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April 05, 2016

Elusive Japanese black hole seeking satellite breaks silence
Tokyo (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2016
Japan's X-Ray Astronomy Satellite Hitomi, which was launched last month, has managed to make fleeting contact with ground control amid reports that the spacecraft has separated into six parts. The X-Ray Astronomy Satellite Hitomi, which was launched into low-Earth orbit from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center on February 17, has communicated sporadically with ground control in spite of reports that the satellite has separated into six parts. Hitomi means "eye" in Japanese, specifically the eye ... read more

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Researchers demonstrate a new way to characterize twisted light Researchers at the University of Rochester have overcome experimental challenges to demonstrate a new way for getting a full picture of twisted light: characterizing the Wigner distribution. T ... more		Hubble's journey to the center of our galaxy Peering deep into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Except for a few blue foreground stars, the stars are pa ... more		One year on station at Ceres One year after taking up its new residence in the solar system, Dawn is continuing to witness extraordinary sights on dwarf planet Ceres. The indefatigable explorer is carrying out its intensive cam ... more
				New use for X-rays: A radar gun for unruly atoms X-rays have long been used to make pictures of tiny objects, even single atoms. Now a team of scientists has discovered a new use for X-rays at the atomic scale: using them like a radar gun to measu ... more		Revealing the ion transport at nanoscale EPFL researchers have shown that a law of physics having to do with electron transport at nanoscale can also be analogously applied to the ion transport. This discovery provides insight into a key a ... more

Transition from Operations to Decommissioning by Preparing a Safe, Cost-Effective Shut Down and Waste Management Strategy

Andromeda's first spinning neutron star Decades of searching in the Milky Way's nearby 'twin' galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutron star, by ESA's XMM-Newton space tele ... more		Planet formation in Earth-like orbit around a young star The disks of dust and gas that surround young stars are the formation sites of planets. New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal never-before-seen details in th ... more		Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet - a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours. The map reveals extreme temperature s ... more
				Magnetar could have boosted explosion of extremely bright supernova Calculations by scientists have found highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars called magnetars could explain the energy source behind two extremely unusual stellar explosions. Stella ... more		'Smoothed' light will help search for Earth's twins Physicists of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed optical technology for the "correction" of light coming ... more

Military Network Modernization 2016 - Washington DC - April 25-27

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Pasadena CA - May 24-26, 2016

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The Moon thought to play a major role in maintaining Earth's magnetic field The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects us from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun. This shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge quantities o ... more		UWM to continue operating IceCube Neutrino Observatory The National Science Foundation has renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) to operate the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive particle detector bur ... more		Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape? Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist		INTEGRAL sets limits on gamma rays from merging black holes Following the discovery of gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite has revealed no simultaneous gamma rays, just as models predict. On 14 September, the ter ... more
Trigger for Milky Way's Youngest Supernova Identified Scientists have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF's Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in the Milky Way. They applied a n ... more		Electronic counterpart to ecological models revealed Predicting the future from the present - that's what logistic maps can do. For example, they can be used to predict the evolution of a population in the near future based on its present situation. ... more		Eindhoven and Mexican researchers prove Huygens was right In 1665 Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks, hung from the same wooden structure, will always oscillate in synchronicity. Today, some 350 years on, Eindhoven and Mexican researche ... more		Seeking the origin of gold in the universe So you think the gold in your ring or watch came from a mine in Africa or Australia? Well, think farther away. Much, much farther. Michigan State University researchers, working with colleagues from ... more

	Moon Mission: A Blueprint for the Red Planet A human colony of astronauts could be living on the Moon by 2022, thanks to modern technology making missions cheaper, according to NASA scientists. The Apollo program that lead to the first h ... more		Continuing the Search for Gravitational Waves In February, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced it had detected gravitational waves for the first time, confirming the last prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Somew ... more

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EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding 'embarrassment'

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First Discovery of a Binary Companion for a Type Ia Supernova

The wilds of the local group

Lockheed Martin Opens Space Fence Test Facility

NJIT researchers make a major cavefish discovery in Thailand

A view of the colorful microcosm within a proton

Tracing star formation rates in distant galaxies

Solar Wind Induces Jupiter's X-ray Aurora

Improving benchtop particle accelerators

Entanglement becomes easier to measure

Quantum simulation of a disordered system explain quantum many-particle problem

A New Way to Determine the Age of Stars

GRaND Seeks Subsurface Water Ice on Ceres

For bacteria, life in space is better than on Earth

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