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Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of VestaPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 02, 2011 NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begins Aug. 11, at an altitude of nearly 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers) and will provide in-depth analysis of the asteroid. Vesta is the brightest object in the asteroid belt as seen from Earth and is thought to be the source of a large number of meteorites that fall to Earth. The Dawn team unveiled the fir ... read more |
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  Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def When it comes to magnetic fields, Jupiter is the ultimate muscle car. It's endowed with the biggest, brawniest field of any planet in the solar system, powered by a monster engine under the hood. ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder faculty part of Juno Mission to Jupiter Several University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expecte ... more | .. |
  Reinventing Space We have been using the space environment for the last 50+ years. Satellites have been placed in orbits that take advantage of natural perturbations while offering convenient geometries for various m ... more | .. |
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  Heart Of Darkness Found Astronomers using the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii have confirmed in a new paper that a troupe of about 1,000 small, dim stars just outside the Milky Way comprise the darkest known galaxy, a ... more | .. |
 Herschel uncovers hidden oxygen in Orion Herschel has found the first robust evidence of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula. The observed abundance is ten times larger than indicated by previous observations of other molecular clouds, bu ... more | .. |
 What Lies Inside Jupiter Jupiter's swirling clouds can be seen through any department store telescope. With no more effort than it takes to bend over an eyepiece, you can witness storm systems bigger than Earth navigating r ... more | .. |
 NASA's Juno to circle Jupiter for 'planetary recipe' The US space agency plans to launch next week a solar-powered spacecraft called Juno that will journey to the gassy planet of Jupiter in search of how the huge, stormy giant was formed. ... more |
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 SOHO Watches a Comet Fading Away On Nov. 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI spacecraft came within 450 miles of Comet Hartley 2, a small comet not even a mile in diameter, which takes about six and a half years to orbit the sun. Designated offi ... more | .. |
 Dawn Views Dark Side of Vesta Dawn took this image over Vesta's northern hemisphere after the spacecraft completed its first passage over the dark side of the giant asteroid. It is northern hemisphere winter on Vesta now, so its ... more | .. |
 'Trojan' asteroid shares Earth's orbit Earth is not alone in its orbit around the Sun - a small 'Trojan' asteroid sits in front of our planet and leads it, according to British science revue Nature, which published the discovery Thursday. ... 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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Are cancers newly evolved species Cancer patients may view their tumors as parasites taking over their bodies, but this is more than a metaphor for Peter Duesberg, a molecular and cell biology professor at the University of Californ ... 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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 Hunting For Worms From Hell If you're on a quest for "worms from Hell," you have to be prepared for some tough going. You have to be an intrepid adventurer and a scientific risk-taker, someone with a high tolerance for discomf ... more | .. |
  Physicists show that quantum ignorance is hard to expose No-one likes a know-it-all but we expect to be able to catch them out: someone who acts like they know everything but doesn't can always be tripped up with a well-chosen question. Can't they? Not so ... more | .. |
 WISE Mission Finds First Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth Orbit 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. Trojan ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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