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October 28, 2011
EXO LIFE
An Alien Code Close to Home: Seeking ET Beyond the Radio Silence
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2011
Any intelligent extraterrestrial life that exists probably won't announce itself by blowing up the White House, or win over the hearts of children as a lovable alien with a glowing finger. Many scientists simply hope to find evidence of them by scanning the skies for a radio signal from a distant star's alien civilization. But such efforts may also risk overlooking clues of past alien activity right here on Earth. If aliens did leave their mark on Earth by some wild chance, we could search f ... read more

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SOLAR SCIENCE

A Solar Cycle Primer From SDO
Telescopes spotted the first blemish on the Sun in 1611. While the Sun had long been thought - at least in the Western world - to be an unchanging, "perfect" orb, sky-watchers observed black sunspot ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Rosetta reveals the science and mystery of Asteroid Lutetia
On 10 July 2010, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft flew past asteroid (21) Lutetia, one of the largest objects orbiting within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Rosetta's encounter revealed an ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Three New Planets and a Mystery Object Discovered Outside Our Solar System
Three planets - each orbiting its own giant, dying star - have been discovered by an international research team led by a Penn State University astronomer. Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, astronom ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Up close, asteroid seen to be chunk of would-be planet
A rare opportunity to observe an asteroid at close quarters has unveiled a remarkable rock that seems to be a precursor of a planet, astronomers reported on Thursday. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers discover complex organic matter in the universe
In the current issue of the journal Nature, astronomers report that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. The results suggest that complex organic compounds are n ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

STEREO Mission Celebrates Five Incredible Years of Science
On October 25, 2006, a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying two nearly identical spacecraft. Each satellite was one half of a mission entitled Solar TErrestrial RElations Observator ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Says Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten
Comet Elenin is no more. Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice. This trail of piffling particles will remain ... 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
Iran meets European powers amid threats of UN sanctions snapback
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SOLAR SCIENCE

UNH Scientists Land Roles in European and Japanese Space Missions
Scientists and engineers from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC) have been selected to provide instruments for two upcoming satellite missions led by the European Space Age ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Dwarf planet sized up accurately as it blocks light of faint star
Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This event was seen at the end of 2010 by ... more
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EXO LIFE

Most vertebrates descended from ancestor with sixth sense
People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this in ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA in Final Preparations for Nov 8 Asteroid Flyby
NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's o ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Starlight study shows Pluto's chilly twin
Sky-watchers reported on Wednesday that a small planet in deep space that triggered one of the fiercest controversies in modern astronomy appears to be a colder "twin" of Pluto. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

German scientists ready for the hunt on dark energy
The German and Russian partners of the new eROSITA X-ray space observatory have now agreed on how to split the data from the first four years of an all sky survey. This decision was announced ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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
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EXO WORLDS

Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have detected for the first time cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star. The findings suggest that this disk, ... 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
Seismic signatures reveal fragmentation patterns of fireball meteoroids
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MERCURY RISING

Fourth Orbit Adjustment Stretches MESSENGER Orbit around Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its fourth orbit-correction maneuver to increase the period of the spacecraft's orbit around the innermost planet from 11 hours 46 minutes to a precis ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Close Encounters of the Galactic Kind
Astronomers have used a large survey to test a prediction that close encounters between galaxies can trigger the rapid growth of supermassive black holes. Key to this work was Chandra's unique abili ... more
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TECH SPACE

ROSAT re-entered atmosphere over Bay of Bengal
On 23 October 2011 at 03:50 CEST, the German research satellite ROSAT re-entered the atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal; it is not known whether any parts of the satellite reached Earth's surface. ... more
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MERCURY RISING

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
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IRON AND ICE

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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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery
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 ... more
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EXO WORLDS

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
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EXO WORLDS

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
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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
More than 80% of Tuvalu seeks Australian climate visa
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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TECH SPACE

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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EXO WORLDS

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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TECH SPACE

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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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