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![]() Amherst MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2011 Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team including physicists Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now measuring the flow of solar neutrinos reaching earth more precisely than ever before. The detector probes matter at the most fundamental level and provides a powerful tool for directly observing the sun's composition. Pocar, Cadonati and colleagues report in the current issue of Physical Review Letters that t ... read more |
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![]() Hyperactive Hartley 2 has a split history The latest analysis of data from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft shows that comet 103P/Hartley 2 is hyperactive in terms of the material it spews out, compared to the other comets observed up close to ... more | .. |
![]() The First Detection of Abundant Carbon in the Early Universe A research team of astronomers, mainly from Ehime University and Kyoto University in Japan, has successfully detected a carbon emission line (CIV1549) in the most distant radio galaxy known so far i ... more | .. |
![]() Almahata Sitta Meteorites Could Come From Triple Asteroid Mash-Up Analysis of fragments of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, which landed in Sudan in 2008, has shown that the parent asteroid was probably formed through collisions of three different types of asteroids. ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from Crab Pulsar Iowa State University astrophysicists are part of an international team that unexpectedly discovered very-high-energy gamma rays from the already well-known Crab pulsar star. The team's findin ... more | .. |
![]() Subtly Shaded Map of Moon Reveals Titanium Treasure Troves A map of the Moon combining observations in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths shows a treasure trove of areas rich in Titanium ores. Not only is Titanium a valuable mineral, it is key to helping s ... more | .. |
![]() The Secrets of Asteroid Minerva and its Two Moons Since the discovery of its two moons, the triple asteroid Minerva has been the focus of space and ground-based telescope studies that have attempted to unravel the secrets of this intriguing system. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Developing Instruments For New Solar Orbiter Mission NASA will begin development and testing of two science instruments, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), to be placed on ESA's newly selected Solar Orbiter mission. The spacecraft wi ... more |
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![]() Titanium treasure found on Moon A new map of the Moon has revealed an abundance of titanium ore that is up to 10 times richer than on Earth, a finding that could one day lead to a lunar mining colony, astronomers said on Friday. ... more | .. |
![]() A Race To Space Waste The Space race has managed a significant achievement. In 50 years, humanity has sent tons of waste from Earth to space. "The ocean above" as Victor Hugo called it is a victim of industrial pollution ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. The rocket burn helped refine the spacecraft's ... more | .. |
![]() Piecing together a global colour map of Saturn's largest moon An international team led by the University of Nantes has pieced together images gathered over six years by the Cassini mission to create a global mosaic of the surface of Titan. The global maps and ... more |
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![]() Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected back then. Finding these hidden ... more | .. |
![]() UT Scientist Searches for Moons Around Asteroids Most people know that some planets have moons but would be surprised to know that some asteroids do, too. According to Joshua Emery, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at the Univer ... more | .. |
![]() Astrophysicists spot pulsed radiation from Crab Nebula that wasn't supposed to be there An international collaboration of astrophysicists, including a group from the Department of Physics in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has detected pulsed gamma rays from th ... more | .. |
![]() Most Ancient Supernovas Are Discovered Supernovas - stars in the process of exploding - open a window onto the history of the elements of Earth's periodic table as well as the history of the universe. All of those heavier than oxygen wer ... more |
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![]() University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft A team of researchers led by Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin has used NASA's Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptun ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn at Vesta: Massive mountains, rough surface, and old-young dichotomy in hemispheres NASA's Dawn mission, which has been orbiting Vesta since mid-July, has revealed that the asteroid's southern hemisphere boasts one of the largest mountains in the Solar System. Other results show th ... more | .. |
![]() New research approach opens up exotic quantum states Theoretical physicists of the University of Innsbruck have formulated a new concept to engineer exotic, so-called topological states of matter in quantum mechanical many-body systems. They linked co ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomers reveal supernova factory The discovery proves what astronomers have long believed: that the galaxies which are the universe's most efficient star-factories are also supernova factories. The astronomers used a worldwide netw ... more |
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![]() NASA Invites Students to Name Moon-Bound Spacecraft NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. The naming contest is open to students in kindergarten throug ... more | .. |
![]() Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles ... more | .. |
![]() The Most Distant and Ancient Supernovae in the Young Universe A team of Japanese, Israeli, and U.S. astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to assemble the largest sample ever found of the most distant exploding stars called supernovae, which emitted their light ... more | .. |
![]() Herschel finds first evidence of Earth-like water in a comet A team of astronomers using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory have discovered the first comet containing water that is similar in isotopic composition to that in Earth's oceans. This detection, in th ... more |
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![]() MESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary Conference MESSENGER scientists on Wednesday highlighted the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. The findings were ... more | .. |
![]() First Images from ALMA The detailed views of star-formation in the Antennae Galaxies are the first astronomical test images released to the public from the growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and c ... more | .. |
![]() The 'Pacman Nebula' High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into our galaxy over its lifetime. Unfortunately, these stars are poorly understood because they are of ... more | .. |
![]() ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole A fleet of spacecraft including ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral have shown unprecedented details close to a supermassive black hole. They reveal huge 'bullets' of gas being driven away from the 'gravi ... more |
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![]() UK set to unlock the secrets of the Sun and search for dark energy Two major new space missions with significant UK involvement have just been given the green light. With funding from the UK Space Agency, space scientists and industry partners in the UK are set to ... more | .. |
![]() Draconid Meteor Outburst On October 8th Earth is going to plow through a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, and the result could be an outburst of Draconid meteors. "We're predicting as many as 750 meteors per ... more | .. |
![]() Enceladus Weather Includes Snow Flurries Global and high resolution mapping of Enceladus confirms that the weather forecast for Saturn's unique icy moon is set for ongoing snow flurries. The superfine ice crystals that coat Enceladus's sur ... more | .. |
![]() Extreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles, according to new data from a University of Michigan instrument on board NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The sodium and oxygen ... more |
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