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Climatic effects of a solar minimumMunich, Germany (SPX) May 08, 2012 An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in collaboration with Swedish and Dutch colleagues provide evidence for a direct solar-climate linkage on centennial timescales. Using the most modern methodological approach, they analysed sediments from Lake Meerfelder Maar, a maar lake in the Eifel/Germany, to determin ... read more |
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  Looking for Earths by looking for Jupiters In the search for Earth-like planets, it is helpful to look for clues and patterns that can help scientist narrow down the types of systems where potentially habitable planets are likely to be disco ... more | .. |
 Some giant planets in other systems most likely to be alone Hot Jupiter-type planets are most likely to be alone in their systems, according to research by a University of Florida astronomer and others. "Hot Jupiters" are giant planets beyond our solar ... more | .. |
  First light: NIST researchers develop new way to generate superluminal pulses Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"-in some sense they travel faster than the speed ... more | .. |
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 Four white dwarf stars caught in the act of consuming 'earth-like' exoplanets University of Warwick astrophysicists have pinpointed four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once bore striking similarities to the composition of the Earth. ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER's Cameras Capture 100,000th Image from Mercury Orbit This week, MESSENGER's Mercury Dual Imaging System delivered the 100,000th image of Mercury since the spacecraft entered into orbit around the planet on March 18, 2011. The instrument - one of ... more | .. |
  Dawn Completes 800 Orbits Of Vesta Dawn is wrapping up a spectacularly rewarding phase of its mission of exploration. Since descending to its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO) in December, the stalwart probe has circled Vesta about 8 ... more | .. |
  Perigee "Super Moon" On May 5-6 The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night with beams of moonlight stealing through drapes. If a moonbeam wakes ... 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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  Catch a Glimpse of Halley's Comet Debris - Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Each spring as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley), the cosmic bits burn up in our atmosphere and result in the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower. This year the peak ... more | .. |
 Sifting through dust near Orion's Belt Dust may sound boring and uninteresting - the surface grime that hides the beauty of an object. But this new image of Messier 78 and surroundings, which reveals the submillimetre-wavelength radiatio ... more | .. |
  Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione during close flybys on May 2, 2012, capturing these raw images. The flybys were the last close encounters of these i ... more | .. |
 Black hole caught red-handed in stellar homicide Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Supermassive black holes, weighing millions to billions times more than ... more |
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  Thanks for the memory: More room for data in 'phase-change' material A team led by Johns Hopkins engineers has discovered some previously unknown properties of a common memory material, paving the way for development of new forms of memory drives, movie discs and com ... more | .. |
  Atomic-scale visualization of electron pairing in iron superconductors By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Corne ... more | .. |
  Hubble Images Searchlight Beams from a Preplanetary Nebula The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into what happens to stars like our sun at the ends of their lives. One stage that stars pass through as they run out of ... more | .. |
 Old Star, New Trick The Big Bang produced lots of hydrogen and helium and a smidgen of lithium. All heavier elements found on the periodic table have been produced by stars over the last 13.7 billion years. Astronomers ... 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
Europe launches first geostationary atmospheric sounder to boost extreme weather forecasts | .. |
 ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter ESA has awarded the contract to build its next-generation Sun explorer to Astrium UK. Solar Orbiter will investigate how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the extended atmosphere of the ... more | .. |
 NASA's Chandra Sees Remarkable Outburst From Old Black Hole An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using NAS ... more | .. |
 California meteor intrigues scientists Fragments of a meteorite that landed in California last week are much more interesting because of their composition than first thought, scientists say. ... more | .. |
 NMSU's Apache Point Observatory team observes record 103,000 spectra in March When the sun goes down, researchers and staff at New Mexico State University's Apache Point Observatory go into high gear, mapping the universe one pinpoint at a time for the Sloan Digital Sky Surve ... more |
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 Mining Asteroids - A New Industry This past Wednesday a new company, Planetary Resources (PRI), announced it is serious about searching the cosmos for the first mineable asteroid. Within two years PRI hopes to identify that historic ... more | .. |
 'Faster-ticking clock' indicates early solar system may have evolved faster than we think Our solar system is four and a half billion years old, but its formation may have occurred over a shorter period of time than we previously thought, says an international team of researchers from th ... more | .. |
 Old star, new trick The Big Bang produced lots of hydrogen and helium and a smidgen of lithium. All heavier elements found on the periodic table have been produced by stars over the last 13.7 billion years. Astronomers ... more | .. |
  Microbes Go Rafting on Floating Volcanic Rocks Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes ... 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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 NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at the pr ... more | .. |
 Dusty Stellar Nurseries from the Dark Side of a Galaxy One of the world's most powerful cameras, SCUBA-2 is producing its first detailed images of our neighbouring galaxies, revealing previously undetected vast pockets of star formation where the next g ... more | .. |
 Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be de ... more | .. |
 A Cluster Within A Cluster The star cluster NGC 6604 is shown in this new image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is often overlooked in favor ... more |
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 Record-Breaking Radio Waves from Ultra-Cool Star Penn State University astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet ... more | .. |
 Meeting Converges On Gemini Observatory Recent And Potential Scientific Impact In mid-July 2012, astronomers from around the world will converge in San Francisco, California, to discuss recent and future science from the Gemini Observatory. From direct imaging of exoplanets, t ... more | .. |
 Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more about the moon's internal structure. ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Find Possible Secret of the Origin of Brown Dwarfs The origin of brown dwarfs is one of the great unsolved mysteries facing astrophysicists today. In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western's Shantanu Basu (at left) and Universit ... more |
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