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February 03, 2015

Still doubts on gravitational waves
Trieste, Italy (SPX) Feb 03, 2015
Third (and most probably not the last) chapter in the ongoing story about the "first direct image of gravitational waves through the primordial sky". In March last year the BICEP2 team announced that it had observed the portion of cosmic background radiation (the "fossil radiation" from the Big Bang) generated by gravitational waves. In other words, this would have been the first observation of the cosmological effects of this important yet elusive phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of Gene ... read more

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The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has twisted its ... more		Could a new proposed particle help to detect dark matter? Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed a new fundamental particle which could explain why no one has managed to detect 'Dark Matter', the elusive missing 85 per cent of the Unive ... more		CAT scan of nearby supernova remnant reveals frothy interior Cassiopeia A, or Cas A for short, is one of the most well studied supernova remnants in our galaxy. But it still holds major surprises. Harvard-Smithsonian and Dartmouth College astronomers have gen ... more
				Scientists: Evidence of Big Bang theory fails to space dust Scientists have countered a controversial 2014 study that claimed to find evidence of the rapid expansion of the early universe, upending what was considered the best evidence of the Big Bang theory. ... more		Habitable Evaporated Cores I recently published a paper in Astrobiology that shows that it is possible to form Earth-mass potentially habitable planets from mini-Neptunes that migrate into the habitable zones of mid- to late ... more

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Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind Researchers studying data from NASA's Cassini mission have observed that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars or a comet when exposed to the raw power of the solar wind. The o ... more		The mouth of the beast In 1976 several elongated comet-like objects were discovered on pictures taken with the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia. Because of their appearance, they became known as cometary globules even th ... 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		NASA Engineer Advances New Daytime Star Tracker Scientists who use high-altitude scientific balloons have high hopes for their instruments in the future. Although the floating behemoths that carry their instruments far into the stratosphere can s ... more
				A new instrument to study the extreme universe What are the high-energy processes in the Universe that occur in the immediate vicinity of a black hole? To study a question like this one cannot simply utilize a high-resolution telescope. Even wit ... more		Smaller Gas Giants Could Support Life Two phenomena known to inhibit the potential habitability of planets - tidal forces and vigorous stellar activity - might instead help chances for life on certain planets orbiting low-mass stars, ... more

Will NASA's TESS Spacecraft Revolutionize Exoplanet Hunting? NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), planned to be launched in August 2017 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, is designed to discover tho ... more		Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed Ever since Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity in 1905, physics and cosmology have been based on the assumption that space looks the same in all directions - that it's not squeezed in ... 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		Researchers use sound to slow down, speed up, and block light How do you make an optical fiber transmit light only one way? Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, the phenomenon of ... more
Dawn ahead! NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the sharpest images ever seen of the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on Jan. 25, and represent a new miles ... more		Kepler astronomers discover ancient star with 5 Earth-size planets Astronomers poring over four years of data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft have discovered a star that's 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-size planets. "We thus show that Earth ... more		Galactic bubbles offer clues to dark matter Compared to other galaxies, the Milky Way is a peaceful place. But it hasn't always been so sleepy. In 2010, a team of scientists working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovere ... more		What are yellowballs Some four years ago, a citizen scientist helping the Milky Way Project study Spitzer Space Telescope images for the tell-tale bubble patterns of star formation noticed something else. "Any ide ... more

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In theory black holes exist with unbounded speeds of propagation

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Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Has Moon

Gigantic ring system around J1407b much larger, heavier than Saturn's

Chemists control structure to unlock magnetization and polarization simultaneously

Rare view of three moons casting shadows on Jupiter

Scientists slow down light particles

Scientists befuddled by mysterious white spot on Ceres

Cosmic puzzle settled: Comets give us shooting stars

Report says no technological replacement exists for bulk data collection

NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky

New Horizons ready for planet's beyond beyond

Getting to know Rosetta's comet

Rosetta Comet 'Pouring' More Water Into Space

Updated Charts for Asteroid 2004 BL86 Earth Flyby on Jan 26, 2015

Gullies on Vesta Suggest Past Water-Mobilized Flows

Maneuver Delays Messenger's Impact, Extends Orbital Operations

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