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UCSB Scientist Contributes to First Discovery of a Planet With Two 'Suns'Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2011 UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist Avi Shporer is part of the NASA team that has found the first known planet with two "suns," an idea popularized by the 1977 movie "Star Wars." The discovery is published this week in the journal Science. In the iconic scene from "Star Wars," Luke Skywalker gazes into the distance as two suns set on the horizon. This type of planet is called a circumbinary planet, meaning it orbits a binary star system, as opposed to a single star like our sun. Circumbinary pla ... read more |
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 Milky Way's spiral arms are the product of an intergalactic collision course UC Irvine astronomers have shown how the Milky Way galaxy's iconic spiral arms form, according to research published in the journal Nature. A dwarf galaxy named Sagittarius loaded with dark ma ... more | .. |
 Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow and Steady The Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not always need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns a long-held assumption and pain ... more | .. |
 Star Blasts Planet With X-rays A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays 100,000 times more intense than the Earth receives from the sun. New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the E ... more | .. |
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 How single stars lost their companions Not all stars are loners. In our home galaxy, the Milky Way, about half of all stars have a companion and travel through space in a binary system. But explaining why some stars are in double or even ... more | .. |
  Search for Higgs particle narrows down The Higgs boson, the elusive particle underpinning physicists' theory of all matter, is running out of places to hide - "if it exists" - U.S. scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Ariane rocket to hoist Europe-Japan mission to Mercury An unmanned European-Japanese mission to Mercury will be launched by Ariane 5 rocket in July 2014 under a contract announced on Thursday by Arianespace. ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Before OSIRIS-REx Launch Every six years, asteroid 1999 RQ36 nears the Earth - by cosmic standards - and researchers are launching a global observation campaign to learn as much as possible in preparation for the OSIRIS-REx ... more |
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Boeing X37B Spaceplane Prepares for Eighth Orbital Test Mission
Israel military intercepts Huthi missile fired from Yemen; Gaza civil defence says Israel strikes kill 30
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 Neutron Star Blows Away Models for Thermonuclear Explosions Amsterdam astronomers have discovered a neutron star that confounds existing models for thermonuclear explosions in such extreme objects. In the case of the accreting pulsar IGR J17480-2446, it seem ... more | .. |
 UC San Diego's HPWREN aids in recent supernova discovery A recent discovery by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, of a supernova within hours of its explosion was made possibl ... more | .. |
 Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns this long-held assumption and paints ... more | .. |
  Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf that may indicate a storm grander than any seen yet on a planet. Because old brown dwa ... more |
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 Renegade dwarf smashed up our galaxy Our world orbits a sun located on one of the arms of the Milky Way, a galaxy of some 200 billion stars with spiral limbs that whirl around a thin disk. ... more | .. |
Herschel reveals how most stars formed in the Universe Do galaxies form their stars through violent and tumultuous merging events or rather via more steady and gentle processes? Scrutinising thousands of galaxies across the past 11 billion years of cosm ... more | .. |
 Mastering the fine structuring of ultrashort light fields An expedition through the fast-paced microscopic world of atoms reveals electrons that spin at enormous speeds and the gigantic forces that act on them. Monitoring the ultrafast motion of these elec ... more | .. |
  Squeezed laser will bring gravitational waves to the light of day Measuring at the limits of the laws of nature - this is the challenge which researchers repeatedly take up in their search for gravitational waves. The interferometers they use here measure with suc ... more |
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Cosmic dust particles reveal snapshot of Earth's ancient air
Spire to Provide ESA with Satellite Weather Data for European Research
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  The Sky is Falling As UARS Drops In UARS, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, is about to fall from the sky. This is the most exciting event that NASA has been able to stage in years. But, it is actually Mother Nature who is doing th ... more | .. |
 NASA Seeks Undergraduates To Fly Research In Microgravity NASA is offering undergraduate students the opportunity to test an experiment in microgravity as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. The program is accepting proposals for ... more | .. |
 Latest Exoplanet Haul Includes Super Earth At Habitat Zone Edge The HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile is the world's most successful planet finder. The HARPS team, led by Michel Mayor (University of Geneva, Swit ... more | .. |
 Fermi's Latest Gamma-ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of the data ... more |
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  Where does all the gold come from Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's first two months in orbit around Mercury have been released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all of N ... more | .. |
 Falling satellite could scatter debris A decommissioned NASA satellite will re-enter Earth's atmosphere within the next few weeks and may scatter debris across a 500-mile stretch of land. ... more | .. |
  NASA launches twin spacecraft to study Moon's core NASA on Saturday launched a pair of unmanned spacecraft on a journey to study the core of the Moon and hopefully reveal how it formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The twin GRAIL satellites, sho ... more |
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Designing compact drones to safely navigate air ducts
Map Africa project to deliver continentwide geospatial data for 54 nations
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 United Launch Alliance Launches GRAIL Spacecrafts To Moon A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-17B here at 9:08 a.m. EDT ... more | .. |
 New record for measurement of atomic lifetime Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have measured the lifetime of an extremely stable energy level of magnesium atoms with great precision. Magnesium atoms are used in research with ultra-precis ... more | .. |
 Second bid to launch NASA's Moon-bound spacecraft NASA will try again Saturday to launch a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will use gravity tools to map the Moon's inner core for the first time, after high winds delayed a first attempt. ... more | .. |
  NASA spacecraft carrying CU-Boulder instruments observes new characteristics of solar flares NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy f ... more |
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 Young Stars Take a Turn in the Spotlight ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT) has captured a striking image of the open cluster NGC 2100. This brilliant star cluster is around 15 million years old and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ... more | .. |
 Invisible World Discovered Usually, running five minutes late is a bad thing since you might lose your dinner reservation or miss out on tickets to the latest show. But when a planet runs five minutes late, astronomers get ex ... more | .. |
 NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft NASA is to launch Thursday a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will chase each other around the Moon as they use gravity tools to map its inner core for the first time. Scientists ... more | .. |
 SDO Spots a Late Phase in Solar Flares The sun's surface dances. Giant loops of magnetized solar material burst up, twist, and fall back down. Some erupt, shooting radiation flares and particles out into space. Forced to observe this dan ... more |
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