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Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid huntParis (ESA) May 16, 2012 A partnership with the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency's space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to cause concern. The asteroids - known as 'near-Earth objects', or NEOs, since they cross Earth's orbit - are a particular problem. ... read more |
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  Oslo-physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the Un ... more | .. |
  Solar Eclipse to Sweep North America on Sunday, May 20th People with clear skies across most of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will experience a partial eclipse of the Sun late this Sunday afternoon (May 20, 2012). Only those near the Eastern Seaboard will ... more | .. |
  In search of new 'Earths' beyond our Solar System Light coming from an exoplanet only eight times larger than the Earth was observed with the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. With the advent of new space and Earth-based devices, the st ... more | .. |
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  How massive stars sculpt a cosmic crib ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has captured a new, stunning image of Cygnus X, one of the richest star-forming regions in our cosmic neighbourhood. The image reveals in unprecedented detail the in ... more | .. |
 How Nature Shapes the Birth of Stars Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth enviro ... more | .. |
 The Heliosphere Bow Shock Does Not Exist New results from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reveal that the bow shock, widely accepted by researchers to precede the heliosphere as it plows through tenuous gas and dust from the g ... more | .. |
  Meteorite Discovery Spurs Hunt For More Pieces Meteorite fragments were recently scattered around Sutter's Mill in California, the same region where the first nugget of gold was found that sparked the Gold Rush in 1848. Scientists believe the me ... more |
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London, Paris tighten nuclear bond over US, Russia concerns
Iran says cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog will take 'new form'
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  Hubble observes a dwarf galaxy with a bright nebula The starry mist streaking across this image obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the central part of the dwarf galaxy known as NGC 2366. The most obvious feature in this galaxy is a la ... more | .. |
 Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight Chaotic networks of dust and gas signpost the next generations of massive stars in this stunning new image of the Cygnus-X star-nursery captured by ESA's Herschel space observatory. Cygnus-X i ... more | .. |
 NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper In England it is known as the "Plough," in Germany the "Great Cart," and in Malaysia the "Seven Ploughs." Since humanity first turned its eyes skyward, the seven northern hemisphere stars that compo ... more | .. |
 New Molecules and Star Formation in the Milky Way SOFIA, the "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy", completed its first series of science flights, using the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT). The scientific ... more |
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 Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Ch ... more | .. |
 Dawn reveals complexities of ancient asteroidal world New findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft lay the groundwork for the first geological overview of asteroid (4)Vesta and confirm the existence of not one but two giant impact basins in its southern he ... more | .. |
 You're beautiful, Vesta When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks about science. "Vesta looks like a li ... more | .. |
 Ultra-cool companion helps reveal giant planets An international team of astronomers led by David Pinfield of the University of Hertfordshire has found a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. Described as ultra-cool, it has ... 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 | .. |
 Unseen planet revealed by its gravity More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus ... more | .. |
 Vesta - a planet-like asteroid Even though it doesn't quite qualify as a 'proper' planet, the second most massive asteroid in the Solar System, Vesta - which has a diameter of approximately 530 kilometres - exhibits numerous plan ... more | .. |
 IBEX Reveals a Missing Boundary At the Edge Of the Solar System Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2012 For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun - known as the heliosphere - move ... more | .. |
 Oslo-experiment may explain massive star explosions Ground-breaking research in nuclear physics at the University of Oslo may help astrophysicists understand how the heavier elements in our universe were made. The Big Bang only produced the lightest ... more |
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  Messenger Gains Deputy Principal Investigator Larry Nittler, a staff scientist in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has been named deputy principal investigator of the Messenger mission. Messenge ... more | .. |
 NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's ... more | .. |
 Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than thought A team of researchers led by a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) member based at Southwest Research Institute has discovered evidence that the giant impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta ... more | .. |
 Sunspot Has Produced M-Class Flares, But No CMEs A particularly large and complex sunspot appeared over the left limb of the sun on Saturday, May 5, beginning its two-week trek across the face of the star in conjunction with the sun's rotation. Th ... 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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 VISTA views a vast ball of stars Globular clusters are held together in a tight spherical shape by gravity. In Messier 55, the stars certainly do keep close company: approximately one hundred thousand stars are packed within a sphe ... more | .. |
 Hubble Sees the Eye of the Storm in Galaxy Cluster This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could seem like a quiet patch of sky at first glance. But zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster - one of the largest structures of the ... more | .. |
 Science Nugget: Lightning Signature Could Help Reveal the Solar System's Origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to create a beating pulse between t ... more | .. |
  Massive black holes halt star birth in distant galaxies Astronomers, using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, have shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies may be influenced by the massive bla ... more |
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  Japan's Hitachi looks to future after wobbly year Japanese high-tech firm Hitachi said Thursday its operating profit fell in the year to March due to the earthquake and tsunami disaster at home and Thai floods, but it expected growth this year. ... 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 | .. |
  Is a new form of life really so alien? The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life f ... more | .. |
 Rogue Stars Ejected from the Galaxy are Found in Intergalactic Space It's very difficult to knock a star out of the galaxy. In fact, the main mechanism that astronomers have come up with that can give a star the two-million-plus mile-per-hour kick it takes involves t ... more |
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