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Why SETI CountsSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 04, 2012 Are we alone in the universe? It's probably the greatest question posed by space exploration. It fascinates scientists and the general public. It's important and deeply compelling. We want to know, and we have ways of finding out. It doesn't cost much to operate a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program. Some space missions cost billions of dollars. Most cost hundreds of millions. The US-based SETI Institute, by contrast, needs only a couple of million dollars a year to perform its ... read more |
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  Dawn deep in the asteroid belt orbiting Vesta Far from Earth, on the opposite side of the sun, deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn is gradually spiraling around the giant protoplanet Vesta. Under the gentle pressure of its uniquely efficient ion pr ... more | .. |
  There's more star-stuff out there but it's not Dark Matter More atomic hydrogen gas - the ultimate fuel for stars - is lurking in today's Universe than we thought, CSIRO astronomer Dr Robert Braun has found. This is the first accurate measurement of this ga ... more | .. |
  Catching solar particles infiltrating Earth's atmosphere On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar particles traveling at nearly the speed of light that reached Earth about 20 minutes after the lig ... more | .. |
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  Tiny Planet-Finding Mirrors Borrow from Webb Telescope Playbook NASA's next flagship mission - the James Webb Space Telescope - will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory ... more | .. |
 In tree rings, Japanese scientists find 8th-century mystery In the late eighth century, Earth was hit by a mystery blast of cosmic rays, according to a Japanese study that found a relic of the powerful event in cedar trees. ... more | .. |
 UT's Josh Emery Uncovers Clues About Asteroid That Will Pass Near Earth The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with th ... more |
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BlackSky expands Gen-3 access to bolster Ukraine-focused intelligence operations
Maxar secures $205 million in multi-year deals to boost space capabilities across MEA
K2 Space validates satellite systems in orbit and fires record-breaking thruster | .. |
 Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin's McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet in a nearby ... more | .. |
 Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state o ... more | .. |
 Stellar Archaeology Traces Milky Way's History Unfortunately, stars don't have birth certificates. So, astronomers have a tough time figuring out their ages. Knowing a star's age is critical for understanding how our Milky Way galaxy built itsel ... more | .. |
  Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent find ... more |
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 Rosetta flyby uncovers the complex history of asteroid Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid (21) Lutetia is revealed by a comprehensive analysis of the data gathered by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft when it flew past this large main-belt asteroid on 1 ... more | .. |
 Venus transit may boost hunt for other worlds Astronomers around the world will be using advanced telescopes to watch Venus cross in front of the Sun on June 5 and 6 in the hopes of finding clues in the hunt for other planets where life may exist. ... more | .. |
  McGill researcher helps NASA open a new window on the universe NASA is making final preparations to launch its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, NuSTAR. The mission, which will use X-ray vision to hunt for buried black holes, ultra-dense neutron stars, and ... more | .. |
 Arctic bacteria help in the search to find life on moon Europa In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteri ... more |
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The long slow death of Norway's wild salmon
Beijing decries 'discriminatory' ban on Chinese purchases of US farmland
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  Oracle aims to dethrone IBM in business hardware Oracle boss Larry Ellison said Wednesday that he is out to dethrone IBM in the realm of business network hardware, including high-end computer servers. ... more | .. |
 Short movies stored in an atomic vapor The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous - grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals ca ... more | .. |
 Ghostly Gamma-ray Beams Blast from Milky Way's Center As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often spit twin jets in opposite directions ... more | .. |
  UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l ... more |
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 NSO To Use Venus Transit To Fine-Tune Search For Other Worlds A century ago, scientists chased transits of Mercury and Venus in an effort to size up our solar system. Next week, they will use the last Venus transit for a century to learn how to size up other s ... more | .. |
 NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin prob ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees A Spiral Within a Spiral NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so that E ... more | .. |
NASA readies 'black hole hunter' mission The US space agency said Wednesday it is preparing to launch next month a sophisticated orbiting telescope that will use high energy X-ray vision to hunt for black holes in the universe. ... more |
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China speeds up renewables building spree: report
French giant EDF will take 12.5 pecent stake in new UK nuclear plant
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  Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon On June 4th, 2012, there's going to be a full Moon. According to Native American folklore it's the Strawberry Moon, so-called because the short season for harvesting strawberries comes during the mo ... more | .. |
NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away. The celestial equivalent of "guess your weig ... more | .. |
  European Gravitational Wave Community Strengthens Its Space Collaboration During the 9th international LISA Symposium, held May 21-25 in Paris, the international Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) community analyzed the new situation after ESA's decision to choose ... more | .. |
 OSIRIS-REx Scientists Measure Yarkovsky Effect Scientists with the University of Arizona-led asteroid sample return mission OSIRIS-REx have measured the orbit of their destination asteroid, 1999 RQ36, with such accuracy they were able to directl ... more |
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 NTU and I2R scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or how about transferring a typical 2-hou ... more | .. |
 Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matter wave. This feat will allow scientists to better study the ph ... more | .. |
 Colliding galaxy cluster unravelled An international team of astronomers has used the International LOFAR Telescope from ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, to study the formation of the galaxy cluster Abell 2256. A ... more | .. |
 Just How Green is Google Google may have a bad track record on privacy practices, but when it comes to green, the internet giant is clean, racking up over $850 million in investments to develop and deploy clean energy and e ... more |
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