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![]() Washington (AFP) July 11, 2011 A piece of space junk from a broken Soviet satellite is not expected to collide with the International Space Station after all, NASA said Monday. "Mission Control says the space debris is not going to come close to the space station - no need for an avoidance maneuver," NASA said in a message on the microblogging site Twitter. The US space agency said Sunday that it was tracking the debris and that early information indicated it could have been on a collision course with the orbiting outpost, w ... read more |
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![]() The universe may have been born spinning Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape of the Big Bang mig ... more | .. |
![]() Arlington Planetarium Saved at Last Minute With the deadline of the fundraising campaign approaching, the Friends of Arlington's David M. Brown Planetarium have been making an all out, last ditch effort to hit the goal set in April 2010 by D ... more | .. |
![]() Stardust in our backyard provides new clues to galaxy evolution New data from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory have revealed surprisingly large amounts of cold dust in the remnant of the famous supernova SN1987A, which exploded 24 years ago in the Large Magellan ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Debris may be on collision course with space lab: NASA NASA is tracking a piece of Soviet space debris that could collide with the International Space Station, the US space agency said Sunday after the shuttle Atlantis docked on its final mission. ... more | .. |
![]() Gas Giant Spacecraft All Gassed Up The Juno spacecraft completed hydrazine fuel loading, oxidizer loading and final tank pressurizations this week, and now the complete propulsion system is ready for the trip to Jupiter. The spacecra ... more | .. |
![]() First-Ever View of a Sungrazer Comet In Front of the Sun On the evening of Tuesday, July 5, a comet flew into the sun. Such comets are not unusual, and they're called "sungrazers" since they come so close to the star that it is believed they evaporate and ... more | .. |
![]() Exploding stars can make good dust factories ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered that titanic stellar explosions can be excellent dust factories. In space, the dust mixes with gas to become the raw material for new stars, planets a ... more |
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![]() Dawn Team Members Check out Spacecraft Mission managers for NASA's Dawn spacecraft are studying the spacecraft's ion propulsion system after Dawn experienced a loss of thrust on June 27. Dawn team members were able to trace the epi ... more | .. |
![]() Herschel Helps Solve Mystery of Cosmic Dust Origins New observations from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory reveal that an exploding star expelled the equivalent of between 160,000 and 230,000 Earth masses of fresh dust. This enormous quantity ... more | .. |
![]() Scientists Hope to Get Glimpse 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 | .. |
![]() Islands of Life, Part III In 2005, after years of effort, researchers had all but given up on finding bacterial colonization in the hyperarid core of Chile's Atacama Desert. It was simply too dry, they concluded, to support ... more |
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![]() UC Riverside physicists discover new way to produce antimatter-containing atom Physicists at the University of California, Riverside report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that could help answer what happened to antimat ... more | .. |
![]() NIST mechanical micro-drum cooled to quantum ground state Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a flexible, ... more | .. |
![]() Hydrogen Peroxide Found in Space Molecules of hydrogen peroxide have been found for the first time in interstellar space. The discovery gives clues about the chemical link between two molecules critical for life: water and oxygen. ... more | .. |
![]() Tempest-from-hell seen on Saturn Imagine being caught in a thunderstorm as wide as the Earth with discharges of lightning 10,000 times more powerful than normal, flashing 10 times per second at its peak. ... more |
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![]() Does Asteroid Vesta Have a Moon NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on Vesta, and from now until the ion-powered spacecraft goes into orbit in mid-July, every picture of the giant asteroid will be the best one ever taken. What wi ... more | .. |
![]() The Eye of Gaia a billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting "billion-pixel array" will serve as the supe ... more | .. |
![]() Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observat ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Spacecraft Captures Images and Sounds of Big Saturn Storm Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini fir ... more |
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![]() Juno at T-Minus One Month For Jupiter Launch Window Opening NASA's Juno spacecraft is 30 days before its first launch window opens. "The launch window is the length of time allotted every day for an attempt to launch the spacecraft," said Jan Chodas, J ... more | .. |
![]() Islands of Life, Part II On Monday, we headed over the coastal mountains, up out of Antofagasta, in a pair of rented pickup trucks. Our ultimate goal was the Yungay Desert Research Station, located in an unnamed salar (salt ... more | .. |
![]() Square Kilometer Array telescope may help make contact with aliens The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's most powerful radio telescope in development, may help make contact with aliens, if there is any, Australia's leading astronomer Fred Watson said on Tue ... more | .. |
![]() Cluster observes jet braking and plasma heating High speed plasma flows, often referred to as jets, are extremely common across the Universe. Such jets are observed in Earth's magnetosphere, in solar flares, and near various objects powered by bl ... more |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() Important step in the next generation of computing Scientists have taken one step closer to the next generation of computers. Research from the Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics, provides new insight into spin ... 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() The Most Distant Quasar: Both Headache And Opportunity 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. Th ... more | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() '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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