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Russia Plans to Launch Lunar Rovers to Moon after 2020
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 09, 2012
Russia plans to send two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there, the country's Academy of Sciences said in its report on Saturday. Under the document, obtained by RIA Novosti, core aims of the Russian scientists are to study polar regions of Moon and gas-dust exosphere of the satellite, make a soil samples and find the most comfortable areas for lunar base deployment. The first phase stipulates Moon explo ... read more

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Russia Wants To Bind Satellite To Apophis Asteroid
Russia plans to send a satellite with a radio beacon to near-Earth asteroid of 99942 Apophis for finding out how big is a threat of its collision with Earth, the country's Academy of Sciences said i ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA Extends Kepler, Spitzer, Planck Missions
NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. - Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's Planck mi ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Russia wants to puts satellite on asteroid
Russian scientists said Saturday they plan on binding a satellite with a radio beacon to an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Russia to explore moon
Russian scientists said Saturday they plan to put two lunar rovers on the moon by 2020 and a landing station after 2022. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Particle collider runs at record energies
The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after a winter break, at higher energies than ever, officials at CERN, the European nuclear research center, said. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet observat ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The dark heart of a cosmic collision
Two of ESA's space observatories have combined to create a multi-wavelength view of violent events taking place within the giant galaxy of Centaurus A. The new observations strengthen the view that ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New isotope measurement could alter history of early solar system
The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according to research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published in Science ... more
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IRON AND ICE

CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth
CODITA has received a EUR 2.5 million grant from the European Research Council to investigate the dust input over the next 5 years. The international team, led by Professor Plane, is made up of 11 s ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Observing the galaxy distribution when the universe was half its current age
At the UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting NAM2012, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) team announced the most accurate measurement yet of the distribution of galaxies between five ... more
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NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star
Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured an infrared image of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, plan ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini makes simultaneous measurements of Saturn's nightside aurora and electric current system
Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the firs ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Milky Way image reveals detail of a billion stars
More than one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in an image captured by an international team of astronomers. Scientists created the colour picture by ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Mapping Galaxy Formation in Dual Mode
A team of astronomers led by David Sobral (Leiden Observatory and Royal Observatory of Edinburgh) has explored the synergies between the Subaru Telescope and the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope ( ... more
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EXO LIFE

In the Beginning ... Was the Beaker?
In the beginning ... but how do you begin? That question has long perplexed scientists in fields from cosmology to anthropology. Fortunately, researchers at the Office of Science's Brookhaven Nation ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler Mission Awarded Mission Extension
NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the agencys Senior Review of its operating missions. The extension provides four a ... more
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EXO WORLDS

A planetary system from the early Universe
A group of European astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consists of th ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New SCUBA-2 camera reveals wild youth of the universe
A team of astronomers from the UK, Canada and the Netherlands have commenced a revolutionary new study of cosmic star-formation history, looking back in time to when the universe was still in its li ... more
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MOON DAILY

Earth's Other Moons
Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter M ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar Eruptions Cause Sunquakes
A study led by UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory has shown for the first time that sunquakes can be produced during eruptions of magnetic field and charged particles, as the immense magnetic st ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Supersonic snowballs in hell how comets interact with the Sun's atmosphere
Since the 1980s astronomers have seen thousands of comets falling towards the Sun, most of them too small to survive a close approach, let alone to re-emerge. Until recently no such objects had been ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun
Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescop ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Discovery of an 'alien earth' imminent?
The first planet that can be considered a true "alien Earth" will probably be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. ... more
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Met Office to Provide Space Weather Warnings for Planet Earth and Forecasts for Exoplanets
The UK Met Office's weather and climate model is being adapted to help understand space weather at Earth and the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. Two teams of scientists presented their ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Comet Wild2: First Evidence of Space Weathering
The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Comet Wild2. A team led by the Univ ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet
NASA's Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds. Recent finds include planets with double suns, massive "super-Earths" and "hot Jupiters," and a miniature solar system. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter
There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars a ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Marks 205 Years Of Humans Watching Vesta
Vesta is spending the 205th anniversary of its discovery by treating Dawn to more spectacular vistas. When Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers first spotted Vesta, he could hardly have imagined that th ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Clocking an accelerating universe: First results from BOSS
Some six billion light years ago, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction of all th ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic
A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the 'unsinkable' ship, taking into account the maths and ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter
Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a paper published in the March 29 issue of the journal ... more
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