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Billions of Habitable Zone Rocky Planets Could be Orbiting Red Dwarf StarsMunich, Germany (SPX) Mar 29, 2012 A new result from ESO's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates that there are tens of billions of such planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and probably about one hundred in the Sun's immediate neighborhood. This is the first direct measurement of the frequency of super-Earths around red dwarfs, which account for 80% of the stars in the Milky Way. This first dire ... read more |
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  Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amaz ... more | .. |
  Happy Birthday Titan! On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope he built himself, observed a small bright dot suspiciously close to the planet Saturn. Huygens correctly surmised that it mi ... more | .. |
 Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus? There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe - just maybe - microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named "Enceladus," NASA's C ... more | .. |
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 Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The close ... more | .. |
  Far-Out Photosynthesis Everyone knows that we as humans literally owe the air we breathe to the greenery around us. As school children we learned that plants (as well as algae and cyanobacteria) perform the all important ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees Glittering Jewels of Messier 9 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to se ... more | .. |
  Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "According to ... more |
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  Astronomers put forward new theory on size of black holes Astronomers have put forward a new theory about why black holes become so hugely massive - claiming some of them have no 'table manners', and tip their 'food' directly into their mouths, eating more ... more | .. |
 Soviet Weather Satellite to Fall to Earth Meteor-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, will on Monday night re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the U.S. Strategic ... more | .. |
  NASA Measures Impact of Huge Solar Flare on Earth's Atmosphere A key NASA instrument that can directly measure the impact of solar events on the Earth's upper atmosphere has weighed in on the huge flare that impacted Earth last week. The flare was conside ... more | .. |
 Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth's Upper Atmosphere A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8th through 10th dumped enough energy in Earth's up ... more |
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 When ions get closer Nowadays, ever smaller and more powerful computer chips are in demand. RUB physicists have discovered a new physical attraction that accelerates this progress. Prof. Dr. Padma Kant Shukla and Dr. Be ... more | .. |
 Space Observations of Mercury Transits Yield Precise Solar Radius A group of scientists from Hawaii, Brazil and California has measured the diameter of the Sun with unprecedented accuracy by using a spacecraft to time the transits of the planet Mercury across the ... more | .. |
 Single molecules in a quantum movie The quantum physics of massive particles has intrigued physicists for more than 80 years, since it predicts that even complex particles can exhibit wave-like behaviour - in conflict with our everyda ... more | .. |
 NASA's Grail MoonKam Returns First Student-Selected Lunar Images One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson Element ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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 Dance like a neutrino: Quantum scheme to simulate neutrino oscillations The behaviour of some of the most elusive particles in the known universe can be simulated using three atoms in a lab, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National Univer ... more | .. |
 Runaway Planets Zoom at a Fraction of Light-Speed Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our Galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a s ... more | .. |
 Invisibility of magnetic fields made reality UAB researchers, in collaboration with an experimental group from the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia, have created a cylinder which hides contents and makes them invisible to magnetic fields. The d ... more | .. |
 Some orbits more popular than others in solar systems Computer simulations have revealed a plausible explanation for a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers: Rather than occupying orbits at regular distances from a star, giant gas planets similar to ... more |
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 Super-Earth unlikely able to transfer life to other planets While scientists believe conditions suitable for life might exist on the so-called "super-Earth" in the Gliese 581 system, it's unlikely to be transferred to other planets within that solar system. ... more | .. |
  Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta's surface and reveal unusual geologic features ... more | .. |
  Mercury's Surprising Core and Landscape Curiosities On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises from the mission has completely altered o ... more | .. |
 Data from MESSENGER spacecraft reveals new insights on planet Mercury Thanks to the MESSENGER spacecraft, and a mission that took more than 10 years to complete, scientists now have a good picture of the solar system's innermost planet. On March 17, MESSENGER (M ... more |
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Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity
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 New NEO Website Tool Now Available Observers, mission planners, and other interested users are invited to use a new website tool to view a list of near-Earth asteroids that are among the most accessible for future robotic or human sp ... more | .. |
 Ecliptic "MoonKAM" Systems Begin Operations in Lunar Orbit Two four-camera color video systems supplied by Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation to NASA's dual-spacecraft Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) project have been turned on and are genera ... more | .. |
 ISS crew takes shelter to avoid passing space junk A piece of an old Russian satellite whizzed by the International Space Station on Saturday, forcing its six-member crew to temporarily take shelter in two Soyuz escape capsules, officials said. ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Provides New Look at Mercury's Landscape, Metallic Core, and Polar Shadows MESSENGER completed its one-year primary mission on March 17. Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft has captured nearly 100,000 images and returned data th ... more |
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 How the alphabet of data processing is growing The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with single electrons, called quantum bits, ... more | .. |
 Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum The human eye is crucial to astronomy. Without the ability to see, the luminous universe of stars, planets and galaxies would be closed to us, unknown forever. Nevertheless, astronomers cannot shake ... more | .. |
 Near-miss asteroid will return next year When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet - but not by much. The 50 m space rock is expected to come closer than many satellites, highlighting the g ... more | .. |
 Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's gra ... more |
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