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ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary SystemThe narrow dust ring around Fomalhaut. Yellow at top is the ALMA image, and the blue at bottom is Hubble Space Telescope image. The star is at the location of the bright emission at the center of the ring. CREDIT: A.C. Boley (University of Florida, Sagan Fellow), M.J. Payne, E.B. Ford, M. Shabran (University of Florida), S. Corder (North American ALMA Science Center, National Radio Astronomy Observatory), and W. Dent (ALMA, Chile), NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory). span class="NL"> a href="http://www.nrao.edu/" class="highlight">National Radio Astronomy Observatory /a> br> /span> by Staff Writers Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2012 A new observatory still under construction has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system and provided valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must be ... read more |
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 UF-led team uses new observatory to characterize low-mass planets orbiting nearby star Astronomers have found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from Earth. Twice as massive as the sun and 20 times brighter, Fomalhaut i ... more | .. |
  Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched ... more | .. |
  Teamwork: IBEX and TWINS Observe a Solar Storm On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interact ... more | .. |
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 NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission ... more | .. |
  Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star 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. Foma ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  '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
Massive Boulders Ejected During DART Mission Complicate Future Asteroid Deflection Efforts
Peatland restoration shows measurable climate benefits in under a decade | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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