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April 18, 2012
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Probing hydrogen under extreme conditions
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 18, 2012
How hydrogen--the most abundant element in the cosmos--responds to extremes of pressure and temperature is one of the major challenges in modern physical science. Moreover, knowledge gleaned from experiments using hydrogen as a testing ground on the nature of chemical bonding can fundamentally expand our understanding of matter. New work from Carnegie scientists has enabled researchers to examine hydrogen under pressures never before possible. Their work is published online in Physical Review Lett ... read more

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IRON AND ICE

NASA's Swift Monitors Departing Comet Garradd
An outbound comet that provided a nice show for skywatchers late last year is the target of an ongoing investigation by NASA's Swift satellite. Formally designated C/2009 P1 (Garradd), the unusually ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Astro-H agreement signed with JAXA
An agreement was signed by ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for cooperation on Astro-H, an important mission that will provide a unique opportunity for probing extreme phenom ... more
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MOON DAILY

Russian Space Agency eyes Moon explorations
Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program, will be a priority for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the next 10 years, academician Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute of ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers discover sandstorms in space
Writing in Nature, the team of researchers used new techniques which allowed them to look into the atmospheres of distant, dying stars. The team, lead by Barnaby Norris from the University of Sydney ... more
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EXO LIFE

Water, water everywhere - but is it essential to life?
New research by scientists at the University of Bristol has challenged one of the key beliefs in chemistry: that proteins are dependent on water to survive and function. The team's findings, publish ... more
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EXO LIFE

Impacts Could be Boon for Subterranean Life
An incoming asteroid is trouble whether you're a dinosaur or a Bruce Willis fan. But microbes living deep underground may actually welcome the news, according to a recent study of an ancient impact ... more
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EXO LIFE

H3+: The Molecule that Made the Universe
In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, UA researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe - or at least the hot and f ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Russia fires 136 drones at Ukraine ahead of Trump-NATO head meeting
China says German plane laser claim 'inconsistent with facts'
Inside America's Orbital Defense Shift: Satellites That Track Nuclear Launches
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager One Might Have Farther to Go to Exit the Heliosheath
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is exploring the outer heliosheath past about 111 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. he heliosheath is the region where the outgoing solar wind is slowed by the int ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Cosmic Mirages Confirm Accelerated Cosmic Expansion
Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. A quasar is typically located far away. Gravitational lensing is a phe ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

12-Billion-Year-Old White-Dwarf Stars Only 100 Light-Years Away
A University of Oklahoma assistant professor and colleagues have identified two white dwarf stars considered the oldest and closest known to man. Astronomers identified these 11- to 12-billion-year- ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Time machine will study the early universe
A new scientific instrument, a "time machine" of sorts, built by UCLA astronomers and colleagues, will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the universe, which could never be studied b ... more
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EXO WORLDS

ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System
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 u ... more
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EXO WORLDS

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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Rivers choose their path based on erosion - a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration
Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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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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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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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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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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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IRON AND ICE

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
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EXO LIFE

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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Nanosheet breakthrough enables low temperature heat storage through water trapping
EU climate VP seeks 'fair competition' with China on green energy
Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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