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Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System EdgePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 06, 2011 NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory. In it, the wind of charged particles streaming out from our sun has calmed, our solar system's magnetic field has piled up, and higher-energy particles from inside our solar system appear to be leaking out into interstellar space. "Voyager tells us now that we're in a stagnation region in t ... read more |
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  Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet c ... more | .. |
 The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a new online database of habitable worlds Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and ... more | .. |
  Discovery of Fastest-Rotating Massive Star Ever Recorded An international team of scientists has found the fastest-rotating massive star ever recorded. The star spins around its axis at the speed of 600 kilometers per second at the equator, a rotational v ... more | .. |
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  Two Black Holes Weigh In at 10 Billions Suns A team of astronomers including Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy of The University of Texas at Austin have discovered the most massive black holes to date - two monsters weighing as ... more | .. |
 New Planet Kepler-21b discovery a partnership of both space and ground-based observations The NASA Kepler Mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way Galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where l ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Find Goldilocks Planet and Others This morning NASA announced the discovery of the first planet located in the "habitable zone" around a Sun-like star - the "just-right" orbit that's not too hot, nor too cold for water to exist in l ... more | .. |
 Strange New Type of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Spac ... more |
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Kremlin cautions 'lots of work' ahead before Ukraine peace deal
Eutelsat strikes global satellite internet deal with UK govt
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  Total Eclipse of the Moon Waking up before sunrise can be tough to do, especially on a weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 10th, you might be glad you did. A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of wes ... more | .. |
 Team of Astronomer's Finds 18 New Planets Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ... more | .. |
 NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. ... more | .. |
 Earth-like planets feature in new survey Tired of life on Earth? There may be other options, according to a catalog released on Monday of planets and moons that could have the right conditions to support life, planetary scientists said. ... more |
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  Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 140-second firing of its onboard rocket motors on Thursday, Nov. 24. The rocket burn was performed to keep the venerable comet hunter's options open for yet ... more | .. |
 Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and ma ... more | .. |
 Stars Have Found a New Way to Die Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief and intense flashes of gamma-ray radiation that can occur randomly from any direction of the sky. They are so powerful that a single such event can be as luminous a ... more | .. |
  Unique geologic insights from "non-unique" gravity and magnetic interpretation The December GSA TODAY science article, "Unique geologic insights from "non-unique" gravity and magnetic interpretation," is now online. The article is open-access. In many fields of applied s ... more |
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Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn
China starts construction of Tibet mega-dam
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 The next generation of superstars to stir up our galaxy Three astronomers at the University of Toronto have found the most numerous batch of young, supermassive stars yet observed in our galaxy: hundreds of thousands of stars, including several hundreds ... more | .. |
  Supercomputers Take a Cue From Microwave Ovens As sophisticated as modern climate models are, one critical component continues to elude their precision-clouds. Simulating these fluffy puffs of water vapor is so computationally complex that even ... more | .. |
  Could Natural Nuclear Reactors Have Boosted Life on This and Other Planets While modern-day humans use the most advanced engineering to build nuclear reactors, Nature sometimes makes them by accident. Evidence for a cluster of natural nuclear reactors has been found ... more | .. |
 A beast with four tails The Milky Way galaxy continues to devour its small neighbouring dwarf galaxies and the evidence is spread out across the sky. A team of astronomers led by Sergey Koposov and Vasily Belokurov of Camb ... more |
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 In the final days astronomers hunt for signal of impending doom An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova. The study, subm ... more | .. |
 Astronomers look to neighboring galaxy for star formation insight An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star creatio ... more | .. |
 Swift Finds a Gamma-Ray Burst With a Dual Personality A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collisi ... more | .. |
 How to decide who keeps the car Alice and Bob have broken up and have moved as far away from each other as possible. But they still have something to sort out: who gets to keep the car. Flipping a coin while talking on the phone t ... more |
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AI helps automate nuclear reactor licensing process at INL
Battery sharing model boosts savings for local energy communities
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 In The Heart Of Cygnus Fermi Reveals A Cosmic-ray Cocoon The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region at visib ... more | .. |
 Programming language can't be copyrighted: EU court A computer programming language cannot be protected by copyright, the adviser to the EU's top court said on Tuesday in an opinion that could affect the competitive IT industry. ... more | .. |
 One Promising Puzzle Piece for Confirming Dark Matter Now Seems Unlikely Fit Like jazz musicians who make up a melody as they go along, scientists often improvise even after an experiment is underway. One recent example of this comes from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. ... more | .. |
 Hubble Finds Stellar Life And Death in Globular Cluster A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf ... more |
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  Cluster reveals Earth bow shock is remarkably thin A new study based on data from ESA's Cluster mission has revealed that the bow shock formed by the solar wind as it encounters Earth's magnetic field is remarkably thin: it measures only 17 kilometr ... more | .. |
 A Tiny Flame Shines Light on Supernovae Explosions Starting from the behavior of small flames in the laboratory, a team of researchers has gained new insights into the titanic forces that drive Type Ia supernova explosions. These stellar explosions ... more | .. |
 Student Developed Software Helps To Detect Near Earth Asteroids An asteroid impact with the earth can really ruin your day: just consider the dinosaurs. Most asteroids, also known as minor planets, orbit the sun beyond the planet Mars and present no danger, but ... more | .. |
 Europe Pushes Forward Large Astroparticle Physics Projects European funding agencies have welcomed the priorities for the future of astroparticle physics defined by the scientific community , and accepted the recommendations included in the newly published ... more |
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