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Extremely little telescope discovers pair of odd planetsAnchorage, AK (SPX) Jun 14, 2012 Even small telescopes can make big discoveries. Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence of two very unusual faraway planets. One planet is a massive, puffed-up oddity that could change ideas of how solar systems evolve. The other orbits a very bright star, and will allow astronomers to make detailed measurements of the atmospheres of these bizarre worlds. Ohio State University doctoral stud ... read more |
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  No evidence for 'knots' in space Theories of the primordial Universe predict the existence of knots in the fabric of space - known as cosmic textures - which could be identified by looking at light from the cosmic microwave backgro ... more | .. |
 Alien Earths Could Form Earlier than Expected Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe. The Big Bang filled space with hydrogen and helium. Chemical elements like silicon a ... more | .. |
 NuSTAR opens out of this world view thanks to Lab technology For astrophysicist Bill Craig and his team, NASA's NuSTAR will open up a whole new world. In fact, NuSTAR will allow them to observe a new class of objects in space, called extreme objects, which ha ... more | .. |
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 Planets can form around different types of stars It had previously been thought that planets were more likely to form around a star if the star had a high content of heavier elements. But new research from the University of Copenhagen, among other ... more | .. |
 Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. However, new ground-based observations, combined with da ... more | .. |
  Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain weird lunar soil behaviour A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. D ... more | .. |
 Successful launch for NASA's 'black hole hunter' telescope A sophisticated orbiting telescope that uses high-energy X-ray vision to hunt for black holes in the universe launched on Wednesday after an aircraft-to-rocket takeoff, NASA said. ... more |
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  New national supercomputer to perform astronomical feats The University of Leicester has been awarded funding to establish a multi-million pound national supercomputer which will make it possible to study space in unprecedented detail and provide new insi ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees a Celestial Swan and Butterfly This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7026, a planetary nebula. Located just beyond the tip of the tail of the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), this butterfly-shaped cloud ... more | .. |
  Astronomer's Refining Method to "Age" the Most Abundant Stars As a part of their "Living with a Red Dwarf" program, Villanova astronomers Scott Engle and Ed Guinan are trying to understand how the most common type of star known live its lives, and what kinds o ... more | .. |
 Nano-engineered synthetic diamond sets a new quantum information record Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials, working in partnership with academics in Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Max-Planck-Institut fur Quanten ... more |
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 Spin structure reveals key to new forms of digital storage A synthetic compound long known to exhibit interesting transition properties may hold the key to new, non-magnetic forms of information storage, say researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center and thei ... more | .. |
 Discovery of the Most Distant Galaxy in the Cosmic Dawn A team of astronomers led by Takatoshi Shibuya (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Dr. Kazuaki Ota (Kyoto Univ ... more | .. |
  Unique microbes found in extreme environment Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landsca ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils ... more |
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  Mapping Volcanic Heat on Io A new study finds that the pattern of heat coming from volcanoes on Io's surface disposes of the generally-accepted model of internal heating. The heat pouring out of Io's hundreds of erupting volca ... more | .. |
 UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon At a measly 2 kilometres in diameter, the smallest of two moons recently discovered orbiting Jupiter may be the giant planet's smallest known satellite. In September of 2010, two previously unknown ... more | .. |
 Breaking the limits of classical physics With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense - the ... more | .. |
 How black holes change gear Black holes are extremely powerful and efficient engines that not only swallow up matter, but also return a lot of energy to the Universe in exchange for the mass they eat. When black holes attract ... more |
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 NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. These faint objects might be wildl ... more | .. |
 Milky Way Cupcakes: A Savior for NASA's Non-manned Missions? Can Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies prevent potentially deep cuts to NASA's space exploration budget? With a possible $300 million cut to planetary scien ... more | .. |
 Physicists close in on a rare particle-decay process In the biggest result of its kind in more than ten years, physicists have made the most sensitive measurements yet in a decades-long hunt for a hypothetical and rare process involving the radioactiv ... more | .. |
 Skeleton key Northwestern University researchers are the first to discover that very different complex networks - ranging from global air traffic to neural networks - share very similar backbones. By stripping e ... more |
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  Origin of particle acceleration in cusps of Earth's magnetosphere uncovered While flying through one of the cusps in Earth's magnetic field, the four spacecraft of ESA's Cluster mission have sampled the population of highly energetic particles that often fill these 'cavitie ... more | .. |
 UNH to Analyze "Bellwether" Solar Event Data from European Satellite When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet ... more | .. |
 Cosmic calculations help better understand stellar chemistry A University of Delaware-led research team reports an advance in the June 1 issue of Science that may help astrophysicists more accurately analyze the vast molecular clouds of gas and dust where sta ... more | .. |
 The delicate balance of star formation in the Carina Nebula A new image from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveals the glowing clouds of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula complex, one of the most massive stellar nurseries in the Milky Way. The image provi ... more |
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 UI's Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights. That's because Jack Scudder, UI professor of physics and astronomy, and his colleag ... more | .. |
 Arizona State University astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy Astronomers at Arizona State University have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light from the recently detected galaxy lef ... more | .. |
  Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors A new video from NASA's Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The animation drapes high-resolution false color images over a 3-D model of the Vesta terrai ... more | .. |
 Quantum computers will be able to simulate particle collisions Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theorists has already figured out at least one talent they may have. According to the theorists, including one from the National Institute of St ... more |
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