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November 16, 2015

Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2015
The NEOWISE mission hunts for near-Earth objects (NEOs) using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Funded by NASA's NEO Observations Program, the NEOWISE mission uses images taken by the spacecraft to look for asteroids and comets, providing a rich source of measurements of solar system objects at infrared wavelengths. These measurements include wavelengths that are difficult or impossible to detect directly from the ground. NEOWISE is one of 54 ongoing projects supported by ... read more

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Rosetta and Philae: one year since landing on a comet One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander, while also looking ahead to next year's grand finale: making a controlle ... more		Fermi Satellite Detects First Gamma-Ray Pulsar in Another Galaxy Researchers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for the most luminous gamma-ray pulsa ... more		New exoplanet in our neighborhood Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet that, in the language of "Star Wars," would be the polar opposite of frigid Hoth, and even more inhospitable than the deserts of Tatooine. But instead of r ... more
				The colors of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system of ESA's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, shows a surface with subtle, but significant color variations. To the naked eye comet 67P/Chu ... more		More Than Meets the Eye - Delta Orionis in Orion's Belt One of the most recognizable constellations in the sky is Orion, the Hunter. Among Orion's best-known features is the "belt," consisting of three bright stars in a line, each of which can be seen wi ... more

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Ancient stars at the center of the galaxy contain 'fingerprints' from the early universe An international team of astronomers, led researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Australian National University, have identified some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, which could con ... more		Cassini Finds Monstrous Ice Cloud in Titan's South Polar Region New observations made near the south pole of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft add to the evidence that winter comes in like a lion on this moon of Saturn. Scientists have detected a monstrous new ... more		US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China Spain approves 'total' arms embargo against Israel Khamenei says Iran 'won't yield' to pressure to abandon uranium enrichment		Astronomers eager to get a whiff of newfound Venus-like planet The collection of rocky planets orbiting distant stars has just grown by one, and the latest discovery is the most intriguing one to date. The newfound world, although hot as an oven, is cool enough ... more
				Oldest stars found near Milky Way center Astronomers have discovered the oldest known stars, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just 300 million years old. The stars, found near the centre of the Milky Wa ... more		Machine learning could solve riddles of galaxy formation A new machine-learning simulation system developed at the University of Illinois promises cosmologists an expanded suite of galaxy models - a necessary first step to developing more accurate and rel ... more

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The glowing halo of a zombie star Led by Christopher Manser, a PhD student at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, the team used data from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and other observatories to study the shattered r ... more		Asteroid ripped apart to form star's glowing ring system The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time. Comprised of dust particles and debris, the rings are f ... more		Typhoon Ragasa hits south China after killing 15 in Taiwan Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires Climate change causing havoc with global water cycle: UN		The solution to faster computing? Sing to your data Nothing is more frustrating that watching that circle spinning in the centre of your screen, while you wait for your computer to load a programme or access the data you need. Now a team from the Uni ... more
Measurement of Hubble constant questioned by Nobel laureate Riess' team In 1920's Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, showed that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, known as Hubble's law. Hubble's law is taken as the first ... more		UCLA professor proposes simpler way to define what makes a planet Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun. But astronomers are still working on what exactly we should call them. At an America ... more		Early Earth's haze may give clue to habitability elsewhere in space An atmospheric haze around a faraway planet - like the one which probably shrouded and cooled the young Earth - could show that the world is potentially habitable, or even be a sign of life itself. ... more		Newfound Earth-size exoplanet may be an important milestone in search for alien life Researchers have discovered an exoplanet just slightly bigger than Earth and located much closer to our Solar System than any other terrestrial, alien world. Called GJ 1132b, it orbits a tiny red, d ... more

	Close-up view of galaxies prompts re-think on star formation Astronomers have identified for the first time one of the key components of many stars, a study suggests. A type of gas found in the voids between galaxies - known as atomic gas - appears to be part ... more		NASA's Beach Ball Coronagraph What's better at blocking sunlight: a traditional flat occulter disk or a beach ball? NASA scientist Phillip Chamberlin is putting his money on the latter. He and his team at NASA's Goddard Space Fl ... more

China's Alibaba teams up with Nvidia on AI robot tech

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China steps into spotlight at UN climate talks

A new explanation for the explosive nature of magnetic reconnection		Mercury Gets a Meteoroid Shower from Comet Encke		New Results from GPI Exoplanet Survey		Early Earth's Haze May Give Clue to Habitability Elsewhere		Antimatter not so different after all
Space rains junk on Spain		Experiment records extreme quantum weirdness		Amazon flies high in the Internet cloud		Recreating a heavenly chorus of plasma waves on Earth		Europe comes together for space weather

Clues to the formation of magnetic fields around stars and galaxies

Dark Matter and Particle Acceleration in Near Space

UMD discovery could enable portable particle accelerators

The fading cinders of some of our galaxy's earliest homesteaders

ALCF helps tackle the Large Hadron Collider's big data challenge

SwRI scientists explain why moon rocks contain fewer volatiles than Earth's

Deserts and dunes: Earth as an analogue for Titan

Swift Spots its Thousandth Gamma-ray Burst

Gaia's sensors scan a lunar transit

Unlocking the mysteries of 'little starlets'

Supernova twins: Making standard candles more standard than ever

One year after comet touchdown, what's next for Philae?

Looking For Deliberate Radio Signals From KIC 8462852

Growing pains in a cluster of protostars

Hunting for Meteorites in Antarctica

Europe comes together for space weather

Cassini Plunged Into Icy Plumes of Enceladus

Radar Images Provide New Details on Halloween Asteroid

Distant world's weather is mixed bag of hot dust and molten rain

Have scientists found evidence of a parallel universe?

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