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China paces to the MoonMoscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 28, 2012 China announces its next manned spaceflight to be launched next summer. What are the implications for 'senior space powers'? On February 21, Chinese space officials announced that the next manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft will be launched between June and August this year. Its main task will be to dock with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, launched in September 2011. The docking mission will be performed manually, so that the docking technology can be checked. Then, the crew will board the st ... read more |
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  Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it became brighter and brighter, until, by April 1843, it was ... more | .. |
  Five Solar Eruptions in 2 Days - CME On the Way From February 23 through February 24 our sun produced an astonishing five solar eruptions, launched from the top, bottom, left and right sides of the solar disk. Four of those eruptions came in just ... more | .. |
  Astrophysicists from Clemson and Europe unmask a black hole A study of X-rays emitted a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away has unmasked a stellar mass black hole in Andromeda, a spiral galaxy about 2.6 million light-years from Earth. Two Clemson U ... more | .. |
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  New Research Points to Erosional Origin of Linear Dunes Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn's moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been formed by deposits of windblown sand. It has been speculated for some time that some linear dunes ma ... more | .. |
 Rhea Before Titan Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons. Lit terrain seen here is on the leadin ... more | .. |
 Black Hole Came From A Shredded Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests ... more | .. |
 Pulsars: The Universe's Gift to Physics Pulsars, superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe. Research on these extreme and exotic objects already has produced two Nobel Prizes. Pulsar ... more |
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
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  A Planetary Exo-splosion Mankind's knowledge of planets, limited for most of human history to our own Earth and its solar system neighbors, has exploded in the last 20 years with the discovery of hundreds of exo-planets in the cosmos, a search with the ultimate goal of finding an Earthly twin that could harbor some form of life. ... more | .. |
  The Fireballs of February In the middle of the night on February 13th, something disturbed the animal population of rural Portal, Georgia. Cows started mooing anxiously and local dogs howled at the sky. The cause of the comm ... more | .. |
 Earth siblings can be different! The study of the photospheric stellar abundances of the planet-host stars is the key to understanding how protoplanets form, as well as which protoplanetary clouds evolve planets and which do not. ... more | .. |
 Extending the Habitable Zone for Red Dwarf Stars Stars known as red dwarfs might have larger habitable zones friendly to 'life as we know it' than once thought, researchers say. Red dwarfs, also known as M stars, are dim compared to stars li ... more |
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 Fastest wind from stellar mass black hole discovered The fastest wind ever discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole has been observed by a team of astronomers that includes a University of Michigan doctoral student. Using N ... more | .. |
 UNH scientists launch NASA rocket into Aurora With the full sky shimmering in green aurora, Saturday night (Feb. 18, 2012) a team of scientists, including space physicist Marc Lessard and graduate students from the University of New Hampshire's ... more | .. |
 Rare Earth element found far, far away Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium - byproducts of the Big Bang. Some 300 million years later, the very first stars emerged, creating ... more | .. |
 THEMIS Celebrates Five Years of Watching Aurora and Space Weather People still talk about the launch. It was the first - and so far, only - time NASA has launched five satellites at one time. Carefully balanced inside a Delta II rocket, the five THEMIS (short for ... 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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 The Many Moods of Titan A set of recent papers, many of which draw on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveal new details in the emerging picture of how Saturn's moon Titan shifts with the seasons and even throughout t ... more | .. |
  Paving the way to Canada's next big industry We are on the cusp of a new information revolution - a quantum leap in technology - and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo is leading the way. With the wor ... more | .. |
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 | .. |
 SD-built camera spots tiny shifts on moon The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found evidence that areas of the moon's surface stretched some within the past 50 million years, creating tiny valleys. The discovery was ... more |
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 Searching for life in the depths of Enceladus Is there life under the icy crust of Enceladus? The Cassini spacecraft has confirmed the existence of active ice-spewing fissures on the surface of Enceladus. Giant jets of water ice are shot into s ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet 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. ... more |
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One billion Africans being harmed by cooking pollution
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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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Rules patchwork 'threatens cloud computing growth' A global patchwork of conflicting laws and regulations could hobble the growth of the cloud computing market, a study released Wednesday said. ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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