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June 04, 2014

'Neapolitan' exoplanets come in three flavors
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 03, 2014
The planets of our solar system come in two basic flavors, like vanilla and chocolate ice cream. We have small, rocky terrestrials like Earth and Mars, and large gas giants like Neptune and Jupiter. We're missing the astronomical equivalent of strawberry ice cream - planets between about one and four times the size of Earth. NASA's Kepler mission has discovered that these types of planets are very common around other stars. New research following up on the Kepler discoveries shows that alien world ... read more

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To Catch a Comet by the Tail The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been traveling for a decade to meet comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C-G). Rosetta is expected to finally catch up with C-G in August. Then in Nove ... more		Astronomers find a new type of planet: The 'mega-Earth' Astronomers have discovered a new type of planet - a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. Theorists believed such a world couldn't form because anything so hefty would grab hydrogen gas a ... more		Harsh space weather may doom potential life on red-dwarf planets Life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought. Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because they are the most common type of star, ... more
				International team replicates amplification of cosmic magnetic fields have established that cosmic turbulence could have amplified magnetic fields to the strengths observed in interstellar space. "Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe," said Don Lamb, t ... more		Because you can't eat just one: Star will swallow two planets Two worlds orbiting a distant star are about to become a snack of cosmic proportions. Astronomers report that the planets Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c will be swallowed by their star in a short time by ... more

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Galaxy possibly teeming with 100 million life-sustaining planets Forget close encounters of a third kind. Imagine galactic encounters with millions of planets in the Milky Way galaxy, each of them overflowing with complex life forms. A new study says it's a possi ... more		Galaxies In Collision A short time ago, in a galaxy very, very close by, a NASA satellite thought it detected a gamma ray burst in Andromeda. It was a false alarm, but astronomers used the opportunity as a reminder that ... more		EU leaders plot defence boost in shadow of Denmark drones Germany wants to allow military to shoot down drones Leaked info: China's Taiwan invasion plans get help from Russia		Violent Birth Announcement from an Infant Star This Hubble image shows IRAS 14568-6304, a young star that is cloaked in a haze of golden gas and dust. It appears to be embedded within an intriguing swoosh of dark sky, which curves through the im ... more
				Chandra Helps Explain "Red and Dead Galaxies" NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed new light on the mystery of why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars. This new evidence highlights the important role that supermassive b ... more		'Godzilla' of Earths circles distant star Astronomers have spotted the "Godzilla" of all Earths, a huge rocky planet orbiting a star 560 light years away that is changing scientists' understanding of the origins of the universe. ... more

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Russia preparing to launch Okno space surveillance system at full capacity State tests of the Okno (Window) complex for tracking and monitoring man-made space objects in Tajikistan will take place during the summer months in the interests of the Russian aerospace defence t ... more		A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the In ... more		Philippines quake kills dozens as injured overwhelm hospitals Typhoon Bualoi inflicts death, lasting floods on Vietnam Moldova backs EU in elections marred by Russian interference		Earth's gravitational pull stretches moon surface Anyone who's been to the beach - and seen the ocean's tides - knows the moon's gravitational effects on Earth are rather obvious. The effects of Earth's gravitational pull on the moon are less apparent. ... more
Rush a light wave and you'll break its data Quantum information can't break the cosmic speed limit, according to researchers* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Instit ... more		Sending entangled beams through fast-light materials Michael Lewis's bestselling book "Flash Boys" describes how some brokers, engaging in high frequency trading, exploit fast telecommunications to gain fraction-of-a-second advantage in the buying and ... more		NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon's lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth's sway - a response not seen from orbit before. The team drew on s ... more		A first for NASA's IRIS: a gigantic eruption of solar material Earlier this month, a coronal mass ejection (CME) - which sounds both gross and dangerous, until you learn it's just a really big solar flare - leaped from the side of the sun. Luckily, IRIS, NASA's newest solar observatory, was in prime position to capture a detailed profile view of extraordinary ejection. ... more

	Zeroing in on the proton's magnetic moment As part of a series of experiments designed to resolve one of the deepest mysteries of physics today, researchers from RIKEN, in collaboration with the University of Mainz, GSI Darmstadt and the Max ... more		Why Does Earth Have No Super-Earth Cousins? New discoveries of many super-Earth planets orbiting very close to sun-like stars have started to make Earth's solar system look a little lonely. The mystery of why Earth ended up without any super- ... more

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