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Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar PlanetParis (ESA) Feb 22, 2012 Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It's smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth. An international team of astronomers led by Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) made the observations of the planet GJ 1214b. "GJ 1214b is like no planet we know of," Berta said. "A huge fraction of its mass is made up of water." The ground-based MEarth Proje ... read more |
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  Plasmas Torn Apart January saw the biggest solar storm since 2005, generating some of the most dazzling northern lights in recent memory. The source of that storm-and others like it-was the sun's magnetic field, ... more | .. |
  Google Algorithm Helps Drive Computational Chemistry With moleculaRnetworks The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized. Aurora Clark, an associate professor of chemistry at Washing ... more | .. |
  Gamma-ray bursts' highest power side unveiled by Fermi telescope Detectable for only a few seconds but possessing enormous energy, gamma-ray bursts are difficult to capture because their energy does not penetrate the Earth's atmosphere. Now, thanks to an orbiting ... more | .. |
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  Star Cluster Surrounds Wayward Black Hole in Cannibal Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers beli ... more | .. |
 NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for unders ... more | .. |
 Globular star clusters: The survivors of a massacre 13 billion years ago Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular clusters are almost as old as the universe i ... more | .. |
 US scientists discover new 'waterworld' planet An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water - literally, US scientists say. ... 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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  Back to the Moon A Modern Redux The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could lead to the establishment of lunar base ... more | .. |
 X-rays illuminate the interior of the Moon Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that ther ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists propose th ... more | .. |
 Scattered Light Could Reveal Alien Atmospheres The light scattered off distant worlds could help reveal details about their atmospheres that no other method could uncover, scientists find. Nearly all the information astronomers have of the atmos ... more |
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 Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago. Dubbed ... more | .. |
 APEX Turns its Eye to Dark Clouds in Taurus A new image from the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, and dense clouds ... more | .. |
 A Sheep in Wolf-Rayet's Clothing It's well known that the universe is changeable: even the stars that appear static and predictable every night are subject to change. This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows planetary ... more | .. |
 The star factory: observing Arp 220 The galaxy Arp 220 is home to several giant star clusters-about 10 million solar masses-that are twice as massive as any comparable star cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy. McMaster University's ... 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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 Astronomers Watch Instant Replay of Powerful Stellar Eruption Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of an instant replay of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, which was initially seen on Earth near ... more | .. |
  Microbial oasis discovered beneath the Atacama Desert Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an 'oasis' of microorganisms. Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology (Spain) and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have f ... more | .. |
 The quest for sugars involved in origin of life Sugars give rise to enormous biochemical interest given the importance and diversity of the functions they carry out: they act as an energy storage system and serve as fuel for a number of biologica ... more | .. |
 Searching for Planets in Clouds of Dust A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600,000 grant for technology development under NASA's Explorer mission program. The mission would send a space telescope high above Earth's surface to wat ... more |
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 Transforming Galaxies Many of the Universe's galaxies are like our own, displaying beautiful spiral arms wrapping around a bright nucleus. Examples in this stunning image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on the ... more | .. |
 Cleaning up Earth's orbit A Swiss satellite tackles space debris The proliferation of debris orbiting the Earth - primarily jettisoned rocket and satellite components - is an increasingly pressing problem for spacecraft, and it can generate huge costs. To combat ... more | .. |
  Sailing on an Extraterrestrial Sea Many of us have sailed the Earth's lakes, bays and rivers. But, imagine sailing on an extraterrestrial sea of liquid methane-ethane a billion miles from Earth. This is the kind of idea that makes sc ... 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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One billion Africans being harmed by cooking pollution
US reaches civil nuclear cooperation accord with Bahrain
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 "Baby Fat" on the Young Sun? Standard models predict that our Sun was much dimmer in its youth, but devising a way to keep the early Earth from freezing over has not been easy for climate modelers. An alternative solution - cur ... more | .. |
 Missing dark matter located Researchers at IPMU and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies. ... more | .. |
 Space debris in the spotlight 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. ... more | .. |
 Swiss aim to launch first space cleaner Swiss scientists announced Wednesday plans to develop a machine that acts almost like a vacuum cleaner to scoop up thousands of abandoned satellite and rocket parts, cleaning up outer space. ... 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 | .. |
 Particle collider to get energy boost European particle physicists say the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will be run at higher energies in 2012 than in previous years ... 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 |
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