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Cassini Captures Ice Queen HelenePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 21, 2011 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. At closest approach, on June 18, Cassini flew within 4,330 miles (6,968 kilometers) of Helene's surface. It was the second closest approach to Helene of the entire mission. Cassini passed from Helene's night side to the moon's sunlit side. It also captured images of the Saturn-facing side of the moon in sunlight, a region that was only illumina ... read more |
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  International team to discover neutrinos can change 'flavors' An international research team led by Japan and including the University of Colorado Boulder may have taken a significant step in discovering why matter trumped antimatter at the time of the Big Ban ... more | .. |
  Scientist analyzes the nucleus of comet Hartley 2 Nearly one year ago, a repurposed NASA spacecraft flew by the comet Hartley 2. As a result, a multitude of high-resolution images were gathered over 50 days that allow scientists to understand the n ... more | .. |
  NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest NASA's largest supercomputer is seventh on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in ... more | .. |
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  MESSENGER Endures Its First Hot Season Yesterday the MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed the first of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit about Mercury. During these hot seasons, the ... more | .. |
  Model Ordinance to Promote Responsible Outdoor Lighting International Dark-Sky Association The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) announce public release of the Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO), a valuab ... more | .. |
  Firestorm of Star Birth in the Active Galaxy Centaurus A Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-in ... more | .. |
 Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds New Distant Comet Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013. Originally found by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on ... 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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 European endorsement for space hazards program The European Commission recently set out the EU's main space priorities, which include protection of Europe's space assets. The affirmation spotlights the Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Pro ... more | .. |
  Scientists Prove Existence of Magnetic Ropes that Cause Solar Storms George Mason University scientists discovered recently that a phenomenon called a giant magnetic rope is the cause of solar storms. Confirming the existence of this formation is a key first step in ... more | .. |
 Coming Into Focus Minor Planet Vesta While NASA's space probe Dawn is continuing its approach towards Vesta, the camera system on board is beginning to show the giant asteroid in more and more detail. The newest pictures taken on ... more | .. |
  A golden age of exoplanet discovery An exciting meeting yesterday, Wednesday 15 June 2011, held at the Institute of Physics (IOP) in partnership with the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), saw leading experts explain how far the field ... more |
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  Black hole kills star and blasts 3.8 billion light year beam at Earth Research led by astronomers at the University of Warwick has confirmed that the flash from one of the biggest and brightest bangs yet recorded by astronomers comes from a massive black hole at the c ... more | .. |
 Japanese supercomputer becomes world's fastest A Japanese supercomputer has become the fastest in the world, making calculations more than three times faster than a Chinese rival, its developers said Monday. ... 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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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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  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 | .. |
 UMD-Led EPOXI Science Team Publishes Latest Comet Findings Comet Hartley 2, is in a hyperactive class of its own compared to other comets visited by spacecraft, says a University of Maryland-led study published in the June 17 issue of the journal Science. T ... more | .. |
  Penn State expert determined to find life on Earth-like planets Thanks to popular Hollywood films like "E.T.," "Avatar" and "Super 8," life on other planets seems highly conceivable to people who have considered the idea that we are not alone in the universe. Ji ... more |
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
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 CMU and Astrobotic Technology Complete Structural Assembly of Lunar Lander Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have completed structural assembly of the lunar landing craft that will deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon in 2014. The hal ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Confirms Theories, Sees Surprises at Mercury NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important clues to the origin of the planet and ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Provides New Data about Mercury After nearly three months in orbit about Mercury, MESSENGER's payload is providing a wealth of new information about the planet closest to the Sun, as well as a few surprises. The spacecraft e ... more | .. |
 Science Paper Details NASA Epoxi Flyby of Hyper Comet Comet Hartley 2's hyperactive state, as studied by NASA's EPOXI mission, is detailed in a new paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science. After visiting a comet and imaging distant ... more |
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 NASA's Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... more | .. |
 Star-eating black hole sends flash from distant galaxy A bright gamma-ray flash seen in March came from a distant galaxy nearly four billion light years away where a Sun-sized star was being eaten by a black hole, US astronomers said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Neutrinos change flavors while crossing Japan By shooting a beam of neutrinos through a small slice of the Earth under Japan, physicists say they've caught the particles changing their stripes in new ways. These observations may one day help ex ... 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 |
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