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A black hole's dinner is fast approachingGarching, Germany (SPX) Dec 16, 2011 During a 20-year programme using ESO telescopes to monitor the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a team of astronomers led by Reinhard Genzel at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany, has discovered a unique new object fast approaching the black hole. Over the last seven years, the speed of this object has nearly doubled, reaching more than 8 million km/h. It is on a very elongated orbit and in mid-2013 it w ... read more |
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 Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes - a steady diet of cold, f ... more | .. |
  Using many instruments to track a comet In 16 years of data observations, the Solar Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO) - a joint European Space Agency and NASA mission - made an unexpected claim for fame: the sighting of new comets at an ala ... more | .. |
 Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud Falling into Black Hole The normally quiet neighborhood around the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is being invaded by a gas cloud that is destined in just a few years to be ripped, shredded and la ... more | .. |
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 Physicists help narrow search for elusive Higgs boson New York University physicists are part of a research team that has narrowed the search for the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle that is a building block of the universe. In an announcement made i ... more | .. |
  Fermi Shows That Tycho's Star Shines in Gamma Rays In early November 1572, observers on Earth witnessed the appearance of a "new star" in the constellation Cassiopeia, an event now recognized as the brightest naked-eye supernova in more than 400 yea ... more | .. |
 A Galaxy Cluster Gets Sloshed Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth. X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... more | .. |
 NASA at work on 'spearfishing' for comets The US space agency is developing a high-tech harpoon that could one day pierce a comet and grab samples for scientists on Earth to study for hints about how the universe formed. ... more |
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Western aid cuts cede ground to China in Southeast Asia: study
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 ATLAS and CMS Experiments Present Higgs Search Status In a seminar held at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data ... more | .. |
  Voyager spacecraft that toured outer planets nearing solar system edge In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time, and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary scienc ... more | .. |
 Experiment to Reveal How Key Elements Were Forged Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor of physics and Earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administ ... more | .. |
  Portraits of Saturn Moons Captured by Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its closest-ever pass over Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Dec. 12, slaloming its way through the Saturn system on its way to tomorrow's close flyby o ... more |
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 NASA Developing Comet Harpoon for Sample Return The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet that is racing through the inner solar system at up to 150,000 miles per hour while spewing chunks of ice, rock and dust may be to avoid the risky b ... more | .. |
 Vampire Star Reveals Its Secrets Astronomers have obtained the best images ever of a star that has lost most of its material to a vampire companion. By combining the light captured by four telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory th ... more | .. |
  Scientist Travel to Laguna Negra for Titan analog mission A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
 Dawn Spirals Down to Lowest Orbit Above Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta at an a ... more |
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ICJ to deliver landmark climate ruling
'No life without water': settler attacks threaten West Bank communities
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 A Tale of Tails An international group of astronomers led by Tom Scott at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia in Granada, Spain, has discovered extraordinary long one-sided gaseous tails in two groups of gala ... more | .. |
 Star Explosion Leaves Behind a Rose About 3,700 years ago, people on Earth would have seen a brand-new bright star in the sky. It slowly dimmed out of sight and was eventually forgotten, until modern astronomers later found its remain ... more | .. |
 Cassini to make closest apporach to Dione In an action-packed day and a half, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its closest swoop over the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and scrutinizing the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... more | .. |
  Peres promotes Israeli moon probe Israeli space enthusiasts are taking part in an international moon-probe competition. President Shimon Peres cut the ribbon Thursday on Space IL, a nonprofit group that will compete for the in ... more |
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  Structural model of the BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter at ESTEC The BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Structural Model arrived at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands on 7 November 2011, having been flown from Japan. ... more | .. |
 New Sub-mm Camera Reveals Dark Side of Universe A new camera that will revolutionize the field of submillimeter astronomy has been unveiled on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. SCUBA-2 is far more sensitive and powerful than pre ... more | .. |
 Optically Faint Radio Sources Reborn AGN A team of researchers, mainly from Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), has detected a rare type of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which have simultaneously characteristics of youn ... more | .. |
 Is Vesta the Smallest Terrestrial Planet NASA's Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta - and may have found a planet. Vesta was discovered over two hundred years ago but, until Dawn, has been seen only a ... more |
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US environment agency axes nearly a quarter of workforce
Japan sees bright future for ultra-thin, flexible solar panels
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 SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candi ... more | .. |
 Tidal Locking Could Render Habitable Planets Inhospitable Tidally-locked planets - planets with one side perpetually facing their star while the other remains shrouded in darkness - tend to be warmer on one side than the other. The presence of an atm ... more | .. |
 Milky Way's Magnetic Fields Mapped with Highest Precision With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at MPA have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map is of a ... more | .. |
  Geminids Meteor Shower: 'Up All Night' With NASA! Put on the hot chocolate...find a warm, toasty location...and join us on the night of Dec. 13-14 for our "Up All Night with NASA" live Web chat about the 2011 Geminid meteor shower! The Gemini ... more |
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 Asteroid Vesta in a Rainbow-Colored Palette This image using color data obtained by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Vesta's southern hemisphere in color, centered on the Rheasilvia formation. Rheasilvia is an impa ... more | .. |
  Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surpr ... more | .. |
  Hubble Racks Up Ten Thousand Science Papers NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has been published. This makes Hubble one of the most prolific astronom ... more | .. |
 Hundreds of NASA's moon rocks missing: audit Researchers have sticky fingers when it comes to NASA's moon rocks and meteorites, and hundreds of samples have gone missing after being loaned out by the US space agency, an audit said Thursday. ... more |
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