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WISE Mission Finds First Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth OrbitPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 28, 2011 Astronomers studying observations taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission have discovered the first known "Trojan" asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth. Trojans are asteroids that share an orbit with a planet near stable points in front of or behind the planet. Because they constantly lead or follow in the same orbit as the planet, they never can collide with it. In our solar system, Trojans also share orbits with Neptune, Mars and Jupiter. Two of Saturn's moons sh ... read more |
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  Jupiter-Bound Juno Spacecraft Mated to its Rocket NASA's Juno spacecraft completed its last significant terrestrial journey, July 27, with a 15-mile (25-kilometer) trip from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to its launch pad at the C ... more | .. |
  Messenger Makes Another Successful Orbit Adjustment The Messenger spacecraft continued to fine-tune its orbit around Mercury yesterday afternoon when mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., ... more | .. |
  Exoplanet Aurora Makes For An Out-of-this-World Sight aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thing. New r ... more | .. |
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  Wave power can drive intense heat of Sun A new study sheds light on why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is more than 20 times hotter than its surface. The research, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), may bri ... more | .. |
 SDO Spots Extra Energy in the Solar Corona Like giant strands of seaweed some 32,000 miles high, material shooting up from the sun sways back and forth with the atmosphere. In the ocean, it's moving water that pulls the seaweed along for a r ... more | .. |
  Chandra Observatory Images Gas Flowing Toward Black Hole The flow of hot gas toward a black hole has been clearly imaged for the first time in X-rays. The observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will help tackle two of the most fundamental prob ... more | .. |
  A hot species for cool structures A fungus that lives at extremely high temperatures could help understand structures within our own cells. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Heidelberg Universi ... 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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 Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of DNA Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technolog ... more | .. |
  Enceladus rains water onto Saturn ESA's Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying the so ... more | .. |
 MIT students to build imaging instrument to fly aboard mission to an asteroid The asteroid 1999 RQ36 may not be a household name, but astronomers predict that in less than 200 years, it may make an unforgettable impact. According to radar and optical observations, the space r ... more | .. |
 A new way to measure the expansion of the Universe A PhD student from The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth has produced one of the most accurate measurements ever made of how fast the Universe is expanding. Fl ... more |
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 U.S. research sees hints of Higgs particle A U.S. particle accelerator may have seen hints of the elusive Higgs boson after recent reports of similar glimpses at Europe's Large Hadron Collider lab. ... more | .. |
  Shining a light on the elusive 'blackbody' of energy research A designer metamaterial has shown it can engineer emitted "blackbody" radiation with an efficiency beyond the natural limits imposed by the material's temperature, a team of researchers led by Bosto ... more | .. |
Herschel confirms Enceladus as primary water supply for Saturn atmosphere Observing Saturn, Herschel has detected evidence of water molecules in a huge torus surrounding the planet and centred on the orbit of its small moon, Enceladus. The water plumes on Enceladus, which ... more | .. |
 Planetary Nebula Discovered By Amateur Astronomer In a partnership between amateur and professional astronomers, the recent discovery of a dying star's last gasps could help resolve a decades-old debate among astronomers. That is, are stellar compa ... 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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  Unique volcanic complex discovered on Lunar far side Analysis of new images of a curious "hot spot" on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location of the province a ... more | .. |
 Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought The standard model for elliptical galaxies formation is challenged by a new result uncovered by an international team of astronomers from the Atlas3D collaboration. Team members from CNRS, CEA ... more | .. |
 Neighbor Galaxy Caught Stealing Stars Astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and their collaborators have found that hundreds of the stars found in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) were stolen from another ne ... more | .. |
 Moon Express Announces Dr. Alan Stern as Chief Scientist Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, has revealed that internationally recognized planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern will be the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for the company. ... more |
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 Caltech-Led Astronomers Discover the Largest and Most Distant Reservoir of Water Yet Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever det ... more | .. |
  Four unusual views of the Andromeda Galaxy The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They show stars and structure in the galaxy's disc, the halo of stars ... more | .. |
 Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Photo Dawn took this image during its current orbit of Vesta, traveling from the day side to the night side. The large structure near the south pole that showed up so prominently in previous images ... more | .. |
 Off to a Rocky Start Today was the first day of "sub ops" in the Pavilion Lake Research Project's (PLRP's) exploration of Kelly Lake. For the past couple of days, engineers and technicians worked to put in place the bar ... 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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 Movement of black holes powers the universe's brightest lights Whether on their own or orbiting as a pair, black holes don't typically sit still. Not only do they spin, they can also move laterally across their host galaxy. And according to astrophysicists at B ... more | .. |
 A cosmic superbubble The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way. It contains many regions where clouds of gas and dust are forming new stars. One such region, surrounding the star cluster ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Honored by IEEE for Development of Lunar Module On the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professi ... more | .. |
 Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World Sight Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thin ... more |
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 Distant planet aurorae modeled Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, are spectacular, but on a distant "hot Jupiter" they could be 1,000 times brighter, U.S. astronomers say. ... more | .. |
Fermilab discovers new particle Particle physicists at Fermilab outside Chicago say they've found a new particle, a heavy relative of the neutron, and dubbed it the neutral Xi-sub-b. ... more | .. |
 Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around Vesta After almost four years traveling through space, the NASA Dawn spacecraft reached its destination and entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta on 16 July 2011. On board Dawn, among other instruments, ... more | .. |
  NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite - temporarily designated P4 - was uncovered in a Hubble survey sear ... more |
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