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December 25, 2014

Tales from a Martian Rock
San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2014
A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its surface and any life that ever formed there might have emerged. Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, NASA and the Smithsonian Institution report detailed measurements of minerals within the meteorite in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the Nationa ... read more

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Sun Sizzles in High-Energy X-Rays For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing images of our sun. NASA's Nuclear ... more		Hubble Sees the Beautiful side of IC 335 This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies. IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in th ... more		Scientists create human primordial cells in the lab The first time in history, researchers have successfully used human embryonic stem cells to create primordial germ cells, cells that divide and mature into egg and sperm. Previously, the feat had been accomplished using rodent stem cells - not those from a human embryo. ... more
				Milky Way has new neighbor, KKs3 The Milky Way galaxy has a new cosmic neighbor - galaxy KKs3 - discovered thanks to newly collected data courtesy of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... more		NASA uses powerful X-ray telescope to take vibrant photo of the sun NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has taken its first photo of the sun. ... more

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Choreography of an electron pair Physicists are continuously advancing the control they can exert over matter. A German-Spanish team working with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg has now b ... more		Young Red Dwarf Stars could Host Habitable Worlds Red dwarf stars, or M dwarfs, have recently been hailed as the best places to discover alien life. They are by far the most common stars in our galaxy, making up 75 percent of all stars. They are al ... more		EU states to hold talks on 'drone wall' to protect bloc Denmark military intel fails to identify source of drone flights Lithuania eases rules on shooting down drones		Contamination of Impacted Meteorites Can Happen Quickly A team of scientists has published the results of an investigative survey into the Sutter's Mill meteorite that landed in California in 2012. The results reveal that the meteorite contained a ... more
				'Shooting the Moon' with Satellite Laser Ranging Laser ranging from Earth to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was a milestone in the 50-year history of satellite laser ranging. Launched in 2009 and still orbiting the moon in 2014, LRO was ... more		NASA's Chandra Weighs Most Massive Galaxy Cluster in Distant Universe A composite image shows the distant and massive galaxy cluster that is officially known as XDCP J0044.0-2033. Researchers, however, have nicknamed it "Gioiello", which is Italian for "jewel". They c ... more

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

How electrons split: New evidence of exotic behaviors Electrons may be seen as small magnets that also carry a negative electrical charge. On a fundamental level, these two properties are indivisible. However, in certain materials where the electrons a ... more		Comet probe in race against time to crown stellar feat Europe's deep-space robot lab Philae worked against the clock Friday, attempting to drill into a comet 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth to crown a historic exploration before its battery runs out. ... more		NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival China warns Papua New Guinea over Australian defence deal		Philae probing comet with hours left on battery Europe's probe Philae was busily conducting experiments on a comet 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth with just hours of onboard battery life left, ground control reported of signals received Friday. ... more
Exact Solution to Model Big Bang and Quark Gluon Plasma Unlike in mathematics, it is rare to have exact solutions to physics problems. "When they do present themselves, they are an opportunity to test the approximation schemes (algorithms) that are used ... more		The hot blue stars of Messier 47 Messier 47 is located approximately 1600 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Puppis (the poop deck of the mythological ship Argo). It was first noticed some time before 1654 by Italian a ... more		Kepler Proves It Can Still Find Planets To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of the Kepler spacecraft's death was greatly exaggerated. Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, Kepler is still alive and working. Th ... more		XMM-Newton spots monster black hole hidden in tiny galaxy First impressions can be deceptive - astronomers have used ESA's X-ray satellite XMM-Newton to find a massive black hole hungrily feeding within a tiny dwarf galaxy, despite there being no hint of t ... more

	NASA's Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft makes a comeback with the discovery of the first exoplanet found using its new mission - K2. The discovery was made when astronomers and engineers devised an ... more		Signs of Europa Plumes Remain Elusive in Search of Cassini Data A fresh look at data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its 2001 flyby of Jupiter shows that Europa's tenuous atmosphere is even thinner than previously thought and also suggests that the ... more

JUNO begins decade-long mission to probe neutrino mysteries

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Voyager debuts first space based multi cloud region to advance orbital data processing

Rosetta comet-landing is Science's 2014 breakthrough		'Perfect Storm' Quenching Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole		NASA Satellites Measure Increase of Sun's Energy Absorbed in the Arctic		Surprising Theorists, Stars Within Middle-Aged Clusters Are of Similar Age		Rosetta Orbiter to Swoop Down On Comet in February
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Moon Express testing compact lunar lander at Kennedy

NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami Wave' Still Flies Through Interstellar Space

Oil-dwelling bacteria are social creatures in Earth's deep biosphere

Fraud-proof credit cards possible with quantum physics

Researchers use real data rather than theory to measure the cosmos

Interstellar Mystery Solved By Supercomputer Simulations

Observing Solar System Worlds as if They Were Distant Exoplanets

SwRI develops solar observatory for use on suborbital manned space missions

MESSENGER Data Suggest Recurring Meteor Shower on Mercury

Galactic Get-Together Has Impressive Light Display

Galactic Gathering Gives Sparkling Light Display

Interstellar Mystery Solved by Supercomputer Simulations

Researchers detect possible signal from dark matter

Researchers detect possible signal from dark matter

Astronomers spot Pluto-size objects swarming about young sun

SwRI scientists develop solar observatory for use on suborbital manned space missions

Scientists measure speedy electrons in silicon

Rosetta Comet Water Different Than Earth Water

How Did Life Become Complex, And Could It Happen Beyond Earth?

The Science of Magnetic Reconnection

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