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Planet-Forming Disk Turns Off Lights, Locks DoorsSan Diego CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2012 That surprise you feel when your favorite store turns off its lights, locks up its doors, and suddenly, for no apparent reason, goes out of business? That's just how astronomers felt recently when a dusty disk of rocky debris around a nearby star abruptly shut down and by all appearances went out of business. The star - designated TYC 8241 2652 and a young analog of our Sun - only a few years ago displayed all of the characteristics of hosting a solar system in the making. Now, it has transformed ... read more |
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 New Instrument Sifts Through Starlight to Reveal New Worlds An advanced telescope imaging system that started taking data last month is the first of its kind capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside of our solar system. The collaborative set of high ... more | .. |
 Study in Nature sheds new light on planet formation A study published in the July 5 edition of the journal Nature is challenging scientists' understanding of planet formation, suggesting that planets might form much faster than previously thought or, ... more | .. |
  Another M-class Flare from Sunspot 1515 Active Region 1515 has now spit out 12 M-class flares since July 3. Early in the morning of July 5, 2012 there was an M6.1 flare. It peaked at 7:44 AM EDT. This caused a moderate - classified as R2 ... more | .. |
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 Rising plasma offers clues to sun storms Doppler measurements that help track storms on Earth may also be useful for understanding storms on the sun. A Rice University astrophysicist is part of an international team that combined Doppler t ... more | .. |
  A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn Summer is a good time to relax, sleep late, enjoy a break from school or work. Waking before sunrise is just not done. This summer is a little different. To find out why, set your alarm for dawn. Ev ... more | .. |
  Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. Although ... more | .. |
  CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson At a seminar held at CERN1 as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in th ... more |
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 Higgs hunters declare victory - as significant as DNA discovery Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics (IOP), has asserted that the discovery of the Higgs is as significant to physics as the discovery of DNA was to biology. He sa ... more | .. |
 A new particle has been discovered - chances are, it is the Higgs boson The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson, which started with one small step about 25 years ago, might finally have reached its goal. This was reported by LHC particle accelerator s ... more | .. |
  The 'Flame' Burns Bright in New WISE Image A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust. The Flame nebula is part of the Orion complex, a turbulent star ... more | .. |
 X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star An international team of scientists has used the world's most powerful X-ray observatories - including ESA's XMM-Newton orbiter - to probe the dusty surroundings of a newborn star and discover some ... more |
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 Hi-C to Investigate Activity in Solar Atmosphere NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is leading an international effort to develop and launch the High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, on a sounding rocket from the White Sand ... more | .. |
 In McNeil's Nebula, a Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots Using combined data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, astronomers have obtained a rare glimpse of the powerful ... more | .. |
 Hubble Sees a Vapor of Stars Relatively few galaxies possess the sweeping, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our home galaxy the Milky Way. In fact, most of the Universe's galaxies look like small, amorphous cl ... more | .. |
  Explained: Near-miss asteroids On May 29, an asteroid the size of a bus came whizzing past Earth at 10 times the speed of a fired bullet. The near-miss asteroid, named 2012 KT42 - or "KT42" for short - streaked across the orbits ... more |
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UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
Beyond male dominance in primates new study redefines gender power roles | .. |
 Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Magnetic Fields on the Sun On July 5, NASA will launch a mission called the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation or SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe are ... more | .. |
  BGI demonstrated genomic data transfer at nearly 10GB per second between US and China BGI has announced that a group of scientists and researchers successfully demonstrated genomic data transfer at a sustained rate of almost 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) over a new link connecting US ... more | .. |
Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest in ... more | .. |
 Tevatron offers Higgs boson data Scientists say data from the U.S. Energy Department's Tevatron collider offer the strongest indication to date for the long-sought Higgs particle. ... 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 | .. |
 New Taiwanese centre to probe origins of universe Taiwan opened a space research control centre Tuesday, as part of an ambitious international project aimed at exploring the origins of the universe. ... more | .. |
 Making the shortest light bursts leads to better understanding of nature An attosecond is a ridiculously brief sliver of time - a scant billionth of a billionth of a second. This may seem too short to have any practical applications, but at the atomic level, where electr ... more | .. |
 Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal" - an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unkno ... 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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  Looking at Density Differently in Microgravity We learn in elementary school about the three phases of matter - solids, liquids, gases - and how they behave. These forms of matter, particularly liquids and gases, have a tendency to act different ... 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 | .. |
 Prediction system to protect astronauts from solar storms With the impending solar maximum expected to bring heightened rates of flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), putting at risk an ever-increasing human presence in space, Oh et al. designed and as ... 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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 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 | .. |
 New Planet-weighing Technique Found 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 prov ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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