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China has no timetable for manned moon landingTianjin, China (XNA) Sep 26, 2012 A senior scientist working on China's lunar orbiter project said Wednesday that China has not yet created a timetable for its manned moon landing program. "Putting a man on the moon involves a very complicated systematic program with many technical challenges to solve, including those related to conducting space walks, docking, staying on the moon and returning," Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist for the lunar orbiter project, said at a conference of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World h ... read more |
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  Ultra-distant galaxy spied amidst cosmic 'Dark Ages' With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Daniel Kelson, have spotted what could be ... more | .. |
  Scientists Shed Light on Riddle of Sun's Explosive Events Four decades of active research and debate by the solar physics community have failed to bring consensus on what drives the sun's powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that can have profound "space ... more | .. |
 Senior scientist discusses China's lunar orbiter challenges Landing and enduring extreme temperatures will be the two biggest challenges facing Chang'e-3, China's third lunar probe, the chief scientist of China's lunar orbiter project told academics on Wedne ... more | .. |
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 NASA sees 'gateway' for space missions NASA has proposed a candidate for its next major mission, a "gateway" spacecraft on the far side of the moon as a staging base for moon and Mars missions. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Chandra Shows Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The est ... more | .. |
  Slow-moving rocks better odds that life crashed to Earth from space Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life on this one, according to new research from Princeton University, the University ... more | .. |
 Life in the extreme Life in extreme environments - hot acids and heavy metals, for example - can apparently make very similar organisms deal with stress in very different ways, according to new research from North Caro ... more |
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Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
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  Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer - a few hundred million years at least. ... more | .. |
 Discovery of an Ancient Celestial City Undergoing Rapid Growth Using the Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Masao Hayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan or NAOJ) ... more | .. |
  NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 Days Tomorrow, Sept. 21, 2012, will mark 100 days since NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched into space from the L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft. Since completing its 30-da ... more | .. |
 Orbiting Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material - made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call pla ... more |
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 Astrochemistry Enters a Bold New Era with ALMA Combining the cutting-edge capabilities of the ALMA telescope with newly-developed laboratory techniques, scientists are opening a completely new era for deciphering the chemistry of the Universe. A ... more | .. |
 Curious About Life: Interview with David Grinspoon The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more | .. |
 Light squeezed on a quantum scale An international team of physicists has pushed the boundaries on ultra-precise measurement by harnessing quantum light waves in a new way. It is one thing to be able to measure spectacularly s ... more | .. |
 We are not alone Space exploration has become a national priority for China - and a Hong Kong scientist appointed to an international body searching for alien life says he is confident many of us will live to see th ... more |
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Consortium plans global shift toward net negative carbon economy
Six satellites launched for ICEYE as constellation expansion gains momentum
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  Dawn Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Two new papers based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn ... more | .. |
 Curious About Life: Interview with David Blake The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more | .. |
 Experiment in University of Florida laboratory corrects prediction in quantum theory An international team of scientists is rewriting a page from the quantum physics rulebook using a University of Florida laboratory once dubbed the coldest spot in the universe. Much of what we ... more | .. |
Protection for Moon, Mars astronauts eyed Rocks on the Moon or Mars could be used to build shelters to possibly protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic radiation, European researchers say. ... more |
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 Berkeley Lab Sensors Enable First Light for the Dark Energy Camera Early in the morning of September 12 the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the Victor Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, recorded its first images of a so ... more | .. |
 NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from ... more | .. |
 University of Granada investigates location of the Island of Stability of Super-Heavy Elements An international research group - with the participation of the University of Granada - has achieved to measure the effects of layers on super-heavy elements, which provides useful data on the nucle ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees NGC 7090 - An actively star-forming galaxy This image portrays a beautiful view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is viewed edge-on from the Earth, meaning we cannot easily see the spiral arms ... more |
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 Largest Magnetic Field Around Massive Star A group of astronomers led by Gregg Wade of the Royal Military College of Canada have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory and the Canada ... more | .. |
 A celestial witch's broom? The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova explosion tha ... more | .. |
 Russia to start research base on the Moon According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Russian cosmonauts have gained great experience working in orbit and have conducted a large number of scientific experiments at the ISS. All ... more | .. |
 Less wear, longer life for memory storage device Probe storage devices read and write data by making nanoscale marks on a surface through physical contact. The technology may one day extend the data density limits of conventional magnetic and opti ... more |
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 European industry develops space safety radar ESA will boost European industrial expertise by developing a new radar as part of the Agency's Space Situational Awareness programme. The radar will test future debris monitoring techniques, helping ... more | .. |
  Meteors Might Add Methane to Exoplanet Atmospheres Meteoroids slamming against the atmospheres of alien worlds could add organic gases that make them look inhabited by life even if they are not, researchers say. In recent years, astronomers have det ... more | .. |
 Spacetime ripples from dying black holes could help reveal how they formed Researchers from Cardiff University have discovered a new property of black holes: their dying tones could reveal the cosmic crash that produced them. Black holes are regions of space where gravity ... more | .. |
 Stars "Missing In Action" Now Counted Almost one in five exploding stars in nearby galaxies is simply not seen, astronomers have determined. For galaxies further out, that fraction doubles. This finding clears the way for these stellar ... more |
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