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Cassini Images Titan and Dione Above SaturnPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 23, 2011 Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north polar hood can be seen on Titan appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon here. See PIA08137 and PIA09739 to learn more about Titan's atmosphere and the north polar hood. See PIA10560 and PIA07638 to learn more about and see a closer view of the wisps on Dione's trailing hemisphere, which ... read more |
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  Mechanism Explains Why Universe Was Born with 3 Dimensions According to Big Bang cosmology, the universe originated in an explosion from an invisibly tiny point. This theory is strongly supported by observation of the cosmic microwave background [2] and the ... more | .. |
  Shadow of the Dark Rift One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy - or perhaps the gal ... more | .. |
  Astronomers discover deep-fried planets Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swel ... more | .. |
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 Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered Hunting for habitable worlds, NASA's Kepler space telescope has unveiled two new planets, some 950 light-years away, that are the smallest yet detected, and the closest in size to Earth. In a paper ... more | .. |
 Closest Type Ia Supernova in Decades Solves Cosmic Mystery Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia's) are the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar "standard candles" astronomers use to measure cosmic growth, a technique that in 1998 led to the discovery of dark ... more | .. |
  "Space ball" drops on Namibia A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency. ... more | .. |
 NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more |
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  Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy s ... more | .. |
Exo planets that survived red giant stage found Astronomers have discovered two Earth-sized planets that survived getting caught in the red-giant expansion of their host star. Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astro ... more | .. |
 Strangely slow pulsar discovered nestled in young supernova remnant Astronomers have discovered a very slowly rotating X-ray pulsar still embedded in the remnant of the supernova that created it. This unusual object was detected on the outskirts of the Small Magella ... more | .. |
 Young star rebels against its parent cloud Despite the celestial colours of this picture, there is nothing peaceful about star forming region Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. A devilish young star, named S106 IR, lies in it and ejects material a ... more |
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 The 'supernova of a generation' shows its stuff It was the brightest and closest stellar explosion seen from Earth in 25 years, dazzling professional and backyard astronomers alike. Now, thanks to this rare discovery-which some have called the "s ... more | .. |
 New Findings About the Supernova of a Generation An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara, has discovered that a supernova that exploded in August - dubbed the supernova of a generation - was a "white dw ... more | .. |
 Picking large pieces of supernova grit out of meteorites Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor of physics and of earth and planetary sciences, both in Arts and Sciences, has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Spac ... more | .. |
 First Earth-sized planets found Astronomers using NASA's Kepler mission have detected two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. This discovery marks a milestone in the hunt for alien worlds, since it brings scientists one s ... 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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 NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more | .. |
 Earth-sized worlds spotted in new advance for exoplanets Astronomers on Tuesday said that for the first time they had spotted two Earth-sized worlds orbiting a Sun-like star, in another big advance in the search for so-called exoplanets. ... more | .. |
 A 50-year quest to isolate the thermoelectric effect is now over: Magnon drag unveiled As electrons move past atoms in a solid, their charge distorts the nearby lattice and can create a wave. Reciprocally, a wave in the lattice affects the electrons motion, in analogy to a wave in the ... more | .. |
  A Look below the Surface At Laguna Negra 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 |
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 Can science predict a hit song Most people remember listening to the official UK top 40 singles chart and watching the countdown on Top of the Pops, but can science work out which songs are more likely to 'make it' in the chart? ... more | .. |
 Quantum cats are hard to see Are there parallel universes? And how will we know? This is one of many fascinations people hold about quantum physics. Researchers from the universities of Calgary and Waterloo in Canada and the Un ... more | .. |
 Supernova Caught in the Act On August 24, 2011, astronomers discovered a nearby Type Ia supernova - the earliest detection ever - with help from a machine-based real-time classification system. The early detection and close pr ... more | .. |
 RXTE Detects Heartbeat of Smallest Black Hole Candidate An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate for the smallest-known black hole using data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The evidence comes from a specific type o ... 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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 New Insight into the centre of the Milky Way It sounds like the start of a bad joke: do you know about the bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Astronomers first recognized almost 80 years ago that the Milky Way Galaxy, around which the ... more | .. |
 Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies are bright star clusters Astronomy and Astrophysics is publishing the results of a detailed investigation of how many 'ultra-compact dwarf galaxies' (UCDs) can be found in nearby galaxy clusters. UCDs were recognized as a p ... more | .. |
 Seeking a Pot of Geological Gold Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth,the most famous of which is the extinction of the dinosaurs. A plethora of research has been conducted to ... more | .. |
 First low-mass star detected in globular cluster Even the most powerful high-tech telescopes are barely able to record remote low-mass and thus faint stars. Together with researchers from Poland and Chile, an astrophysicist from the University of ... more |
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 Tool enables scientists to uncover patterns in vast data sets With support from the National Science Foundation, researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University recently developed a tool that can uncover patterns in large data sets in a way that no ... more | .. |
 Hubble Images Help Pin Down ID of Supernova Companion In August, as amateurs and professionals alike turned their telescopes on the nearest Type Ia supernova discovered in decades, University of California, Berkeley, research astronomer Weidong Li focu ... more | .. |
 Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives This morning, an armada of spacecraft witnessed something that many experts thought impossible. Comet Lovejoy flew through the hot atmosphere of the sun and emerged intact. "It's absolutely as ... more | .. |
 Fear Not A Supernova 2012 Given the incredible amounts of energy in a supernova explosion - as much as the Sun creates during its entire lifetime - another erroneous doomsday theory is that such an explosion could happen in ... more |
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