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Interstellar Crashes Could Toss Out Habitable PlanetsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2011 Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by Professor Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bonn. The astronomers, who publish their model in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, find that forming planetary systems may be knocked around by crashes with nearby clumps of material, leading to systems where planets have highly inclined orbits and where the smaller (and pote ... read more |
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 Avoiding An Ape-pocalypse This is a story about how a mob of intelligent, institutionalized, drugged-up apes organize to overthrow their human oppressors and ignite a planetary revolt. But enough about my graduate school day ... more | .. |
  Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say i ... more | .. |
  Space Station Crew Enjoys Eye-Level View of Perseid Meteor Shower With the bright moon that was out on the evening of August 13, many astronomy buffs were not able to fully appreciate the spectacular Perseid meteor shower going on in the night sky. From the Intern ... more | .. |
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  International team to use Hubble Space Telescope to answer key astronomy questions An international team of scientists led by the University of Exeter is aiming to answer some of the biggest questions facing astronomy today. The team has secured a large programme of nearly 200 hou ... more | .. |
  Giant Space Blob Glows from Within Observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have shed light on the power source of a rare vast cloud of glowing gas in the early Universe. The observations show for the first time that this giant " ... more | .. |
 Glorious Perseids The summer's best meteor shower peaked on the weekend of Aug. 12-13. Even though the Perseids were hampered by a bright, full moon they were something to behold! The Perseids have been observe ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Find Ice and Possibly Methane on Snow White Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10-nicknamed Snow White-is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice ... more |
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 Fewer stars as universe runs low on gas: study Australian scientists gazing billions of years back in time with powerful radio telescopes on Monday warned that the universe's lights - the stars - were quite literally running out of gas. ... more | .. |
 New method could provide early warning of dangerous solar flares Viewed from the technological perspective of modern humans, the sun is a seething cauldron of disruptive influences that can wreak havoc on communication systems, air travel, power grids and satelli ... more | .. |
 Hubble to Target 'Hot Jupiters' An international team of astronomers led by a former UA graduate student has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" - massive planets in solar syste ... more | .. |
  Man in the Moon Looking Younger Earth's Moon could be younger than previously thought, according to new research from a team that includes Carnegie's Richard Carlson and former-Carnegie fellow Maud Boyet. Their work will be publis ... more |
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 Breathing new life into Earth Today, oxygen takes up a hefty portion of Earth's atmosphere: Life-sustaining O2 molecules make up 21 percent of the air we breathe. However, very early in Earth's history, O2 was a rare - if not co ... more | .. |
 New images reveal structures of the solar wind as it travels toward and impacts Earth Using data collected by NASA's STEREO spacecraft, researchers at Southwest Research Institute and the National Solar Observatory have developed the first detailed images of solar wind structures as ... more | .. |
 Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say i ... more | .. |
 GRAIL Moon Twins are Joined to Their Booster NASA's lunar-bound GRAIL twins were mated to their Delta II launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17 at 8:45 a.m. EDT (5:45 a.m. PDT) Thursday. The 15-mile (2 ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
NASA teams with India to launch Earth-tracking satellite
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 Do You Want Amino Acid In Your Alphabet Soup All life on Earth relies on a standard set of 20 molecules called amino acids to build the proteins that carry out life's essential actions. But did it have to be this way? All living creature ... more | .. |
  A Hint of Higgs - Update from the LHC The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists - including some from Caltech - announced ... more | .. |
  The PI's Perspective: Visiting Four Moons, in Just Four Years, for All Mankind New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now approximately 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is - well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. On July 1, we completed ... more | .. |
 Moon younger than previously thought Analysis of a piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 has shown that the Moon may be much younger than previously believed. This is concluded in new research ... more |
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  What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn's moon Titan? Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface? A research group led by Jonathan L. Mitchell, UCLA assistant profess ... more | .. |
 Better method for predicting sunspots: study Scientists said Thursday they can now better predict when sunspots will erupt, offering earlier warning of magnetic disruptions that can cut power and interrupt communications on Earth. ... more | .. |
 Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet A group of astronomers led by an MIT professor has spotted an exoplanetary eclipse of a star only 40 light years away - right around the corner, astronomically speaking - revealing a "super-Earth." ... more | .. |
  Comet Elenin Poses No Threat to Earth Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, but most pose no threat to Earth. Comet Elenin, the latest comet to visit our inner solar system, is no excep ... more |
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
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 NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid In a few years a NASA spacecraft will seek the building blocks of life in a shovelful of asteroid dirt. The OSIRIS-REx1 spacecraft, targeted for launch in September 2016, will intercept asteroid 199 ... more | .. |
 Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections ... more | .. |
 Jodie Foster helps keep search for aliens alive "Contact" star Jodie Foster was among donors helping to revive the 42 radio telescope dishes at a key California institute searching for extraterrestrial life, the group said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 A Cosmic Exclamation Point VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the f ... more |
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 GRAIL Launch Less Than One Month Away NASA's twin lunar probes - GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B - completed their final inspections and were weighed one final time at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Tuesday. T ... more | .. |
 Supernovae parents found Type Ia supernovae are violent stellar explosions whose brightness is used to determine distances in the universe. Observing these objects to billions of light years away has led to the discovery th ... more | .. |
 Alien World is Blacker than Coal Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight fal ... more | .. |
 Hubble Offers a Dazzling Necklace A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered planetary nebula, the glowing remains of ... more |
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