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McGill researchers explore big questions about universeMontreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 08, 2012 A research team led by McGill University Physics Prof. Alexander Maloney is among the winners of the New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology International Grant and Essay Competition who will present their winning proposals and essays in a joint conference Oct. 12 and 13 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The competition, led by Donald G. York, the Horace B. Horton Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, will award more than $4 million in research grants to 2 ... read more |
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  AEDC's newest national space testing asset on its way to mission readiness Arnold AFB TN (AFNS) Oct 08, 2012 A project team at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex has successfully completed an initial site acceptance test campaign on Arnold Air Force Base's new, on ... more | .. |
  Comet crystals found in a nearby planetary system Pristine material that matches comets in our own Solar System have been found in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris by ESA's Herschel space observatory. Twelve-million-year-old Be ... more | .. |
 Black hole surprise in ancient star cluster Astronomers have made the unexpected discovery of two black holes inside an ancient cluster of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The research, published in the prestigious journal Nature, de ... more | .. |
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  Asteroid fragments could hint at the origin of the solar system The tiny pieces of rock - at 50-100 micrometers smaller than a human hair - have been captured from asteroid Itokawa by the Japanese mission Hayabusa. They were carefully unpacked by experts at the ... more | .. |
  TMT will take discoveries of stars orbiting the Milky Way's monster black hole to the next level Researchers have discovered a star that whips around the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy in record time, completing an orbit every 11.5 years. The finding, appearing in the journal Scie ... more | .. |
NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in our Galaxy Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2012 NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a ra ... more | .. |
 Gone, With the Wind The case of the missing quasar gas clouds has been solved by a worldwide team of astronomers, and the answer is blowin' in the wind. Astronomers Nurten Filiz Ak and Niel Brandt of the Pennsylvania S ... more |
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China launches international association to boost global access to deep space research
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 Minerals found in dust around distant star Pristine material that matches that of comets in the solar system have been detected in a dust belt around a distant star, European astronomers report. ... more | .. |
 ISS to Dodge Astro-Junk The International Space Station (ISS) will make a maneuver to a new orbit on Thursday to avoid debris from a Japanese satellite, a Russian Flight Control Center representative told RIA Novosti on We ... more | .. |
 First images of Landau levels revealed Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels - the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field - for the first time since they were theoretically conceived of by Nob ... more | .. |
 Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves - distortions in the very fabric of space and time - that ripple outward across the universe at the speed o ... more |
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Space debris delays Japan's satellite experiment The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) due to approaching space debris. ... more | .. |
 Fireworks in the Early Universe Galaxies in the early universe grew fast by rapidly making new stars. Such prodigious star formation episodes, characterized by the intense radiation of the newborn stars, were often accompanied by ... more | .. |
  NMSU celebrates professor for garnering U.S. patent on reduced-gravity technology A Research Rally at New Mexico State University has recently celebrated a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor for receiving a U.S. patent on reduced-gravity technology that can not only t ... more | .. |
Space 'harpoon' could corral space junk A space "harpoon" could grab hold of space debris such as a rogue or redundant satellite and pull it back to Earth, say the British developers of such a system. ... 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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 Peering to the Edge of a Black Hole Using a continent-spanning telescope, an international team of astronomers has peered to the edge of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. For the first time, they have measured the ... more | .. |
 World's First Glimpse of Black Hole Launchpad The current issue of Science Express, the online advance publication of the journal, features a paper by the Event Horizon telescope team - a collaboration which includes Perimeter Associate Faculty ... more | .. |
  Navigating the Seas of Titan Humanity has landed a rover on Mars. Now, say scientists, it's time to land a boat on Titan. This outlandish scenario could become reality, according to engineers presenting their proposals at the E ... more | .. |
  The Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, CME The sun erupted with a wide, Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 27, 2012 at 10:25 p.m. EDT. CMEs are a phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that c ... more |
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 Cause of Supernova SN 1006 Revealed Between 30 April and 1 May of the year 1006 the brightest stellar event ever recorded in history occurred: a supernova, or stellar explosion, that was widely observed by various civilizations from d ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers SolaS Hybrid Cloud Solution Martin has announced the availability of the Lockheed Martin SolaS Hybrid Cloud Solution. SolaS, or Solution as a Service, represents Lockheed Martin's mission-focused approach to secure cloud compu ... more | .. |
  Amateur Astronomer Maps the Surface of Ganymede Technology has radically changed the contributions that amateurs can make to the field of astronomy. Using a readily-available 'hobby' telescope, off-the-shelf camera and computer equipment, plus ex ... more | .. |
 The Magnetic Wakes of Pulsar Planets Pulsars are among the most extreme stars in the universe: dense balls of matter which are heavier than the Sun, yet only a few tens of kilometers in diameter. They rotate rapidly (up to several hund ... more |
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Bezos-backed methane-tracking satellite lost in space
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 Measuring the universe's 'exit door' The point of no return: In astronomy, it's known as a black hole - a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Black holes that can be billions ... more | .. |
 A New Dawn For NASA's Asteroid Explorer On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of its ambitious interplanetary adventure, Dawn can look back with great satisfaction on its spectacular exploration of the giant protoplanet Vesta and forw ... more | .. |
  Buddhist statue, discovered by Nazi expedition, is made of meteorite It sounds like an artifact from an Indiana Jones film; a 1,000 year-old ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a Nazi expedition in 1938 has been analysed by scientists and has been fo ... more | .. |
 Titan Shows Surprising Seasonal Changes Detailed observations of Saturn's moon Titan have now spanned 30 years, covering an entire solar orbit for this distant world. Dr. Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France has an ... more |
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 Troughs Suggest Stunted Planetary Development Of Vesta Enormous troughs that wrap around the giant asteroid Vesta may actually be dropped blocks of terrain bounded by fault lines, suggesting a geologic complexity beyond that of most asteroids. Sin ... more | .. |
 University of Utah Awarded Cosmic Rays Study Contract The University of Utah reports that the W.M. Keck Foundation awarded $1 million to university researchers to study high-energy cosmic rays in Utah's western deserts that are hurtling their way towar ... more | .. |
 Russia, Belarus astronomers discover brightest comet Russia's amateur astronomer Artyom Novichonok and his Belarusian colleague Vitaly Nevsky have discovered a comet which might become the brightest this decade. The new celestial body was spotte ... more | .. |
 Mysterious Case of Asteroid Oljato's Magnetic Disturbance Back in the 1980s, the arrival of asteroid 2201 Oljato inside the orbit of Venus heralded a flurry of magnetic activity. Now, results from ESA's Venus Express spacecraft suggest that Oljato has lost ... more |
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