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The Most Distant Quasar: Both Headache And OpportunityHilo HI (SPX) Jul 04, 2011 An international team of astronomers have announced the discovery of the most distant known supermassive black hole, seen as a luminous quasar [1] caused by gas falling into the black hole. The discovery came to light using data from an ongoing infrared sky survey being conducted at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and critical follow-up confirmation observations with the Gemini North telescope, both on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i. The results are presented in the June 30, 2011 issue of the ... read more |
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  Integral challenges physics beyond Einstein ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory has provided results that will dramatically affect the search for physics beyond Einstein. It has shown that any underlying quantum 'graininess' of space must be ... more | .. |
  Sulfurous Signs of Life Any sulfurous molecules that astronomers spot on alien worlds might be a way to reveal whether or not those distant planets host life, researchers suggest. On Earth, microbes can live off the ... more | .. |
 Gaining Glimpses of Adolescent Universe from Revolutionary Instrument-on-a-Chip Scientists know what the universe looked like when it was a baby. They know what it looks like today. What they don't know is how it looked in its youth. Thanks to technological advances, however, s ... more | .. |
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  Marshall Center's Bassler Leads NASA Robotic Lander Work Growing up on a working farm in rural Breese, Ill., NASA engineer Julie Bassler constantly found her attention drawn away from the tranquility of farm life by the thunder of jets from nearby Scott A ... more | .. |
 'Zombie' stars key to measuring dark energy "Zombie" stars that explode like bombs as they die, only to revive by sucking matter out of other stars. According to an astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara, this isn't the plot for the latest 3D blo ... more | .. |
 Astronomers reveal a cosmic 'axis of evil' Astronomers are puzzled by the announcement that the masses of the largest objects in the Universe appear to depend on which method is used to weigh them. The new work was presented at a specialist ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in the distant, earl ... more |
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
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  Studying solar wind NASA's Genesis mission crash-landed back on Earth in 2004. The spacecraft spent more than two years in orbit around the sun collecting solar wind, which consists of charged particles, on various ult ... more | .. |
 Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, this nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula ... more | .. |
  Richard Binzel on near-Earth asteroids On Monday at approximately 1:14 p.m. EDT, an asteroid named 2011 MD will pass only 7,500 miles above Earth's surface - a close call in astronomical terms. The asteroid was discovered only last week ... more | .. |
 'Odd Couple' Binary Makes Dual Gamma-ray Flares In December 2010, a pair of mismatched stars in the southern constellation Crux whisked past each other at a distance closer than Venus orbits the sun. The system possesses a so-far unique blend of ... more |
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 Most Distant Quasar Found A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a bla ... more | .. |
 Study rates countries' risk from asteroid A study by British researchers has identified countries that would be worst affected in the event of a catastrophic asteroid strike on Earth. ... more | .. |
 NASA puts space probe into lunar orbit NASA says the first of two spacecraft that will study the moon is safely in its lunar orbit after successful maneuvers guided by flight engineers in California. ... more | .. |
 Scientists shed light on the private lives of electrons A Princeton researcher and his international collaborators have used lasers to peek into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment, a breakthrough that could aid the dev ... 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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 Bright galaxy sheds light on early Universe Astronomers said on Wednesday they had snared light from a bright, ancient galaxy with a super-massive black hole at its core, a finding that would help explain aspects of the young Universe. ... 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 | .. |
 Neutron star bites off more than it can chew 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 ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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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