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Water Vapor Reveals How Stars Form Around Black HoleAmsterdam, Holland (SPX) Oct 20, 2011 An international team led by astronomer Paul van der Werf (Leiden University, The Netherlands) has discovered that a black hole in the young universe is surrounded by a large disk of gas and dust, where stars form rapidly and which is so dense that light can barely escape from it. The team made this unexpected discovery during a successful search for water vapor in a galaxy in the early universe, located at a distance of 12 billion light-years. The discovery was made using the sensitive radi ... read more |
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  Spiral Arms Point to Possible Planets in a Star's Dusty Disk A new image of the disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star is the first to show spiral-arm-like structures. These features may provide clues to the presence of embedded but as-yet-unseen planets ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm In Nearby Solar System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as ... more | .. |
  Lunar Probe to search for water on Moon Russian scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have chosen six venues for landing the Luna-Glob probe. With the launch of the probe in 2014, Russia will resume ... more | .. |
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 Photo Reveals Planet-Size Object as Cool as Earth The photo of a nearby star and its orbiting companion - whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona - will be revealed by Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kevin ... more | .. |
  Formation of Scheila's Triple Dust Tails Explained A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, mainly from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Scienc ... more | .. |
  German satellite to crash to Earth 'at the weekend' A German satellite the size of a car is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, officials said on Wednesday, adding they had little idea where the fragments were likely to land. ... more | .. |
 Quantum Dynamics of Matter Waves reveal exotic Multi-Body Collisions At extremely low temperatures atoms can aggregate into so-called Bose Einstein condensates forming coherent laser-like matter waves. Due to interactions between the atoms fundamental quantum dynamic ... more |
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New MachLab rocket test site launches UK into next phase of space engineering
Ukraine's anti-graft body says new bill restores independence
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 Observing quantum particles in perfect order Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have evolved in the last years into an interdisciplinary tool for many-body solid state and quantum physics. But so far only limited possibilities were available ... more | .. |
  Astrophysics and Extinctions: News About Planet-Threatening Events Space is a violent place. If a star explodes or black holes collide anywhere in our part of the Milky Way, they'd give off colossal blasts of lethal gamma-rays, X-rays and cosmic rays and it's perfe ... more | .. |
 600 Mysteries in the Night Sky NASA's Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray sources detected by their satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Of the 1873 sources found, nearly 600 are complete mysteries. No ... more | .. |
 Dead German satellite to fall on earth An abandoned German satellite was expected to fall on Earth this week, but the exactly time and location remained unknown, according to media reports. The German space agency has offered a landfall ... more |
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  Mercury Planetary Orbiter takes a simulated trip to the innermost planet Thermal-balance testing of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Structural and Thermal Model, which has been under way in ESA's Large Space Simulator since 20 September, has been successfully c ... more | .. |
  Orion's Belt Lights Up Cassini's View of Enceladus NASA's Cassini mission will take advantage of the position of two of the three stars in Orion's belt when the spacecraft flies by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., Oct. 19. As the hot, bright s ... more | .. |
 "Failed Stars" Galore with One Youngster Only Six Times Heftier than Jupiter An international team of astronomers has discovered over two-dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs that reside in two young star clusters. One brown dwarf is a lightweight youngster only about six ti ... more | .. |
 Distant Galaxies Reveal The Clearing of the Cosmic Fog Scientists have used ESO's Very Large Telescope to probe the early Universe at several different times as it was becoming transparent to ultraviolet light. This brief but dramatic phase in cosmic hi ... more |
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Australia's mammal megafauna face long-term decline from extinctions and invasive species
Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
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 Galaxy mergers not the trigger for most black hole feeding frenzies A survey of distant galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope has put another nail in the coffin of the theory that galaxy mergers are the main trigger for turning quiescent supermassive black holes ... more | .. |
 Watching electrons in molecules A research group led by ETH Zurich has now, for the first time, visualized the motion of electrons during a chemical reaction. The new findings in the experiment are of fundamental importance for ph ... more | .. |
 UChicago launches search for distant worlds Since 1995, scientists have discovered approximately 600 planets around other stars, including 50 planets last month alone, and one that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars. Detection of th ... more | .. |
  Hubble survey carries out a dark matter census Cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (or MACS 1206 for short) is one of the first targets in a Hubble survey that will allow astronomers to construct the highly detailed dark matter maps of more galaxy cluster ... more |
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 IBM stock sags on revenue target miss IBM on Monday reported revenue and profit rose in the recently ended quarter but its stock sagged as the US technology stalwart missed marks set by Wall Street analysts. ... more | .. |
UChicago launches search for distant worlds Since 1995, scientists have discovered approximately 600 planets around other stars, including 50 planets last month alone, and one that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars. Detection of th ... more | .. |
 Mercury Planetary Orbiter takes a simulated trip to the innermost planet Thermal-balance testing of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Structural and Thermal Model, which has been under way in ESA's Large Space Simulator since 20 September, has been successfully c ... more | .. |
 Messages from Mercury MESSENGER scientists will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. These findings were present ... more |
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Sri Lanka orders Singapore shipowner to pay US$1 bn over marine disaster
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 The Hazy History of Titan's Air What rocky moon has a nitrogen-rich atmosphere, Earth-like weather patterns and geology, liquid hydrocarbon seas and a relatively good chance to support life? The answer is Titan, the fascinating mo ... more | .. |
 Table salt used to boost digital storage: scientists Scientists in Singapore said Friday they have discovered a process that can expand the data storage capacity of computer hard disks six-fold using a common kitchen ingredient - table salt. ... more | .. |
 G299.2-2.9, a Middle-Aged Supernova Remnant G299.2-2.9 is an intriguing supernova remnant found about 16,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Evidence points to G299.2-2.9 being the remains of a Type Ia supernova, where a white dwarf ... more | .. |
 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 (CIV, 154.9 nm) in the most distant radio galaxy known so ... more |
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 X-ray camera makes A-grade particle detector In the particle identification business, two pieces of information are vital: energy and spatial location. By measuring its energy you can work out the mass of your mystery particle. From its spatia ... more | .. |
 EUCLID space mission selected by ESA The origin of the accelerating expansion of the Universe is one of the most fascinating challenges of the 21st Century cosmology and fundamental physics. Astronomers and physicists are convinced tha ... more | .. |
 Amateur skywatchers help space hazards team For the first time, observations coordinated by ESA's space hazards team have found an asteroid that comes close enough to Earth to pose an impact threat. The space rock was found by amateur astrono ... more | .. |
 NASA's Dawn Science Team Presents Early Science Results Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are sharing with other scientists and the public their early information about the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta. The findings were presented at ... more |
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