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Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn RingPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 24, 2012 Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind them. These trails in the rings, which scientists are calling "mini-jets," fill in a missing link in our story of the curious behavior of the F ring. The results will be presented tomorrow at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria. "I think the F ring is Saturn's weirdest ... read more |
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  Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Probably Do Not From Gamma-Ray Bursts The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precise ... more | .. |
  Boom heard over Northern California: report A loud boom similar to the sound of an explosion was heard over much of northern California early Sunday apparently as a result of an ongoing meteor shower, The Los Angeles Times reported. ... more | .. |
 Cassini Finds Titan Lake is Like a Namibia Mudflat A new study analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that the lake, known as Ontario Lacus, behaves most similarly to what we call a salt pan on Earth. A group led by Thomas Corn ... more | .. |
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  MESSENGER Settles into Eight-Hour Orbit Around Mercury, Poised for New Discoveries MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., conducted the second of two maneuvers required to reduce the spacecraft's orbital perio ... more | .. |
 IceCube Neutrino Observatory explores origin of cosmic rays Although cosmic rays were discovered 100 years ago, their origin remains one of the most enduring mysteries in physics. Now, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive detector in Antarctica, is ho ... more | .. |
  Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the sun Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely - the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and ... more | .. |
  Space mining startup set for launch in US A startup evidently devoted to mining asteroids for metals is to make its public debut Tuesday in the US northwest city of Seattle, seeking to redefine the term "natural resources." ... more |
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France says Australia defence ties repaired after submarine row
Trump: U.S. to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, EU to pay bill
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 The 3D Lyrid Meteor Shower This weekend, NASA scientists, amateur astronomers, and an astronaut on board the International Space Station will attempt the first-ever 3D photography of meteors from Earth and space. "The a ... more | .. |
  Raytheon's Space Fence System Detects and Tracks Space Objects Raytheon's Space Fence recently completed a comprehensive Preliminary Design Review (PDR) demonstrating the S-band radar's technical maturity in its ability to detect and track the increasing amount ... more | .. |
  Winners of 19th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Announced America's space agency has crowned its vehicular engineering victors at the close of the 19th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The team from P ... more | .. |
 NASA Mission Wants Amateur Astronomers to Target Asteroids A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and study their characteristics. NEOs are asteroids with orbits that occasionally bring ... more |
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  Raising the prospects for quantum levitation More than half-a-century ago, the Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrik Casimir calculated that two mirrors placed facing each other in a vacuum would attract. The mysterious force arises from the ene ... more | .. |
 1000 Days Of Infrared Wonders For the last 1000 days the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has been operating continuously to probe the universe from its most distant regions to our local solar ... more | .. |
 Dusty Stellar Nurseries From The Dark Side Of A Galaxy A new multi-million pound camera is producing its first detailed pictures of our neighboring galaxies, revealing vast, dusty stellar nurseries where the next generation of stars is being created. "T ... more | .. |
Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precise ... more |
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Ancient zircon data reveals tectonic origin of Earth's first continental crust
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
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 Hubble Sees Messier 70: Tight and Bright In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the compact center of Messier 70, a globular cluster. Quarters are always tight in globular clusters, where the mutu ... more | .. |
  Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets New research suggests that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured rogue planets that once roamed interstellar space. The nomad worlds, which were kicked out of the star systems in which they ... more | .. |
  Finding ET may require giant robotic leap Autonomous, self-replicating robots - exobots - are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn Sta ... more | .. |
  Hubble's panoramic view of a turbulent star-making region Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula. 30 ... more |
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 Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt. ... more | .. |
 Mysterious 'dark matter' even weirder: astronomers Astronomers scanning the Milky Way said on Wednesday they were baffled when they failed to spot something invisible. ... more | .. |
 Probing hydrogen under extreme conditions 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 ex ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Adjusts Orbit for a Closer Look at Mercury The MESSENGER mission successfully completed the first of two maneuvers designed to reduce the spacecraft's orbital period about Mercury. This new trajectory will pave the way for more detailed meas ... more |
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Atomic 6 receives 2M Space Force award to advance next generation solar arrays
ESA and Neuraspace develop autonomous satellite navigation technologies
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 Massive glitch moves magnetar modelling forward The chance discovery with ESA's INTEGRAL observatory, in 2004, of highly energetic X-rays emanating from a young neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, provided scientists with a chal ... more | .. |
 Microsoft-Amazon.com pressed for clean 'cloud' Activists rappelled down a Seattle office building Thursday to get Microsoft and Amazon.com to use clean energy to power datacenters running services based in the Internet "cloud." ... more | .. |
 Greenpeace says cloud computing 'dirty' Environmental group Greenpeace has criticized Apple and Amazon for the inefficient use of energy at their cloud computing service U.S. data centers. ... more | .. |
 Magnetic fields can send particles to infinity Researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) have mathematically shown that particles charged in a magnetic field can escape into infinity without ever stopping. One of the con ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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