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January 27, 2014

NEOWISE Celebrates First Month of Operations After Reactivation
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 27, 2014
In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and four comets. Three of the NEOs are new discoveries; all three are hundreds of meters in diameter and dark as coal. The mission has just passed its post-restart survey readiness review, and the project has verified that the ability to measure asteroid positions and brightness is as good as it was before the spacecraft entered h ... read more

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Extreme Power of Black Hole Revealed Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a suite of other telescopes to reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. The black hole has created enormous structures in the hot ... more		NASA-funded sounding rocket to catch aurora in the act On Jan. 24, 2014, Marilia Samara will be waiting for the perfect aurora. Samara and her science team will be at the Poker Flat Research Range in Poker Flat, Alaska, looking for classic curls in the ... more		China's moon rover experiences abnormality China's moon rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), has experienced a mechanical control abnormality, and scientists are organizing repairs. The abnormality occurred due to "complicated lunar surface envi ... more
				Looking for a superhabitable world then try Alpha Centauri B The search for extraterrestrial life extends far beyond Earth's solar system, looking for planets or moons outside the "stellar habitable zone" that may have environments even more favorable to supp ... more		Yutu moon rover has 'abnormality': Xinhua China's Jade Rabbit moon rover has experienced a "mechanical control abnormality", state media said Saturday, in what appears to be a setback for a landmark mission in the country's ambitious space programme. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Mass is critical at nano-scale; matters in calculations and measurements A UT Arlington engineering professor has proven that the effect of mass is important, can be measured and has a significant impact on any calculations and measurements at the sub-micrometer scale. ... more		ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (AL ... more		Denmark closes airspace to civilian drones amid rise in sightings Top diplomats of North Korea, China agree to oppose 'hegemonism' What is the high seas treaty?		Galaxies on FIRE: Star Feedback Results in Less Massive Galaxies For decades, astrophysicists have encountered a puzzling contradiction: although many galactic-wind models-simulations of how matter is distributed in our universe-predict that the majority of the " ... more
				Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thou ... more		Bright star reveals new exoplanet By studying the star around which the planet revolves, they found that the star's rotation appears to be well-aligned with the planetary movement. The object can be well-studied because the star is ... more

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'Dwarf planet' in deep space has water Ceres, a tiny planet in the asteroid belt, spouts water vapour, a finding that strengthens theories that life on Earth was kickstarted by a bombardment of space rocks, scientists said Wednesday. ... more		Peeking into Schrodinger's box Until recently measuring a 27-dimensional quantum state would have been a time-consuming, multistage process using a technique called quantum tomography, which is similar to creating a 3D image from ... more		The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests Wildfire-induced thunderstorms recreated in Earth system models for first time Fengyun satellite strengthens China global weather forecasting capacity		Hugging hemes help electrons hop Researchers simulating how certain bacteria run electrical current through tiny molecular wires have discovered a secret Nature uses for electron travel. The results are key to understanding how the ... more
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The Sounds of New Horizons

Looking for a superhabitable world then try Alpha Centauri B

Water found in stardust suggests life may be common in universe

Searching for life in strange places

ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System

Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet

Bright star reveals new exoplanet

NASA Receives Mars 2020 Rover Instrument Proposals for Evaluation

In the Eye of the Beholder

Opportunity at 10: New Findings from Old Rover

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NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space

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Chang'e-3 probe sets out on new missions

Rosetta, ESA's 'sleeping beauty' wakes up from deep space hibernation

Himiko and the Cosmic Dawn

First planet found around solar twin in star cluster

ISS MAXI-mizing our understanding of the universe

Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible

Potential Future Data Storage at Domain Boundaries

Space fishing: Japan to test 'magnetic net' for space junk

China's moon rover performs first lunar probe

NASA Invites Public to Send Names on an Asteroid Mission and Beyond

ISS delays planned orbit raise due to space junk threat

Viewing macro behaviors of ultra-cold quantum gases through the micro-world

Weighing particles at the attogram scale

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Japan scientists test tether to clear up space junk

The Star That Should Not Exist

Searching for life in strange places

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Comet-chasing probe to be roused from sleep

Penn research helps lay out theory for metamaterials that act as an analog computer

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