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NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova MysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2011 A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. New infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, reveal how the first supernova ever recorded occurred and how its shattered remains ultimately spread out to great distances. The findings show that the stellar explosion took place in a hollowed-out cavity, allowing material expelled by ... read more |
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  Strange Hollows Discovered on Mercury NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury. Images taken from orbit reveal thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, rangi ... more | .. |
  PPPL scientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen ga ... more | .. |
  The James Webb Telescope Will See Earth-Like Worlds The James Web Space Telescope has been in the news a lot lately. Often referred to as the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, its existence has been in jeopardy since a House committee voted ... more | .. |
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 Herschel detects abundant water in planet-forming disc ESA's Herschel space observatory has found evidence of water vapour emanating from ice on dust grains in the disc around a young star, revealing a hidden ice reservoir the size of thousands of ocean ... more | .. |
 Diamonds, silver and the quest for single photons Building on earlier work showing how nanowires carved in impurity-laden diamond crystal can efficiently emit individual photons, researchers have developed a scalable manufacturing process to craft ... more | .. |
  Space Waste Transporter: Going Where No Garbage Man has Gone Before With the growing number of incidents of falling space debris in the news, there is a pressing need to find an alternative solution. John D. Arwood, a Native American and owner of Arwood Waste, propo ... more | .. |
  Researchers Explain the Formation of Scheila's Unusual Triple Dust Tails A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, primarily from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sci ... 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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Herschel discovers tip of cosmic iceberg around nearby young star Using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to study one of the closest protoplanetary discs to Earth, astronomers have detected cold water vapour for the first time in such an environment. Located ... more | .. |
 UH Astronomer Finds Planet in the Process of Forming The first direct image of a planet in the process of forming around its star has been captured by University of Hawaii astronomer Adam Kraus. What astronomers are calling LkCa 15 b, looks like ... more | .. |
 Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of Companions NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a picture of a nearby star and its orbiting companion - whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona. "We have discovered a new record-hold ... more | .. |
 Nearby planet-forming disk holds water for thousands of oceans For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planet ... more |
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 Ancient blue stragglers Mysterious "blue stragglers" are old stars that appear younger than they should be: they burn hot and blue. Several theories have attempted to explain why they don't show their age, but, until now, ... more | .. |
 Dark Matter Mystery Deepens Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter holding ... more | .. |
 German satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere A German satellite the size of a car re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Sunday, officials said, adding they did not know yet if any debris had hit the Earth. ... more | .. |
 VISTA finds new globular star clusters and sees right through the Milky Way The dazzling globular cluster called UKS 1 dominates the right-hand side of the first of the new infrared images from ESO's VISTA survey telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. But if you can ... 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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  Latest Cassini Images of Enceladus on View Raw, unprocessed images from the successful Oct. 19 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide new views of the moon and the icy jets that burst from its southern polar re ... more | .. |
 Space weather prediction model improves NOAA's forecast skill NOAA is now using a sophisticated forecast model that substantially improves predictions of space weather impacts on Earth. Better forecasts offer additional protection for people and the technology ... more | .. |
  Seeing through walls Boston MA (SPX) Oct 21, 2011 The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Much as humans a ... more | .. |
 Glowing beacons reveal hidden order in dynamical systems The so-called ergodic theorem formulates a fundamental physical principle relating to the behavior of dynamical systems. Essentially the theorem states that in a multiparticle system each individual ... more |
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 Impurity atoms introduce waves of disorder in exotic electronic material It's a basic technique learned early, maybe even before kindergarten: Pulling things apart - from toy cars to complicated electronic materials - can reveal a lot about how they work. "That's o ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Water Vapor Reveals How Stars Form Around Black Hole 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, w ... more |
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NASA's X-59 moves under its own power
Sri Lanka orders Singapore shipowner to pay US$1 bn over marine disaster
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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