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Vesta an asteroid full of surprisesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 19, 2011 Varied impact craters, valleys, canyons and mountains among the highest in the Solar System - the 3D images and videos of the asteroid Vesta created by scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) reveal a most unusual celestial body. The US Dawn spacecraft, carrying a German camera system on board, has been orbiting the asteroid since July 2011. "Vesta has totally surprised us," says Ralf Jaumann, Head of the Planetary Geology Department at the DLR In ... read more |
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  Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars A world with multiple suns is a common trope in science fiction, as in the iconic double sunset in Star Wars. Scientific reality has now caught up, with a report from NASA's Kepler mission of the fi ... more | .. |
 Latest Tumbling Satellite Fails to Warrant Space Intercept An out-of-control satellite is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in the next couple of weeks, but U.S. officials say they have determined that the risk to humans does not warrant a pre-emp ... more | .. |
  Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet With the artistry of a magazine cover shoot, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this portrait of five of Saturn's moons poised along the planet's rings. From left to right are Janus, Pandora, ... more | .. |
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  Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes Using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies. The findings suggest that central black holes ... more | .. |
 US satellite may crash back to Earth Sept 23: NASA A 20-year-old satellite that measured the ozone layer is expected to crash back to Earth late next week, but NASA said Friday it still does not know where it will fall. ... more | .. |
 Israel becomes associate member of CERN - Israel has become an associate member of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), opening the way for full membership in 2013, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday. ... 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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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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 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 | .. |
UCSB Scientist Contributes to First Discovery of a Planet With Two 'Suns' 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 publis ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Quantum behavior with a flash Just as a camera flash illuminates unseen objects hidden in darkness, a sequence of laser pulses can be used to study the elusive quantum behavior of a large "macroscopic" object. This method provid ... 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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Designing compact drones to safely navigate air ducts
Map Africa project to deliver continentwide geospatial data for 54 nations
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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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