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October 16, 2012
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Armchair astronomers find planet in four-star system
New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 16, 2012
A joint effort of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has led to the first reported case of a planet orbiting twin suns that in turn is orbited by a second distant pair of stars. Aided by volunteers using the Planethunters.org website, a Yale-led international team of astronomers identified and confirmed discovery of the phenomenon, called a circumbinary planet in a four-star system. Only six planets are known to orbit two stars, according to researchers, and none of these are orbited ... read more

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SATURN DAILY

A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years
Today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft celebrates 15 years of uninterrupted drive time, earning it a place among the ultimate interplanetary road warriors. Since launching on Oct. 15, 1997, the spac ... more
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MOON DAILY

University of Tennessee study confirms solar wind as source for moon water
Three years ago University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers helped to discover water on the surface of the moon. Now, they are piecing together the origin of that water: solar wind. A new study ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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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 under scr ... more
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TECH SPACE

ESA deploys first orbital debris test radar in Spain
A new radar designed to test methods for finding orbital debris that can be hazardous to space navigation has been installed in Spain. The radar will be used to develop future debris warning service ... more
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TECH SPACE

Boeing Proposes Gas Clouds to Remove Space Debris
Space debris issues continue to proliferate and concern continues to build. It is not surprising that the big aerospace companies are gearing up to take advantage of any future debris removal contra ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Ultra-Compact Planetary System Is A Touchstone For Understanding New Planet Population
An extraordinarily crowded planetary system is providing critical clues for understanding why most known planetary systems appear different from our own solar system. Using data from NASA's Kepler s ... more
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China launches international association to boost global access to deep space research
Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
Planet expands defense partnerships with key AI surveillance contracts
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EXO WORLDS

Distant planet found circling with 4 stars
Two U.S. citizen scientists have discovered a planet in a system with four different suns, the first known of its type, U.S. and British astronomers say. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Russia to launch lunar mission in 2015
Russia would launch a lunar mission in 2015, a space research association head said Friday. The goal of the unmanned moon landing mission was to prove that the country is able to land on other ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Making a layer cake with atomic precision
In a report published in Nature Physics, a group led Dr Leonid Ponomarenko and Nobel prize-winner Professor Andre Geim has assembled individual atomic layers on top of each other in a desired sequen ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Applied physics as art
In Harvard's Pierce Hall, the surface of a small germanium-coated gold sheet shines vividly in crimson. A centimeter to the right, where the same metallic coating is literally only about 20 atoms th ... more
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EXO LIFE

Early-Earth cells modeled to show how first life forms might have packaged RNA
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of cellular life on Earth four-billion years ago. Using large "macromolecules" ... more
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MOON DAILY

Solar wind particles likely source of water locked inside lunar soils
The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon's surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, a University of Michigan researcher an ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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MOON DAILY

Moon water could have solar source: study
Scientists on Sunday said they had found water molecules in samples of lunar soil, and their unusual signature points to the Sun as the indirect source. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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IRON AND ICE

Lost asteroid rediscovered with a little help from ESA
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-kilome ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

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
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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
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EXO WORLDS

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
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IRON AND ICE

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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MOON DAILY

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
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SATURN DAILY

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
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TECH SPACE

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
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TIME AND SPACE

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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MOON DAILY

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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EXO LIFE

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
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