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April 18, 2013
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Sofia Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2013
Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of dust and gas. The star is G35.20-0.74, commonly known as G35. It is one of the most massive known protostars and is located relatively close to Earth at a distance of 8,000 light-years. Until now, scientists expected the formation process of massive stars would be complicated by the turbulent, cha ... read more
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IRON AND ICE

Bechtel Partners with Planetary Resources for Space Initiative
Planetary Resources, Inc. has announced that Bechtel has joined their core group of investors and will be a collaborative partner in helping Planetary Resources achieve its long-term mission, which ... more
IRON AND ICE

NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test
An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test. The test assessed performance of the Near Earth Object Camera (N ... more
EXO LIFE

Study: Lack of magnetic field could render many exoplanets lifeless
Some Earth-like exoplanets that are seemingly habitable may be missing magnetic shielding, exposing them to damaging radiation, researchers in Colombia say. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers observe 'blazar' emitting highest-energy light ever seen
Astronomers meeting in Denver say the skies are being flooded with the brightest display of Gamma rays - the universe's highest-energy light - ever seen. ... more


IRON AND ICE

How to Target an Asteroid
Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space na ... more
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Dark Matter Search Results Indicate First Hint Of Wimp-Like Signal
An international collaboration whose search for dark matter is powered by detectors being fabricated at Texas A and M University has for the first time observed a concrete hint of what physicists be ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves
As Earth moves around the sun, it travels surrounded by a giant bubble created by its own magnetic fields, called the magnetosphere. As the magnetosphere plows through space, it sets up a standing b ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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
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TIME AND SPACE

Photons run out of loopholes
A team led by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger has now carried out an experiment with photons, in which they have closed an important loophole. The researchers have thus provided the most comp ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray Bursts
Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two international teams of astronomers stud ... more
SATURN DAILY

Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?
By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's surface. A team led ... more
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Hubble Catches Dusty Detail in Elliptical Galaxy NGC 2768
The soft glow in this image is NGC 2768, an elliptical galaxy located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). NGC 2768 appears here as a bright oval on the sky, surrounded by a ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE

Spring Fling: Sun Emits a Mid-Level Flare
The M6.5 flare on the morning of April 11, 2013, was also associated with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), another solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles in ... more
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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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The mathematical method for simulating the evolution of the solar system has been improved
In order to improve a simulation designed to study the evolution of the solar system through time, numerical mathematical methods have been developed at the Computing Faculty of the University of th ... more
IRON AND ICE

Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014
New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's orbit. Based ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Supernova may have left biological 'signature' in ancient Earth
Samples from the Pacific Ocean floor may hold the signature of a distant supernova that bathed the Earth with high energy millions of years ago, scientists say. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

Public to vote on names for Pluto moons

The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch


STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Study: Lack of magnetic field could render many exoplanets lifeless

Power behind primordial soup discovered

University of Tennessee professor discovers how microbes survive at bare minimum


STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet?

Retired Star Found With Planets And Debris Disc

The Great Exoplanet Debate


STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Accurate pointing by Curiosity

NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet Lander

Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater

SOLAR SCIENCE

CU-Boulder to receive $36 million from NASA for space weather mission
The University of Colorado Boulder will receive roughly $36 million from NASA to build and operate a space instrument for a mission led by the University of Central Florida that will study Earth's u ... more
JOVIAN DREAMS

Where are the Best Windows Into Europa's Interior?
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa exposes material churned up from inside the moon and also material resulting from matter and energy coming from above. If you want to learn about the deep saltwa ... more
EXO WORLDS

Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet?
In the light of recent events, where the possibility of buying the rights to name exoplanets has been advertised, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) wishes to inform the public that such sch ... more
SATURN DAILY

Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South Pole
An ice cloud taking shape over Titan's south pole is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Made from an u ... more
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Renewables overtake coal but growth slows: reports
OpenAI's Fidji Simo says AI investment frenzy 'new normal,' not bubble
Tokyo stocks hit new record as markets extend global rally
IRON AND ICE

Beer Cans For Deep Space

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

A Ghostly Green Bubble

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Discovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild

SATURN DAILY

Blame it on the Rain (from Saturn's Rings)

DEEP IMPACT

Chicago museum displays fragments of meteor that exploded over Russia

IRON AND ICE

UA Helps Lead U.S. Exploration of Asteroids

IRON AND ICE

NASA's Asteroid Initiative Benefits From Rich History

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Suzaku 'Post-mortem' Yields Insight into Kepler's Supernova

EXO WORLDS

Retired Star Found With Planets And Debris Disc

MOON DAILY

Characterizing The Lunar Radiation Environment

The Space Cowboys are Back

The Great Exoplanet Debate

More Treasures from Asteroids

Scientists to Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place

Russia rekindles Moon exploration program, intends setting up first human outposts there

NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One Instrument

Observationally Confirmed Supernova Explosion of a Yellow Supergiant Star

A meteorite mystery from Mercury?

NASA wants to tow an asteroid to the moon: senator

Scientists propose revolutionary laser system to produce the next LHC

NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

On wings of light

Power behind primordial soup discovered

Quantum tricks drive magnetic switching into the fast lane

Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Europa

Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein

Stars in NGC 602a

Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars

Shining light on elusive dark matter

SDSC's Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data

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