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July 01, 2013

"Shields to Maximum, Mr. Scott"
Austin TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2013
We know it's out there, debris from 50 years of space exploration - aluminum, steel, nylon, even liquid sodium from Russian satellites - orbiting around the Earth and posing a danger to manned and unmanned spacecraft. According to NASA, there are more than 21,000 pieces of 'space junk' roughly the size of a baseball (larger than 10 centimeters) in orbit, and about 500,000 pieces that are golf ball-sized (between one to 10 centimeters). Sure, space is big, but when a piece of space junk strik ... read more

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Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier Of Our Solar Bubble Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. ... more		Spiral galaxies like Milky Way bigger than thought Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study by researchers ... more		NASA Launches Satellite To Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere w ... more
				Researchers call for rethinking efforts to prevent interplanetary contamination Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive-on Mars. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairen ... more		NASA launches satellite to study solar material The US space agency launched a satellite late Thursday to unlock the secrets of the Sun's lower atmosphere. ... more

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NASA's Voyager 1 approaches outer limit of solar system The Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching the outer limit of the solar system but remains months or even years away from the farthest reach of the sun's magnetic pull, NASA said Thursday. ... more		A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and one of science's greatest mysteries is ho ... more		Maintaining US space dominance requires rapid and reliable delivery of new systems Shield or Spark? The U.S. Golden Dome and the New Missile Arms Race Starcloud partners with Mission Space to protect orbital datacenters with real time space weather intelligence		1 star, 3 habitable planets A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Paul Butler, has combined new observations with existing data to reveal a solar system packed full of planets. The star Gliese 667C is orbited by between ... more
				Astronomers spy on galaxies in the raw A CSIRO radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old - less than a quarter of its current age. ... more		Launch Of Latest NASA Solar Mission Rescheduled To June 27 The launch of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is being delayed one day to 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Thursday, June 27, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ... more

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Gas-giant exoplanets seen clinging close to their parent stars U.S. astronomers say they've found distant gas-giant planets are rare around many types of stars and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. ... more		Astronomers find three 'super-Earths' in nearby star's habitable zone An international team of astronomers has found that a nearby star previously thought to host two or three planets is in fact orbited by six or seven worlds, including an unprecedented three to five ... more		Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan's water struggles Year after northern Nigeria floods, survivors left high and dry Africa's path to low-carbon food security		Three planets in habitable zone of nearby star Gliese 667C is a very well-studied star. Just over one third of the mass of the Sun, it is part of a triple star system known as Gliese 667 (also referred to as GJ 667), 22 light-years away in the c ... more
				First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars, including our Sun, are born in small, benign groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms that survive for billions of years a ... more		Solar activity reduces radiation exposure in the air At present, the Sun is very active - a surface covered with sunspots, frequent ejections of matter and a stronger solar wind blowing towards Earth. In the meantime, however, radiation exposure at ai ... more

New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan at Pluto

Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter

'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

Researchers call for rethinking efforts to prevent interplanetary contamination

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Three planets in habitable zone of nearby star

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First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered

Opportunity Clocks Up 37 Kilometers Of Roving Mars

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	Messier 61 Looks Straight Into Hubble's Camera The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly th ... more		Huge Chunk of Meteorite Located in Urals Lake A huge fragment of meteorite that slammed into Russia's Urals region in February was located on the bottom of Chebarkul Lake in the Chelyabinsk Region, a scientist said on Friday. On Februar ... more		Catch that bug! Spiders, beetles and worms might look creepy, but these creatures tell us a lot about biodiversity. Students are being challenged to count the creepy-crawlies' eyes, legs and antennae and compare th ... more		Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the P ... more

China sends 11th group of internet satellites into orbit for global constellation

NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space

NRL coronagraph on NOAA SWFO L1 will enhance space weather forecasts

Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained		Trio of 'super Earths' in a star's habitable zone		Retirement for planet-hunting space probe		Study finds planets in habitable zone around a distant star		The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy
NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury		Solar Splashdown		Revealed - the mystery of the gigantic storm on Saturn		Particle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science research		Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole

Unusual supernova is doubly unusual for being perfectly normal

Colliding Galaxy Pair Takes Flight

Researchers unmask Janus-faced nature of mechanical forces with the Julich supercomputer

Antifreeze on Titan Could Affect Its Chances for Life

New method to distinguish between neighbouring quantum bits

NASA enlists public in hunt for major asteroids

Scientists use gravity, topographic data to find unmapped moon craters

New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

Australian team maps Moon's hidden craters

Cosmic Giants Shed New Light on Dark Matter

Exoplanet formation surprise

Biological Soil Crust Secrets Uncovered

NASA's Hubble Uncovers Evidence of Farthest Planet Forming From its Star

China supercomputer world's fastest: report

NASA-led study explains decades of black hole observations

Johns Hopkins Researcher, Colleagues, Solve Mystery of X-ray Light Coming From Black Holes

Zoe Robot Returns To Atacama In Search For Subsurface Life

Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos

Euclid to probe dark Universe with Astrium science module

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