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US astronaut Neil Armstrong dead at 82Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2012 Famed US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon, has died following complications from cardiovascular surgery, his family said Saturday. He was 82. Armstrong underwent cardiac bypass surgery earlier this month after doctors found blockages in his coronary arteries. Praising Armstrong as a "reluctant American hero," his family said they were heartbroken and in a heartfelt tribute noted that the space pioneer had "served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test ... read more |
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 Neil Armstrong: First man on the moon With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, making him the most lauded American of the Cold War space race. ... more | .. |
 Obama hails 'great American hero' Neil Armstrong A "deeply saddened" President Barack Obama on Saturday hailed late US space pioneer Neil Armstrong as one of the nation's greatest ever heroes, for having inspired a generation to reach for the stars. ... more | .. |
  Supernovae of the same brightness, cut from vastly different cosmic cloth Exploding stars called Type 1a supernova are ideal for measuring cosmic distance because they are bright enough to spot across the Universe and have relatively the same luminosity everywhere. Althou ... more | .. |
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 Halo of neutrinos alters physics of exploding stars Sparse halos of neutrinos within the hearts of exploding stars exert a previously unrecognized influence on the physics of the explosion and may alter which elements can be forged by these violent e ... more | .. |
 The Milky Way now has a twin or two Research presented at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Beijing has found the first group of galaxies that is just like ours, a rare sight in the local Universe. The Milky Way ... more | .. |
  It's Always Sunny in Caltech Lab In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television and radio feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecraft soar high above storms on Earth, they ... more | .. |
 Astronomy project hunts for Chinese helpers The online astronomy project - Galaxy Zoo - is searching for Chinese people to help categorize galaxies in the universe. The Zoo, which has no animals but more than one million galaxies, was set up ... more |
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Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
Sceye secures SoftBank backing to launch HAPS connectivity services in Japan
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  WiggleZ confirms the Big Picture of the Universe We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what scale though, if at all, does this Russia ... more | .. |
 UI instruments aboard twin NASA spacecraft set for launch August 24 On Aug. 24, NASA will launch two identical satellites from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to begin its Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission to study the extremes of space weather and help scientists im ... more | .. |
 Big Bang theory challenged by big chill The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. ... more | .. |
 Imprisoned molecules 'quantum rattle' in their cages Scientists have discovered that a space inside a special type of carbon molecule can be used to imprison other smaller molecules such as hydrogen or water. The nano-metre sized cavity of the hollow ... more |
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 Researchers gear up for NASA radiation belt space mission The University of Colorado Boulder will play a key role in a NASA mission launching this week to study how space weather affects Earth's two giant radiation belts known to be hazardous to satellites ... more | .. |
 Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions to Heat Solar Wind New research led by University of Warwick physicist Dr Kareem Osman has provided significant insight into how the solar wind heats up when it should not. The solar wind rushes outwards from the ragi ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees a Lonely Galactic Island In terms of intergalactic real estate, our solar system has a plum location as part of a big, spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Numerous, less glamorous dwarf galaxies keep the Milky Way company. Many g ... more | .. |
  UCSB researchers demonstrate that 15=3x5 about half of the time Computing prime factors may sound like an elementary math problem, but try it with a large number, say one that contains more than 600 digits, and the task becomes enormously challenging and impossi ... more |
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Study challenges climate change's link to our wild winter jet stream
Successful liftoff delivers Sentinel4 on MTG satellite to enhance atmospheric forecasting
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 Chinese firm to send Spanish rover to moon in 2014 China Great Wall Industry Corporation will send a Spanish rover to the moon in June 2014, according to the Galactic Suite company which heads the "Barcelona Moon Team" that is competing in the Googl ... more | .. |
 Information overload in the era of 'big data' Botany is plagued by the same problem as the rest of science and society: our ability to generate data quickly and cheaply is surpassing our ability to access and analyze it. In this age of big data ... more | .. |
 Curious dark nebula seen as never before Just as Rene Magritte wrote "This is not a pipe" on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula. Th ... more | .. |
  BepiColombo Composite Spacecraft Vibration Testing The BepiColombo Structural and Thermal Model test campaign has passed another milestone with the completion of sine vibration testing at qualification level along all three spacecraft axes. On ... more |
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  First Evidence Discovered of Planet's Destruction by Its Star The first evidence of a planet's destruction by its aging star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The evidence indicates that the missing planet was devoured as the star be ... more | .. |
  Voyager at 35: Break on Through to the Other Side Thirty-five years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune and the longest-o ... more | .. |
 Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix cluster with NASA's ... more | .. |
 Exoplanet hosting stars give further insights on planet formation An international team, led by EXOEarths researchers (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto - CAUP), proposes that metals like Magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low ... more |
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Growing evidence for evolving Dark Energy could inspire a new model of the Universe
UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases
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 NASA is Tracking Electron Beams from the Sun In the quest to understand how the world's weather moves around the globe, scientists have had to tease apart different kinds of atmospheric movement, such as the great jet streams that can move acr ... more | .. |
 Scientists: Think Big Chill, not Big Bang A Big Freeze rather than a Big Bang may be how the universe began, theoretical physicists in Australia say, and they're looking for evidence of it. ... more | .. |
 The Sun's Almost Perfectly Round Shape Baffles Scientists The sun is nearly the roundest object ever measured. If scaled to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narrow diameters would be much less than t ... more | .. |
 Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the ... more |
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 LRO Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere su ... more | .. |
 New Report Presents Research Program for Solar and Space Physics Over the Next Decade A new report from the National Research Council presents a prioritized program of basic and applied research for 2013-2022 that will advance scientific understanding of the sun, sun-Earth connection ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Reassured by Record-breaking Star Formation in Huge Galaxy Cluster Until now, evidence for what astronomers suspect happens at the cores of the largest galaxy clusters has been uncomfortably scarce. Theory predicts that cooling flows of gas should sink toward the c ... more | .. |
 Russia: Wayward rocket no threat to ISS A Russian rocket that failed to put its payload into orbit is not a threat to the International Space Station, Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos said. ... more |
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