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April 12, 2012
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Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
Paris (ESA) Apr 12, 2012
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day. Fomalhaut is a young star, just a few hundred million years old, and twice as massive as the Sun. Its dust belt was discovered in the 1980s by the IRAS satellite, but Herschel's new images of the belt show it in much more detail at far-infrared wavelengths than ever before. Bram Acke, at the University of L ... read more

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Could "advanced" dinosaurs rule other planets
New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs - monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans - may be the life forms that evo ... more
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MOON DAILY

Russia postpones Luna-Glob moon mission
Russia's Luna-Glob moon mission will see its first moon landing in 2015, a year later than originally planned, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. "We ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Study On Extrasolar Planet Orbits Suggests That Solar System Structure Is The Norm
Recently, the HARPS spectrograph and the Kepler satellite made a census of the planetary population around stars like our own, revealing a bounty of planetary systems. A follow-up study lead by memb ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

A Spiral Galaxy in Hydra
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4980, a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Hydra. The shape of NGC 4980 appears slightly deformed, something which is often ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

U.K. skywatchers bemoan light pollution
Light pollution of night skies over Britain meant half the star-gazers who joined a recent star count had trouble seeing even bright stars, organizers said. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

SDO and STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun
One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does - look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Sola ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision
Infrared and X-ray observations from two space telescopes have been combined to create a unique look at violent events within the giant galaxy Centaurus A. The observations strengthen the view that ... more
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Airbus to develop advanced PAZ-2 radar satellites for Spanish defence and civil operations
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Russia fires 136 drones at Ukraine ahead of Trump-NATO head meeting
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EXO WORLDS

When Stellar Metallicity Sparks Planet Formation
In new research, scientists have attempted to determine the precise conditions necessary for planets to form in a star system. Jarrett Johnson and Hui Li of Los Alamos National Laboratory assert tha ... more
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TECH SPACE

Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding?
Over the past few years we have endured idea after idea on how to remove space debris. The list is almost endless. There is the ground-based high energy laser that will zap trash right out of space. ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Spies a Spiral Galaxy Edge-on
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the "UFO Galaxy." NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship. This is why the astrono ... more
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ECLIPSES

Quake rattles western Mexico: USGS
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook western Mexico Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with no immediate casualties reported as workers rushed onto the streets far away in Mexico City. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

South Pole Telescope homes in on dark energy, neutrinos
Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy - the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Black Holes Grow Big by Eating Stars
Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a supermassive black hole at their center weighing millions to billions of suns. But how do those black holes grow so hefty? Some theories suggest they w ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Jupiter helps Halley's Comet give us more spectacular meteor displays
The dramatic appearance of Halley's comet in the night sky has been observed and recorded by astronomers since 240 BC. Now a study shows that the orbital influences of Jupiter on the comet and the d ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

'Ordinary' black hole discovered 12 million light years away
An international team of scientists have discovered an 'ordinary' black hole in the 12 million light year-distant galaxy Centaurus A. This is the first time that a normal-size black hole has been de ... more
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ICEYE satellite data accelerates flood relief in southern Brazil
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SPACE SCOPES

e-MERLIN's deep radio survey of the Hubble Deep Field: first results
A team of astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory have begun the deepest ever high-resolution radio imaging of the region around the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), the images originally captured by the Hu ... more
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MOON DAILY

Russia Plans to Launch Lunar Rovers to Moon after 2020
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 ... more
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IRON AND ICE

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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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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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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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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Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Observing the galaxy distribution when the universe was half its current age
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star
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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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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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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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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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