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New Planet-weighing Technique FoundWashington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2012 Although there have been about 800 extra-solar planets discovered so far in our galaxy, the precise masses of the majority of them are still unknown, as the most-common planet-finding technique provides only a general idea of an object's mass. Previously, the only way to determine a planet's exact mass was if it transits-has an orbit that periodically eclipses that of its host star. Former Carnegie scientist Mercedes Lopez-Morales has, for the first time, determined the mass of a non-transiting pl ... read more |
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  Space tornadoes power the atmosphere of the Sun The super tornadoes - which are thousands of times larger and more powerful than their earthly counterparts but which have a magnetic skeleton - spin at speeds of more than 6,000 mph at temperatures ... more | .. |
  Milky Way struck 100 million years ago, still rings like a bell An international team of astronomers have discovered evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago, a ... more | .. |
  Titan's tides point to hidden ocean Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface. O ... more | .. |
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  The B612 Foundation Announces The First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission - SEN ... more | .. |
 Innovative technique enables scientists to learn more about elusive exoplanet One of the first planets discovered outside of the Solar System, Tau Bootis b, has eluded numerous attempts to measure the light coming from its atmosphere and so has remained something of a mystery ... more | .. |
 Has the Speediest Pulsar Been Found? Researchers using three different telescopes - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia - may have found the fastest moving pulsar ... more | .. |
 Dramatic change spotted on a faraway planet Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have seen dramatic changes in the upper atmosphere of a faraway planet. Just after a violent flare on its parent star bathed it in intense X-ray ... more |
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PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
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 Reaching, Researching Between Stars From Earth, observers use telescopes to look and learn about the distant luminous spheres. But the telescope often isn't the only instrument used. Karl Gebhardt, professor of astrophysics at The Uni ... more | .. |
  Youris: A Black Hole's Dinner A giant gas cloud is on collision course with the black hole in the centre of our galaxy in 2013. This is a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real ti ... more | .. |
  Caltech scientists find new primitive mineral in meteorite In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite across the state of Chihuahua. More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still s ... more | .. |
 University of Florida astronomer reports rare case of gravitational lensing You could say that the odds of seeing it were astronomical. Yet there it was, 10 billion light-years from Earth, the most massive galaxy cluster ever seen at such a distance - with a gravity f ... more |
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Ex-NASA astronauts aim to launch asteroid tracker A private company made up of former NASA astronauts and US scientists said Thursday it is planning to build and launch its own space telescope to track dangerous asteroids and protect the Earth. ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury MESSENGER will complete its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m. EDT tonight. "Reaching this milestone is yet another testimony to the hard work and dedication of the full ME ... more | .. |
 A Fleeting Flyby Of A Battered World Called Asteroid 21 Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid Lutetia was revealed by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft as it raced past this large, ancient asteroid. This spectacular movie shows a sequence of images snapped ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies re ... more |
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Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
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 New Way of Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres For the first time a clever new technique has allowed astronomers to study the atmosphere of an exoplanet in detail - even though it does not pass in front of its parent star. An international team ... more | .. |
 VLT Takes a Close Look at NGC 6357 ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. The view shows many hot young stars, glowing clouds of gas and ... more | .. |
 Sifting Through a Trillion Electrons Modern research tools like supercomputers, particle colliders, and telescopes are generating so much data, so quickly, many scientists fear that soon they will not be able to keep up with the deluge ... more | .. |
 US NRC Presents Long Term Priorities For US Nuclear Physics Program Nuclear physics is a discovery-driven enterprise aimed at understanding the fundamental nature of visible matter in the universe. For the past hundred years, new knowledge of the nuclear world has a ... more |
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 Multiple Mergers Generate Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoshiaki Taniguchi (Ehime University) has concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Arp 220 (Figure 1) developed from a multiple merger among fo ... more | .. |
  SETI on the SKA It was a vision of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that was never meant to be. In 1971 NASA's Ames Research Center, under the direction of two of SETI's great heavyweights - Hewlett-Pac ... more | .. |
 Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wa ... more | .. |
  Scientists twist light to send data A multi-national team led by USC with researchers hailing from the U.S., China, Pakistan and Israel has developed a system of transmitting data using twisted beams of light at ultra-high speeds - up ... more |
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Ultrasound triggers nuclear decay anomaly hinting at flexible space-time
AI system accelerates aircraft concept design using language models
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 Stars, Jets and Batteries Magnetic instabilities play a crucial role in the emergence of black holes, they regulate the rotation rate of collapsing stars and influence the behavior of cosmic jets. In order to improve underst ... more | .. |
 Illuminating the dark: Ahead with the Euclid mission UK teams working on the mission to study the "dark Universe" are being granted a planned 8.5M pounds by the UK Space Agency to develop scientific instruments. This is following the formal adoption o ... more | .. |
 Dark Universe mission blueprint complete ESA's Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe - dark energy and dark matter - has reached an important milestone that will see it head towards full construction. Selected in Octobe ... more | .. |
 Meteor metal among solar system's oldest U.S. scientists say they've discovered a new primitive mineral in a meteorite that they believe to be among the oldest minerals formed in the solar system. ... more |
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 Is NASA's Voyager about to leave the Solar System? NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, appears to be on the verge of becoming the first spacecraft to leave the solar system and begin a new journey in outer space, experts say. ... more | .. |
  ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt ... more | .. |
 ALMA Reveals Constituent of a Galaxy at 12.4 Billion Light-Years Away An international research team, led by Associate Professor Tohru Nagao from Kyoto University, and including researchers from Japan and Europe, has observed a "submillimeter galaxy" located about 12. ... more | .. |
 In search of dark matter - the Euclid space telescope Dark energy and dark matter are both fascinating for scientists, yet they remain a mystery. The Euclid space telescope, which is supported with funds from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zent ... more |
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