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NASA Extends Messenger MissionAnnapolis, MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2011 NASA has announced that it will extend the Messenger mission for an additional year of orbital operations at Mercury beyond the planned end of the primary mission on March 17, 2012. The Messenger probe became the first spacecraft to orbit the innermost planet on March 18, 2011. "We are still ironing out the funding details, but we are pleased to be able to support the continued exploration of Mercury," said NASA Messenger Program Scientist Ed Grayzeck, who made the announcement on November 9, 2011 ... read more |
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  LISA Pathfinder takes major step in hunt for gravity waves Sensors destined for ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission in 2014 have far exceeded expectations, paving the way for a mission to detect one of the most elusive forces permeating through space - gravity wa ... more | .. |
  Ancient stars shed light on the prehistory of the Milky Way Some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way - a kind of stellar fossils in the outer reaches of our galaxy, contain abnormally large amounts of heavy elements like gold, platinum and uranium. Wh ... more | .. |
  Why the solar wind is rhombic-shaped Why the temperatures in the solar wind are almost the same in certain directions, and why different energy densities are practically identical, was until now not clear. With a new approach to ... more | .. |
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 Newly found dwarf galaxies could help reveal the nature of dark matter In work that could help advance astronomers' understanding of dark matter, University of Michigan researchers have discovered two additional dwarf galaxies that appear to be satellites of Andromeda, ... more | .. |
  Pristine Gas From The Big Bang Two clumps of primordial gas from the dawn of time have been detected in deep space by astronomers using the 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory. The gas clouds are too diffuse t ... more | .. |
 New Study Shows Very First Stars Not Monstrous The very first stars in our universe were not the behemoths scientists had once thought, according to new simulations performed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Astronomer ... more | .. |
 Astronomers find clouds of primordial gas from the early universe For the first time, astronomers have found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang. The composition of the gas matches theoretical predictions, ... more |
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 Was the Real Discovery of the Expanding Universe Lost in Translation? The greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century may have been credited to the wrong person. But it turns out to have been nobody's fault except for that of the actual original discoverer him ... more | .. |
  Lutetia: a Rare Survivor from the Birth of the Earth New observations indicate that the asteroid Lutetia is a leftover fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Astronomers have combined data from ESA's Rosetta s ... more | .. |
  Voyager 2 Completes Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the spacecraft to make the cha ... more | .. |
 2 Types of Neutron Stars Point to 2 Types of Supernovae Astronomers at the universities of Southampton and Oxford have found evidence that neutron stars, which are produced when massive stars explode as supernovae, actually come in two distinct varieties ... more |
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 30 Doradus: The Growing Tarantula Within The star-forming region, 30 Doradus, is one of the largest located close to the Milky Way and is found in the neighboring galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud. About 2,400 massive stars in the center ... more | .. |
 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather - great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun - some people worr ... more | .. |
  Russia Mars probe may fall to Earth in January: official A Russian probe that was to visit a moon of Mars but is stuck in orbit around the Earth could burn up in the Earth's atmosphere in January, the head of the Russian space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Giant planet ejected from the solar system Just as an expert chess player sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth, according to an article recently published in The Astr ... more |
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Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
ICJ to hand down watershed climate opinion
Japan's Hokkaido sizzles as heat stroke alerts issued | .. |
 Ballmer says "Windows Era" everlasting Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer proclaimed an everlasting "Windows Era" as the software giant's board easily won re-election at an annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more | .. |
 NIST physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance Why there is stuff in the universe-more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter-is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology. A team of researchers working at the Nat ... more | .. |
 Potential New NASA Mission Would Reveal the Hearts of Undead Stars Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos, shining on even though they're technically dead, and occasionally feeding on a neighboring star if it gets too close. They are born wh ... more |
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Discovery of 2 types of neutron stars points to 2 different classes of supernovae Astronomers at the universities of Southampton and Oxford have found evidence that neutron stars, which are produced when massive stars explode as supernovae, actually come in two distinct varieties ... more | .. |
  Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more | .. |
  The Methane Habitable Zone The search for life is largely limited to the search for water - we look for exoplanets at the correct distance from their stars for liquid water to splash and flow freely on their surfaces, we 'fol ... more |
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Framatome opens advanced additive manufacturing hub in France
Framatome to supply nuclear fuel for Barakah plant boosting UAE energy security
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 Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole A team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc - a brightly glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black h ... more | .. |
 Swift Observatory Catches Asteroid Flyby As asteroid 2005 YU55 swept past Earth in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, telescopes aboard NASA's Swift satellite joined professional and amateur astronomers around the globe in monit ... more | .. |
 Giant star explosion casts light on distant galaxies An international team of astronomers including members from the Niels Bohr Institute have used a short but intense light from a distant gamma-ray burst to investigate the composition of matter in ve ... more | .. |
 Oldest Recorded Supernova This image combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. The Chinese witnes ... more |
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Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
 Whitehouse Says No Contact With ET The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no cred ... more | .. |
 Stellar Extremophiles Back in the 1970s, biologists were amazed to discover a form of life they never expected. Tiny microorganisms with ancient DNA were living in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Instead of ... more | .. |
 Studying Biology's Dark Matter Astrobiologists have long been interested in microorganisms that can survive in the harshest environments that Earth has to offer, from deep sea vents to geothermal hot springs. Unfortunately, these ... more |
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