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February 03, 2014

Planetary Protection: Preventing Microbes Hitchhiking to Space
Paris (ESA) Feb 03, 2014
While astronauts might dream of discovering unknown life one day in their future career, ESA's Planetary Protection Officer oversees activities that achieve it on a regular basis. As part of the Agency's efforts to prevent microbial lifeforms hitching a ride on missions to other planets and moons in our Solar System, teams regularly scour cleanrooms and launch facilities, on the hunt for any microbial inhabitants. The sites used to prepare certain types of space hardware are among the cleane ... read more

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Rogue asteroids may be the norm To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiate ... more		Where the Wild Stars Are A storm of stars is brewing in the Trifid nebula, as seen in this view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The stellar nursery, where baby stars are bursting into being, is the ... more		Universe's early galaxies grew massive through collisions It has long puzzled scientists that there were enormously massive galaxies that were already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe, approx. 3 billion years after the Big Ban ... more
				NASA's LRO Snaps a Picture of NASA's LADEE Spacecraft With precise timing, the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was able to take a picture of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft as it orbited ... more		NASA and ESA Space Telescopes Help Solve Mystery of Burned-Out Galaxies Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, and Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact elliptical galaxies that erupted and ... more

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Sun's closest neighbor could harbor 'superhabitable' world The sun's closest neighbor star may host a "superhabitable," life-supporting world of islands, shallow seas and gentle slopes, Canadian scientists say. ... more		Asteroid Diversity Points to a "Snow Globe" Solar System Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orbital paths unchanged since they formed ... more		Northrop Grumman Hypersonic Navigation System Exceeds Rocket Test Milestones We can build fighter jet without Germany: France's Dassault Moldova backs EU in elections marred by Russian interference		Rosetta wide awake as check-up continues Following last week's wake-up of the Rosetta comet-chaser, ESA's flight controllers have conducted the first in a series of health checks aimed at assessing how well it came through 31 months of hib ... more
				NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, Dis ... more		Russia, US to join forces against space threats Russia and the United States will pool efforts in the creation of asteroid diversion techniques. Russian Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov said in a video link with the administrator of ... more

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International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

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First Weather Map of Brown Dwarf ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light ... more		Cassini's View of Weird and Wonderful Saturn Since Cassini entered orbit around Saturn in 2004, it has sent back a wealth of information about the planet and its moons. On Wednesday, December 4, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hos ... 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		Sole camera from NASA moon missions to be auctioned NASA's only camera to have made it to the moon and back as part of the Apollo manned missions will be auctioned in Vienna on March 21, organisers said Thursday. ... more
				Solving a 30-year-old problem in massive star formation An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe. Young m ... more		UCSC Scientists Capture First Cosmic Web Filaments at Keck Observatory Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Res ... more

Countdown to Pluto

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Planetary Protection: Preventing Microbes Hitchhiking to Space

Sun's closest neighbor could harbor 'superhabitable' world

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First Weather Map of Brown Dwarf

NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries

Astronomers create first map of weather on nearby brown dwarf star

Curiosity Mars Rover Checking Possible Smoother Route

NASA looking for smoother route for Mars rover travels

NASA Mars project: radiation risk of highest concern

	River of Hydrogen Flowing through Space Seen with Green Bank Telescope Using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen river of hydr ... more		Scientists probe mystery of early 'dead' galaxies in the universe Danish scientists say cosmic collisions created enormously massive galaxies already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe. ... more		Astronomers create first map of weather on nearby brown dwarf star Astronomers say they've used a telescope in Chile to create the first-ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf star to Earth. ... more		Astronomers say 'rogue' asteroids often found where they don't belong "Rogue" asteroids - space rocks with compositions at odds with their position in the solar system - may be the norm, not the exception, U.S. astronomers say. ... more

NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space

India plans mega-dam to counter China water fears

Breakthrough in UAV swarm intelligence as SRI redefines topology mapping

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Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research		NASA Spacecraft Take Aim At Nearby Supernova		Hubble, Hubble, Seeing Double		Black Hole Powers 'Cosmic Flashlight' Illuminating the Cosmic Web		NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown

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Hugging hemes help electrons hop

China's moon rover experiences abnormality

Extreme Power of Black Hole Revealed

NASA-funded sounding rocket to catch aurora in the act

Yutu moon rover has 'abnormality': Xinhua

NEOWISE Celebrates First Month of Operations After Reactivation

Mass is critical at nano-scale; matters in calculations and measurements

Water found in stardust suggests life may be common in universe

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Hubble Looks At Messier 65 and Its History

SAP says cloud computing to continue to boost sales

Bamboo math documents called China's earliest

ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System

Galaxies on FIRE: Star Feedback Results in Less Massive Galaxies

Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet

Bright star reveals new exoplanet

'Dwarf planet' in deep space has water

Peeking into Schrodinger's box

Did the Milky Way form 'inside-out'

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