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Recalculating the Distance to Interstellar SpacePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 2011 Scientists analyzing recent data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have calculated that Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier than previously thought. The findings are detailed in this week's issue of the journal Nature. Data from Voyager's low-energy charged particle instrument, first reported in December 2010, have indicated that the outward speed of the charged particles streaming from the sun has slowed to zero. The stagn ... read more |
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  New Insights on How Solar Minimums Affect Earth Since 1611, humans have recorded the comings and goings of black spots on the sun. The number of these sunspots waxes and wanes over approximately an 11-year cycle - more sunspots generally mean mor ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Discover Earliest Black Holes Astronomers have been peering farther and farther into space, and back in time, using the world's most powerful telescopes to detect galaxies billions of light-years away that existed when the unive ... more | .. |
 SDO Detects Superfast Solar Waves Moving At 2,000 Km Per Second Scientists using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on board NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), have detected quasi-periodic waves in the low solar corona that travel at speeds ... more | .. |
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  Plasma Spectrometer Operations on Hold Mission managers for NASA's Cassini spacecraft suspended operation of the Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, after a series of voltage shifts on the spacecraft. They w ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Adjusts Its Orbit around Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its first orbit-correction maneuver to reset its periapsis altitude - the lowest point of MESSENGER's orbit about Mercury relative to the planet's sur ... more | .. |
 Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots US scientists say the familiar sunspot cycle seems to be entering a hibernation period unseen since the 17th century, a pattern that could have a slight cooling effect on global temperatures. ... more | .. |
 Black holes tell tale of the infant Universe Astronomers have detected faint X-ray signals that they believe were emitted by giant black holes billions of years ago when the Universe was a toddler, a study in the journal Nature said on Wednesday. ... more |
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  An Alien Safari For Enquiring Minds At the most recent NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, a panel of scientists discussed different types of planets where we might find alien life. In part six of this series, the panelists answer a ... more | .. |
 Nearby Galaxy Boasts Two Monster Black Holes, Both Active A study using NASA's Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a second supersized black hole at the heart of an unusual nearby galaxy already known to be sporting one. The g ... more | .. |
  LRO to take extreme close-up of eclipse Orbiting about 31 miles above the lunar surface, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft will get a "front-row seat" to the total lunar eclipse on June 15, says Noah Petro, Associate Pr ... more | .. |
  New insights into the hidden galaxies of the universe A unique example of some of the lowest surface brightness galaxies in the universe have been found by an international team of astronomers lead by the Niels Bohr Institute. The galaxy has lower amou ... more |
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  Dawn spacecraft approaches protoplanet Vesta NASA's Dawn mission to the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which launched in September 2007, is now approaching Vesta, a protoplanet that is currently some 143 million miles ... more | .. |
 Lunar eclipse turns moon blood red The longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade turned the moon blood red on Thursday, giving stargazers around the world a rare visual treat. ... more | .. |
  CoRoT's new detections highlight diversity of exoplanets Ten new exoplanets have been discovered by the European satellite, CoRoT. Confirmed via meticulous, ground-based observations, these exoplanets exhibit a wide variety of masses, densities, orbital p ... more | .. |
  US computer pioneer IBM turns 100 US technology pioneer IBM turns 100 years old on Thursday and while "Big Blue" is no longer the dominant player in the computer industry it remains a force to be reckoned with. ... 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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 Rosetta's first glimpse of the comet Approximately 163 million kilometers still separate ESA's spacecraft Rosetta from comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, its 2014 target. Despite this remarkable distance, scientists from the Max Planck Insti ... more | .. |
 Major Drop In Solar Activity Predicted A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at t ... more | .. |
 Small Sun-watcher Proba-2 offers detailed view of massive solar eruption ESA's Proba-2 small Sun-watcher was among the flotilla of satellites on watch as the Sun erupted spectacularly this week. After years of relative quietness, the Sun is waking up. Tuesday 7 Jun ... more | .. |
 STEREO Sees Complete Far Side The far side unveiled! This is the first complete image of the solar far side, the half of the sun invisible from Earth. Captured on June 1, 2011, the composite image was assembled from NASA's two S ... more |
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Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots For years, scientists have been predicting the Sun would by around 2012 move into solar maximum, a period of intense flares and sunspot activity, but lately a curious calm has suggested quite the opposite. ... more | .. |
 BU researcher plays key role in discovery of new type of neutrino oscillation The international T2K collaboration has announced that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon neutrino to an electron neutrino. Boston U ... more | .. |
 "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 | .. |
 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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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 '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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
Total lunar eclipse set for Africa, Middle East, C. Asia Astronomers in parts of Europe, Africa, Central Asia and Australia were hoping for clear skies on Wednesday to enjoy a total lunar eclipse, the first of 2011 and the longest in nearly 11 years. ... more | .. |
 Good night, Rosetta - European comet chaser goes into hibernation 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 ... more |
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