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Lost asteroid rediscovered with a little help from ESAParis (ESA) Oct 15, 2012 A potentially hazardous asteroid once found but then lost has been rediscovered and its orbit confirmed by a determined amateur astronomer working with ESA's space hazards programme. The half-kilometre object will not threaten Earth anytime soon. Amateur astronomer Erwin Schwab, from Germany, conducted his asteroid hunt in September during a regular observation slot at ESA's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain, sponsored by the Agency's Space Situational Awareness programme. He was det ... read more |
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  How to Hunt a Space Rock Peter Willis and his team of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., had a problem. Actually, more like they had a solution that needed a problem. Confused? Let's let Pe ... more | .. |
  X-Raying Stellar Winds in a High-Speed Collision Two massive stars racing in orbit around each other have had their colliding stellar winds X-rayed for the first time, thanks to the combined efforts of ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Swift space teles ... more | .. |
 When Galaxies Eat Galaxies They Get Denser Using gravitational "lenses" in space, University of Utah astronomers discovered that the centers of the biggest galaxies are growing denser + evidence of repeated collisions and mergers by massive ... more | .. |
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 X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary The hottest and most massive stars don't live long enough to disperse throughout the galaxy. Instead, they can be found near the clouds of gas and dust where they formed - and where they will explod ... more | .. |
 The Orionid Meteor Shower Usually, waking up before sunrise is a good way to get a head start on the day. On Oct. 21st, waking up early could stop you in your tracks. Blame Halley's Comet. Every year in mid-to-late Oct ... more | .. |
 X-raying colliding stellar winds Ground- and space-based observations, including studies by ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, have provided unique insights into a star system dominated by two Galactic giants. The region und ... more | .. |
  Russian moon mission said funded, ready Russia's proposed moon missions have been fully funded and the first is planned for 2015, a space industry official says. ... more |
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China launches international association to boost global access to deep space research
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  Focus on space debris: Envisat Space debris came into focus last week at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy. Envisat, ESA's largest Earth observation satellite, ended its mission last spring and was a subje ... more | .. |
  Earth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily An increasing number of scientists are studying ways to temporarily reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth to potentially stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. Becau ... more | .. |
  Nearby Super-Earth Likely a Diamond Planet New research led by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. "This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fu ... more | .. |
 First Evidence of Dynamo Generation in an Asteroid About 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a tenuous disk of gas and dust. In the span of merely 10 million years, this soup evolved to form today's massive, complex planets. ... more |
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  Curious About Life: Interview with Michael Meyer 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 | .. |
 Rover designed to drill for moon ice U.S. scientists say they've built a full-size prototype of a solar-powered robot designed to search for potentially rich deposits of water ice on the moon. ... more | .. |
  Bouncing on Titan ESA's Huygens probe bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds after touching down on Saturn's moon, Titan, in January 2005, a new analysis reveals. The findings provide novel insig ... more | .. |
  Extending Einstein's theory beyond light speed University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein's theory holds that nothing could move faster than the ... 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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 A Planetary Nebula Gallery This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are ... more | .. |
 Sweeping X-Ray Imaging Survey Of Dying Stars Is 'Uncharted Territory' The death throes of dying stars are the focus of a sweeping new survey using NASA's Chandra X-ray satellite observatory. More than two dozen astronomers have aligned their research goals to us ... more | .. |
The Secrets Of A Dying Star Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a totally unexpected spiral structure in the material around the old star R Sculptoris. This is the first ti ... more | .. |
A Planetary Nebula Gallery From Chandra This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown her ... more |
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 Getting NASA's SDO into Focus From Sept. 6 to Sept. 29, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) moved into its semi-annual eclipse season, a time when Earth blocks the telescope's view of the sun for a period of time each d ... more | .. |
 Sun Spits Out A Coronal Mass Ejection At 11:24 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2012, the sun unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME). Not to be confused with a solar flare, which is a burst of light and radiation, CMEs are a phenomenon that c ... more | .. |
 Giant black holes lurking in survey data Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. ... more | .. |
 Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like s ... more |
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Bezos-backed methane-tracking satellite lost in space
Blackout at refinery highlights Venezuela's oil industry crisis
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 The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life A dying star is refusing to go quietly into the night, as seen in this combined infrared and ultraviolet view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NAS ... more | .. |
 Einstein's theory pushed past light speed Australian researchers say they've extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light, but caution it only works in the math. ... more | .. |
 Southampton researchers explain how pulsars slow down with age Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a model which explains how the spin of a pulsar slows down as the star gets older. A pulsar is a highly magnetised rotating neutron ... more | .. |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012: Particle control in a quantum world Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways th ... more |
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 An operating system in the cloud A new-cloud based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed by researchers in China. Details of the TransOS system are reported in a forthcoming special issue of the Internationa ... more | .. |
 Making computer data storage cheaper and easier Businesses and consumers may soon have a simple, cheaper way to store large amounts of digital data. Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed technology aimed at making an op ... more | .. |
 Candels Team Discovers Dusty Galaxies At Ancient Epoch With Hubble Space Telescope Dust is an annoyance in everyday life, but an important building block of stars and planets. As such, astronomers need to understand how cosmic dust forms over time - it's an integral step in figuri ... more | .. |
 Curious About Life: Interview with Pan Conrad 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 |
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