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Neutron star bites off more than it can chewParis, France (ESA) Jun 29, 2011 ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory has watched a faint star flare up at X-ray wavelengths to almost 10 000 times its normal brightness. Astronomers believe the outburst was caused by the star trying to eat a giant clump of matter. The flare took place on a neutron star, the collapsed heart of a once much larger star. Now about 10 km in diameter, the neutron star is so dense that it generates a strong gravitational field. The clump of matter was much larger than the neutron star and came from its ... read more |
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  Space debris a growing problem A scare triggered by orbital debris that on Tuesday came within a couple of hundred metres (yards) of the International Space Station (ISS) sheds light on an acutely worsening problem. ... more | .. |
  Volunteer Star Gazers Needed for NASA Mission Calling all amateur star gazers: Scientists need your help. A team from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville has developed the website IceHunters, which challenges the public to discover pot ... more | .. |
  Dawn Journal - June 2011 Vesta beckons, and Dawn responds. Now more than halfway through its approach to Vesta, Dawn continues creeping up on the destination it has been pursuing since it began its interplanetary travels. T ... more | .. |
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 New comet could put on 2013 show U.S. scientists say a newly discovered comet could provide an astronomical spectacle when it swings through the solar system in 2013. ... more | .. |
  Williams and MIT Astronomers Observe Pluto and its Moons A Williams College team of astronomers, headed by Bryce Babcock and Jay Pasachoff, have been in Hawaii, near Honolulu, to observe a rare double-double event about Pluto. On June 23rd, they observed ... more | .. |
Debris narrowly misses International Space Station A piece of space debris narrowly missed the International Space Station on Tuesday in a rare incident that forced the six-member crew to scramble to their rescue craft, space agency officials said. ... more | .. |
  Juno Blanket Check As the Juno spacecraft is elevated by a rotation fixture, a technician at Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., examines the installation of blankets on the aft deck. The imag ... more |
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
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  Moon Geyser Finding Significant, UCF Scientist Says A team of international astronomers this week reported that a salt-water reservoir is the likely source of geyser plumes observed on Enceladus - one of Saturn's moons. Joshua Colwell, a Univer ... more | .. |
  Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system Two papers in this week's issue of Science report the first oxygen and nitrogen isotopic measurements of the Sun, demonstrating that they are very different from the same elements on Earth. These re ... more | .. |
  Breathing Through the Eyes Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us - and all the other animals on the planet - beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains ... more | .. |
 Microsoft takes Office into the 'cloud' Microsoft took its Office software into the Internet "cloud" on Tuesday, moving the suite of popular business tools online amid budding competition from Google's Web-based products. ... more |
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 Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure how to ca ... more | .. |
 Tasting the Ocean Spray of Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more | .. |
 How to Keep Lonely Exoplanets Snug - Just Add Dark Matter! Dark matter is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when considering how life can be supported on another planet, but to Dan Hooper and Jason Steffen of the Fermilab Center for Particle As ... more | .. |
  Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon ne ... 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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  ARTEMIS Spacecraft Prepare for Lunar Orbit They've almost arrived. It took one and a half years, over 90 orbit maneuvers, and - wonderfully - many gravitational boosts and only the barest bit of fuel to move two spacecraft from their orbit a ... more | .. |
Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early Augus ... more | .. |
 The Flames of Betelgeuse Using the VISIR instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have imaged a complex and bright nebula around the supergiant star Betelgeuse in greater detail than ever before. This str ... more | .. |
NASA Mission Suggests Sun and Planets Constructed Differently Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's 2004 Genesis mission have discovered that our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than previously thought. Data revealed difference ... more |
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  Microlensing Finds a Rocky Planet In planet hunting today, there seems to be one burning question that nearly every new article published touches on: Where did these planets come from? As astronomers discovered the first extrasolar ... more | .. |
Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more | .. |
 Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus' water plumes The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence yet fo ... 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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 Pandora's Cluster Revealed One of the most complicated and dramatic collisions between galaxy clusters ever seen is captured in this new composite image. This collision site, known officially as Abell 2744, has been dubbed "P ... more | .. |
A Galactic Crash Investigation A team of scientists has studied the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster. They have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes in space and on the ... more | .. |
 Saltwater ocean lurks beneath Saturn moon - study A strange moon of Saturn may have a salty ocean lurking beneath its iceball surface, according to a study appearing Wednesday in the British journal Nature. ... more | .. |
 Public Invited to Find Destination for New Horizons The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the IceHunters.org website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the ... more |
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 Astronomers Discover That Galaxies Are Either Asleep or Awake Astronomers have probed into the distant universe and discovered that galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors: they are either awake or asleep, actively forming stars or are not forming any 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 | .. |
 LRO Showing Us the Moon as Never Before NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has forever changed our view of the moon, literally bringing it into sharper focus and showing us the whole globe in unprecedented detail. This rich n ... 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 |
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