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Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to LifePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2012 Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a study by Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. They suggest that the size and location of an asteroid belt, shaped by the evolution of the sun's planet-forming disk and by the gravitational influence of a nearby giant Jupiter-l ... read more |
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  Super-rare, super-luminous supernovae are likely explosion of universe's earliest stars The most-distant, super-luminous supernovae found to date have been observed by an international team, including Raymond Carlberg of the University of Toronto's Department of Astronomy and Astrophys ... more | .. |
  Space Station's Orbit Raised to Avoid Space Junk The Russian Mission Control said the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was raised on Thursday by one kilometer to avoid a possible collision with space junk. "The maneuver to adju ... more | .. |
 Curious About Life: Interview with Jennifer Stern 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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  NASA's SAMPEX Mission: A Space Weather Warrior NASA's very first small explorer, the Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer or SAMPEX, was launched July 3, 1992 to study the zoo of particles and cosmic rays surrounding Earth. ... more | .. |
  Bristol scientists perform new experiment to solve the 'one real mystery' of quantum mechanics What is light made of: waves or particles? This basic question has fascinated physicists since the early days of science. Quantum mechanics predicts that photons, particles of light, are both partic ... more | .. |
  Cassini Halloween Treat: Titan Glows in the Dark A literal shot in the dark by imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has yielded an image of a visible glow from Titan, emanating not just from the top of Titan's atmosphere, but also - surpri ... more | .. |
  Dawn Sees "Young" Surface on Giant Asteroid Like a Hollywood starlet constantly retouching her makeup, the giant asteroid Vesta is constantly stirring its outermost layer to present a young face. Data from NASA's Dawn mission show that a form ... more |
  
China launches international association to boost global access to deep space research
Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
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  Physicists confirm first planet discovered in a quadruple star system Justin Crepp, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, provided the high-contrast imaging observations that confirmed the first extrasolar planet discovered in a quadruple sta ... more | .. |
 Stars Ancient and Modern? This colourful view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This new picture, ... more | .. |
 Dawn On Route To Ceres Dawn is making good progress on the second segment of its cosmic travels. Following more than a year of arduous but sensationally productive and exciting work revealing the fascinating character of ... more | .. |
 Protoplanet Vesta: Forever young? Like a movie star constantly retouching her makeup, the protoplanet Vesta is continually stirring its outermost layer and presenting a young face. New data from NASA's Dawn mission show that a ... more |
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 Distant super-luminous supernovae found Two 'super-luminous' supernovae - stellar explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than other supernova types - have been detected in the distant Universe. The discovery, led by Swinburne University of T ... more | .. |
 Fire burn and cauldron bubble The cosmic cauldron has brewed up a Halloween trick in the form of a ghostly face that glows in X-rays, as seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope. The eerie entity is a bubble bursting with the fi ... more | .. |
 Dark clouds, young stars, and a dash of Hollywood Stars are born in hiding, when dense regions within clouds of gas and dust collapse under their own gravity. But the clouds not only provide the raw material for star formation, they also absorb mos ... more | .. |
 Planet-hunt data released to public A year's worth of planet-hunting data gathered by NASA's Kepler space telescope has been made available to scientists and the public, researchers said. ... 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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 Researchers look beyond space and time to cope with quantum theory Physicists have proposed an experiment that could force us to make a choice between extremes to describe the behaviour of the Universe. The proposal comes from an international team of researchers f ... more | .. |
 Super-massive black hole inflates giant bubble Using a brand-new radio telescope, astronomers have produced one of the best images ever made at the lowest frequencies of giant bubbles produced by a super-massive black hole. The observations were ... more | .. |
  Voyager observes magnetic field fluctuations in heliosheath As they near the outer reaches of the solar system, for the past several years the two Voyager spacecraft have been sending back observations that challenge scientists' views of the physics at the e ... more | .. |
 Galactic Thief: "I Would Have Gotten Away With It, If It Weren't for Those Meddling Astronomers" One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way almost got away with theft. However, new simulations convicted the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) of stealing stars from its neighbor, the Small Magellanic ... more |
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 Gaia launcher separation test and Payload Module acceptance vibration tests completed Testing of the separation of the Gaia Service Module from its Launch Vehicle Adapter has been completed, as have the acceptance vibration tests on the Payload Module. Two more important test c ... more | .. |
 For the Milky Way, it's snack time Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers have discovered a band, or stream, of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by the Milky Way, Earth's home ... more | .. |
  Study: Moon basin formed by giant impact A flattened 1,800-mile-wide section of the moon was likely caused by a collision with an asteroid the size of Austria, Japanese researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Russian Briz-M booster falls apart in orbit Russia's Space Defense Forces have confirmed that the Briz-M propellant upper stage fell apart in the near-Earth orbit on October 16. Space Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said Monday the ... more |
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Bezos-backed methane-tracking satellite lost in space
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 Whizzing Asteroid Turns Rocket Scientists' Heads International leaders in asteroid and comet research are gathering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando Friday, Feb. 15, for a special "viewing party" that will climax with asteroid 2012 ... more | .. |
 STEREO Reaches New Milestone At Its Sixth Anniversary On the evening of Oct. 25, 2006, the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft launched into space, destined for fairly simple orbits: both circle the sun like Earth does, STE ... more | .. |
 Monster galaxy may have been stirred up by black-hole mischief Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy, with a core bigger than any seen before. There are two intriguing expl ... more | .. |
 U.S. unveils new supercomputer Graphic processing units first created for computer gaming have been used to create one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, U.S. officials say. ... more |
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 A black widow's Tango Mortale in gamma-ray light Pulsars are the compact remnants from explosions of massive stars. Some of them spin around their own axis hundreds of times per second, emitting beams of radiation into space. Until now, they could ... more | .. |
 Record space junk cloud could threaten ISS: report The explosion of a failed Russian rocket upper stage has created a space junk cloud of 500 pieces which could threaten the International Space Station, a report said Thursday. In one of the bi ... more | .. |
 Revealing a Mini-Supermassive Black Hole One of the lowest mass supermassive black holes ever observed in the middle of a galaxy has been identified, thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other observatories. The host gala ... more | .. |
 Curious About Life: Interview with Felipe Gomez 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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