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Hubble movies reveal solar-system-sized traffic jamsHouston TX (SPX) Sep 01, 2011 When it comes to big-budget action movies, Rice University astronomer Patrick Hartigan prefers Hubble to Hollywood. Using Hubble Space Telescope images collected over 14 years, Hartigan has created time-lapse movies that offer astronomers their first glimpse of the dynamic behavior of stellar jets, huge torrents of gas and particles that spew from the poles of newborn stars. An analysis of the movies that was published in The Astrophysical Journal is forcing astronomers to rethink some of the proc ... read more |
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  Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA's Swift satellite firs ... more | .. |
 VLT Looks into The Eyes of the Virgin ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken a striking image of a beautiful yet peculiar pair of galaxies nicknamed The Eyes. The larger of these, NGC 4438, was once a spiral galaxy but has become badly de ... more | .. |
  New Ohio Park Protects Nighttime Environment An overcast sky in Geauga County, Ohio, did not dampen the enthusiasm of the 1,500 people attending Observatory Park's dedication on 20 August, when it announced its full status as an International ... more | .. |
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 NASA's Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body. Astronomers hun ... more | .. |
 An atlas of the Milky Way It may not be much use to hitchhikers through the galaxy, but it is extremely valuable to astronomers: the new radio atlas of the Milky Way. After almost ten years of work, researchers at the Max Pl ... more | .. |
  40 year old Mariner 5 solar wind problem finds answer Research led by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick has resolved a 40 year old problem with observations of turbulence in the solar wind first made by the probe Mariner Five. The research r ... more | .. |
  Lost Russian satellite poses threat to space navigation The Russian heavy satellite Express-AM4 lost on Aug. 18 might pose a threat to other space vehicles, local media reported Friday. Citing a source in the space industry, Interfex news agency sa ... more |
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Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
Slingshot unveils TALOS AI to simulate and support strategic space operations
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 Are stellar explosions created equal? Cosmic distances are difficult to grasp and no less difficult to measure. When it comes to other galaxies or even remote parts of our own Milky Way, distance measurements are nothing but assessments ... more | .. |
 Galaxies are running out of gas The Universe forms fewer stars than it used to, and a CSIRO study has now shown why - the galaxies are running out of gas. Dr Robert Braun (CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science) and his colleagues used ... more | .. |
  Dolphins, Aliens, and the Search for Intelligent Life How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, su ... more | .. |
 Scientists put a new spin on traditional information technology Sending information by varying the properties of electromagnetic waves has served humanity well for more than a century, but as our electronic chips steadily shrink, the signals they carry can bleed ... more |
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 Surprise difference in neutrino and antineutrino mass lessening with new measurements The physics community got a jolt last year when results showed for the first time that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, might be the odd man out in the particle world and ... more | .. |
  Greenhouse Effect Could Extend Habitable Zone The distant region beyond Saturn is too cold for liquid water, a necessity for life as we know it. But new research indicates that rocky planets far from their parent star could generate enough heat ... more | .. |
  Cassini Closes in on Saturn's Tumbling Moon Hyperion NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured new views of Saturn's oddly shaped moon Hyperion during its encounter with this cratered body on Thursday, Aug. 25. Raw images were acquired as the spacecraf ... more | .. |
  Armstrong relives historic Moon landing It's more than 40 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, but his memories of the historic flight remain as undimmed as his passion for further exploration of space. ... 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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 Notre Dame astrophysicists identify missing fuel for galactic star formation The Milky Way will have the fuel to continue forming stars, thanks to massive clouds of ionized gas raining down from its halo and intergalactic space. This is the conclusion of a new study by Nicol ... more | .. |
 China joins antimatter search China has joined the hunt for antimatter with a pair of anti-neutrino detectors deep in a hillside near Hong Kong, particle physicists said. ... more | .. |
  Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust parti ... more | .. |
 Berkeley scientists discover an 'instant cosmic classic' supernova A supernova discovered yesterday is closer to Earth-approximately 21 million light-years away-than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours o ... more |
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 Exotic Galaxy Reveals Tantalizing Tale A galaxy with a combination of characteristics never seen before is giving astronomers a tantalizing peek at processes they believe played key roles in the growth of galaxies and clusters of galaxie ... more | .. |
 NASA Moon Mission in Final Preparations for September Launch NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... more | .. |
 Caught in the act: Black hole rips apart a star A black hole described as a "cosmic monster" lurking at the heart of a galaxy has been recorded as it tore apart a luckless star, astronomers report in the journal Nature on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now astrophysicists from the University of Zurich present the w ... more |
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Bridges gain new voice through real time GNSS monitoring of structural behavior
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials
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 NASA's Next Generation Robotic Lander Gets Sideways During Test During a recent test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the robotic lander prototype, known as Mighty Eagle, performed a hover test flying up to three feet and then translat ... more | .. |
 Moon Express Gets Thumbs-Up from NASA for Developing New Lunar Landing Technology Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, announced that it has successfully demonstrated a critical component of its lunar landing technology to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration ... more | .. |
 A Planet Made of Diamond A once-massive star that's been transformed into a small planet made of diamond: that's what astronomers think they've found in our Milky Way. The discovery has been made by an international r ... more | .. |
 Neil Armstrong urges return to the Moon Neil Armstrong has urged a return to the Moon to train for missions to Mars as the United States contemplates the future of its space programme following the end of the shuttle era. ... 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 | .. |
 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 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 | .. |
 Interstellar Crashes Could Toss Out Habitable Planets 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 Bo ... more |
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