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Space debris in the spotlightBerlin,. Germany (SPX) Feb 15, 2012 Every year, the number of small items of debris in space rises by tens of thousands. This number is currently based on estimates, as it has not been possible to track space debris accurately. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center are developing an optical observation system with a powerful laser, the pulses from which can detect particles only a few centimetres in diameter and allow determination of their orbits. The concept was tested for the first time in January 2012, in collaboration with ... read more |
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  When worlds collide If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functi ... more | .. |
  New Planck maps reveal unseen details across the Milky Way An unambiguous detection of the Galactic Haze - a mysterious, diffuse emission from the central portion of the Milky Way - and the first all-sky map of carbon monoxide, whose emission traces the mol ... more | .. |
 NASA's Chandra finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers using data from NASA's Chand ... more | .. |
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 Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. The views give scientists new treasure ... more | .. |
 Cosmic probe finds strange microwave 'haze' A probe designed to delve into the "Big Bang" that created the cosmos has uncovered an enigmatic fog of microwave radiation in the centre of our galaxy, European astronomers reported Monday. ... 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 | .. |
 Young Stars at Home in Ancient Cluster 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 ye ... more |
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
  The world's strongest and purest neutron beam The world's strongest neutron beam is produced by a scientific instrument at the research neutron source FRM II (Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz) at the Technischen Universitaet Muen ... more | .. |
 Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers Icelandic officials say they are tapping the country's abundance of green energy resources to establish it as a global player in data storage center industry. ... 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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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One billion Africans being harmed by cooking pollution
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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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