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energ ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Weizmann Institute Observatory Captures Images of a New Supernova
Exploding stars are the "factories" that produce all the heavy elements found, among other places, in our bodies. In this sense, we are all stardust. These exploding stars - supernovae - are highly ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Astrophysicists use X-ray fingerprints to study eating habits of giant black holes
By studying the X-rays emitted when superheated gases plunge into distant and massive black holes, astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have provided an important test of a long-st ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System
Jupiter, long settled in its position as the fifth planet from our sun, was a rolling stone in its youth. Over the eons, the giant planet roamed toward the center of the solar system and back out ag ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Measuring certainty in quantum physics world
Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and ... more
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