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March 19, 2013

Building the Massive Simulation Sets Essential to Planck Results
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2013
To make the most precise measurement yet of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the remnant radiation from the big bang - the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Planck satellite mission has been collecting trillions of observations of the sky since the summer of 2009. On March 21, 2013, ESA and NASA, a major partner in Planck, will release preliminary cosmology results based on Planck's first 15 months of data. The results have required the intense creative efforts of a large international collab ... read more

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Mission to Ganymede more tricky than expected Russia's proposed landing mission to Ganymede was discussed extensively last week at an international meeting hosted by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The mission t ... more		'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter In the swirling canopy of Jupiter's atmosphere, cloudless patches are so exceptional that the big ones get the special name "hot spots." Exactly how these clearings form and why they're only found n ... more		Earth will drown in garbage Man-made garbage cluttering from near space is a very intensive process. Therefore, it may happen that within the coming 20 years safe near-Earth orbits which it would be possible to use will become ... more
				Water signature in distant planet shows clues to its formation A team of international scientists including a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory astrophysicist has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size like planet beyond ... more		Sunset Comet March 15, 2013: For a comet, visiting the sun is risky business. Fierce solar heat vaporizes gases long frozen in the fragile nucleus, breaking up some comets and completely destroying others. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Distant planetary system is a super-sized solar system A team of astronomers, including Quinn Konopacky of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupi ... more		NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful 'Star Wreck' While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star. Designated G306.3-0.9 after the c ... more		Revolutionising the Skies: How Helsing's CA-1 Europa Drone Could Transform Autonomous Warfare Lockheed Martin Sikorsky unveils scalable Nomad drone family for autonomous long-range missions Firefly Aerospace to Acquire SciTec in $855M Deal Expanding National Security Portfolio		Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun On March 15, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space and can reach ... more
				Scientists probe 'hot spots' on Jupiter Scientists say they have new clues about a phenomenon on Jupiter dubbed "hot spots," cloudless patches providing a window deep into the planet's atmosphere. ... more		'Bizarre Bacteria' in Lake Vostok Study Likely a Contaminant Last week, reports began to emerge that Russian scientists had discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria in samples of lake water from one of Antarctica's most famous subglacial lakes. Wor ... more

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Antarctic and Arctic Insects Use Different Genetic Mechanisms to Cope With Lack of Water Although they live in similarly extreme ecosystems at opposite ends of the world, Antarctic insects appear to employ entirely different methods at the genetic level to cope with extremely dry condit ... more		Analysis brings Higgs confirmation closer The new particle detected by the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland last summer is looking more and more like the long-sought Higgs boson, scientists report. ... more		Deep-sea mining poses new threat to sharks, rays and ghost sharks Hydropower emerges as Southeast Asia's hidden force in driving down carbon emissions An Aussie tycoon bets billions on cleaning up iron ore giant		Russian meteor million of years old The meteor that exploded over Russia last month probably broke off an asteroid and collided with another space body millions of years ago, a scientist says. ... more
				China sets moon mission re-entry test China says it will conduct re-entry tests before 2015 of a spacecraft to be used in a mission to have a lunar explorer probe bring lunar soil samples to Earth. ... more		Fastest camera may film atomic motion British researchers say they are working on a movie camera so fast it will be able to record processes taking place inside atoms and molecules. ... more

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Herschel gets to the bottom of black hole jets		ALMA finds 'monster' starburst galaxies in the early universe		Southampton scientist investigates Russian meteor		Soccer Balls in Interstellar Space		Early Universe bred 'starburst' mega-galaxies: study

Long Awaited, Comet PanSTARRS Now Glows in the Twilight

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Lunar impacts created seas of molten rock

The mercury rises for BepiColombo

Dispute over Antarctic 'unidentified' life

Astronomers Conduct First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System

Distance to nearest galaxy measured

Planetary Data System Releases MESSENGER Data from Third Mercury Solar Day

Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

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Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered

Russian satellite hit by remnants of destroyed Chinese spacecraft

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Measuring the universe more accurately than ever before

Probing Extreme Matter Through Observations Of Neutron Stars

Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea

Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star

Pan-STARRS Finds a "Lost" Supernova

CSI: Milky Way

The dynamic of Spain's population follows the maximum entropy principle

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