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Young Stars at Home in Ancient ClusterBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2012 Looking like a hoard of gems fit for an emperor's collection, this deep sky object called NGC 6752 is in fact far more worthy of admiration. It is a globular cluster, and at over 10 billion years old is one the most ancient collections of stars known. It has been blazing for well over twice as long as our solar system has existed. NGC 6752 contains a high number of "blue straggler" stars, some of which are visible in this image. These stars display characteristics of stars younger than ... read more |
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 New images capture 'stealth merger' of dwarf galaxies New images of a nearby dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions, the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process of merging with its host. The hos ... more | .. |
 Subaru Telescope Captures Images of the "Stealth Merger" of Dwarf Galaxies An international team of scientists led by David Martinez-Delgado (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) has conducted research that reveals a "stealth merger" of dwarf galaxies, where an in- ... more | .. |
  The Rings of Saturn and Enceladus A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar region of the 504 km-diameter moon are ... more | .. |
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 VLT Takes Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial ... more | .. |
 NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates Ten Years and Forty Thousand X-Ray Flares On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHE ... more | .. |
 AKARI Finds CO Molecules in 10,000,000-Degree Gas A scientific team using the Japanese AKARI infrared space observatory finds carbon monoxide (CO) molecules in the ten million degree gas associated with the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas ... more | .. |
 Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way's Magnetic Fields Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of the magnetic fi ... more |
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
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  Antarctic lake could reveal new life, say scientists Russian scientists said Thursday a probe to a pristine lake deep under the ice of Antarctica could bring revelations on the evolution of the planet Earth and possibly even new life forms. ... more | .. |
  Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressur ... more | .. |
  China publishes high-resolution full moon map China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2. The ma ... more | .. |
  Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a simi ... more |
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 High Planetary Tilt Lowers Odds for Life? If you think summer is too hot or winter unbearably cold, take solace that in the distant past seasons on our planet might have been much harsher. However, the advent of milder seasons did more than ... more | .. |
  Software Enables Efficient Planning of MESSENGER Observations SciBox has proven critical to the success of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. With completion of the design of all primary-mission observations - including more than 70,000 images and millions of s ... more | .. |
 Do black holes help stars form? The centre of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them ... more | .. |
  Project NEOShield: Asteroid defence systems It is not entirely clear when exactly the last major asteroid impact on Earth occurred. But there are plenty of examples of impact craters, such as the Nordlinger Ries in Bavaria. That there will be ... more |
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New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India
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 Mission to Land on a Comet Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet- and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkoand land a probe on it, two firsts. R ... more | .. |
 Asteroids: The New 'It Mission' for Space Exploration The Japanese are heading back into space on a second attempt to collect samples from a nearby asteroid. The asteroid selected, 1999 JU3 is a perfect specimen, said Humberto Campins, a University of ... more | .. |
 IBEX spacecraft measures 'alien' particles from outside solar system Using data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, an international team of researchers has measured neutral "alien" particles entering our solar system from interstellar space ... more | .. |
  New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth, ... more |
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 NASA Spacecraft Reveals New Observations of Interstellar Matter NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system. The new measurements give clues about how and where our solar s ... more | .. |
 Manned Moon Shot Possible by 2020 A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday. "Today sc ... more | .. |
 Elements of ExoPlanets Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it might dwell, scientists now find. Stars are made nearly entirely from hydrogen and h ... more | .. |
 The discovery of deceleration Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometres, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact ... more |
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One billion Africans being harmed by cooking pollution
US reaches civil nuclear cooperation accord with Bahrain
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  SciTechTalk: In the cloud we trust? A report from Apple that 85 million people have signed up for its iCloud service is an indication a significant number of computer users are willing - even happy - to entrust their personal data, from documents to music to last summer's vacation snaps, to other digital hands. ... more | .. |
 Remnant of an Explosion With a Powerful Kick? Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of their explosions. In its more than twelve years of science operations, NASA's Chandra X ... more | .. |
 Blowing Up Stars For his discoveries about the lives and deaths of stars, the exotic physics of black holes and the origin of chemical elements, UA Regents' Professor David Arnett has been honored with the Henry Nor ... more | .. |
  Juno Spacecraft Refines its Path to Jupiter NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver. The maneuver took place on Feb. 1. It is the first of a d ... more |
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 A pocket of star formation NGC 3324 is located in the southern constellation of Carina (The Keel, part of Jason's ship the Argo) roughly 7500 light-years from Earth. It is on the northern outskirts of the chaotic environment ... more | .. |
 Fourth potentially habitable planet is discovered International astronomers said on Thursday they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system with temperatures that could support water and life about 22 light-years from Earth. ... more | .. |
 Scientists help define structure of exoplanets Using models similar to those used in weapons research, scientists may soon know more about exoplanets, those objects beyond the realm of our solar system. In a new study, Lawrence Livermore Nationa ... more | .. |
 Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest "magnified" galaxy yet discovered. This observation provides a u ... more |
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