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September 06, 2011
MERCURY RISING
Mercury Planetary Orbiter wraps up for hot work
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 06, 2011
The installation of high-temperature thermal blankets on the Structural and Thermal Model of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter has been completed. The spacecraft has been mounted on its Thermal Test Adapter and transferred to the Large Space Simulator in preparation for thermal-balance testing. The high-temperature thermal blankets were installed first on the +Z (Nadir) side of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). On 8 August, the spacecraft was removed from its ground handling trolley usi ... read more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars
New movies created from years of still images collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provide new details about the stellar birthing process, showing energetic jets of glowing gas ejected from yo ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Discovery Sheds Light on Ecosystem of Young Galaxies
A team of scientists, led by Michael Rauch from the Carnegie Observatories, has discovered a distant galaxy that may help elucidate two fundamental questions of galaxy formation: How galaxies take i ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars
Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars. This sheds new light on how stars like ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Higgs boson may be found by end of year
The hunt for the elusive Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva say, and could be over this year. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Space junk at dangerous 'tipping point': study
Clouds of space junk orbiting the Earth have reached a dangerous "tipping point", threatening to smash satellites and endanger astronauts, US scientists warned in a study this week. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Alien Life More Likely on Dune Planets
Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth, res ... more
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TECH SPACE

NASA Needs Strategic Plan to Manage Orbital Debris Efforts
Although NASA's meteoroid and orbital debris programs have responsibly used their resources, the agency's management structure has not kept pace with increasing hazards posed by abandoned equipment, ... more
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Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
Slingshot unveils TALOS AI to simulate and support strategic space operations
Designing compact drones to safely navigate air ducts
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn has completed the first phase of its exploration of Vesta
Dawn has completed the first phase of its exploration of Vesta with tremendous success, and the peripatetic adventurer is now in powered flight again, on its way to a new location from which to scru ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Chandra Finds Nearest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Japanese Asteroid Mission a Success
A space mission to a nearby asteroid launched in 2005 has yielded some interesting clues about Earth's early formation. Japanese scientists on that mission report in the journal Science that despite ... more
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EXO WORLDS

The diamond planet
A star that changes into a diamond planet? What sounds like science fiction is apparently reality. The discovery was made by an international team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Great Britain, ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The Star That Should Not Exist
A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to track down a star in the Milky Way that many thought was impossible. They discovered that this star is composed almost ent ... more
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EXO LIFE

A Fish that Leaps to Land
One of the world's strangest animals - a unique fish that lives on land and can leap large distances despite having no legs - has a rich and complex social life, a new study has found. The odd ... more
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TECH SPACE

To Clear Digital Waste in Computers Think Green
A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete precious storage space, bog down the system's efficiency and ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

From a flat mirror, designer light
Exploiting a novel technique called phase discontinuity, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centu ... 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
Beijing officials admit 'gaps' in readiness after rain kill dozens
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TIME AND SPACE

Digital quantum simulator realized
Almost two years ago Rainer Blatt's and Christan Roos' research groups from the University of Innsbruck recreated the properties of a particle moving close to speed of light in a quantum system. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

UCSB physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture
A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online. UCSB physi ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Scientists observe smallest atomic displacements ever
An international team of scientists has developed a novel X-ray technique for imaging atomic displacements in materials with unprecedented accuracy. They have applied their technique to determine ho ... more
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TECH SPACE

Record-low error rate for quantum information processing with one qubit
Thanks to advances in experimental design, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing w ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Hubble movies reveal solar-system-sized traffic jams
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 ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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SKY NIGHTLY

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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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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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
Planet expands Pelican satellite fleet with launch of two new spacecraft
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TECH SPACE

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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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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TIME AND SPACE

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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EXO LIFE

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
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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
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TECH SPACE

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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