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May 12, 2016

Asteroid Mining - What the Heck
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 12, 2016
The concept of commercializing space has become quite popular among entrepreneurs who sense that there are many possible profit-making opportunities awaiting adventurers willing to attempt exploitation of the last frontier. Over the past half-century few private companies have successfully exploited the space environment. The obvious winners so far have been communications companies that have established constellations uniquely suited to take advantage of outer space in order to provide services t ... read more

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Synchronized planets reveal clues to planet formation The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are so carefully timed that they provide long-term stability for their planetar ... more		Intense wind found in neighborhood of a black hole An international team of astrophysicists, including Professor Phil Charles from the University of Southampton, have detected an intense wind from one of the closest known black holes to the Earth. ... more		The hard knock life of Saturn's Epimetheus Life is hard for a little moon. Epimetheus, seen here with Saturn in the background, is lumpy and misshapen, thanks in part to its size and formation process. Epimetheus did not form with all of tho ... more
				Observing how microbes adapt in a spaceflight environment Many people know that the International Space Station is a unique microgravity research laboratory in low-Earth orbit where astronauts conduct experiments in biology, physics, astronomy and other fi ... more		When neutron stars emit gravitational waves Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam have developed an accurate model for the detection and interpretation of gravitational waves emitted by neutron stars in b ... more

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

NASA says 1,284 new planets found by Kepler telescope NASA on Tuesday announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of known exoplanets found with the Kepler space telescope. ... more		Kepler space telescope finds another 1284 exo planets NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets - the single largest finding of planets to date. "This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler," said Ellen St ... more		U.S. defense in free fall Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		Swept Up in the Solar Wind From our vantage point on the ground, the sun seems like a still ball of light, but in reality, it teems with activity. Eruptions called solar flares and coronal mass ejections explode in the sun's ... more
				Natural Causes, Not Aliens, Explain Mystery Star's Behavior Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a new study make it far less likely that KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby's star, is the home of industrious aliens who are gradually enclosing it in a va ... more		Sun's magnetic field during the grand minimum is in fact at its maximum The study of the Sun's long-term variation over a millennium by means of super computer modelling showed that during a time period of the Maunder Minimum type, the magnetic field may hide at the bot ... more

Human 2 Mars Conference May 17-19 2016 - Washington DC

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The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 7-9 - Las Vegas

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Enceladus jets: surprises in starlight During a recent stargazing session, NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas and dust that spews from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. At first, the data from that ob ... more		Silicate stardust traces histories of dust in the galaxy NASA scientists are revealing the histories of dust particles from dying stars that roved the Galaxy for millions of years before the sun and planets formed. These stardust grains survived the harsh ... more		GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems		First global topographic model of Mercury The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for sc ... more
'Starspot' images give insights into early sun Astronomers at the University of Michigan have taken close-up pictures of a nearby star that show starspots-sunspots outside our solar system. The researchers have used a technique called interferom ... more		Marshall simulates the solar and space environment to further exploration Inside inconspicuous Building 4605 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Todd Schneider is preparing to switch on the sun. He moves surely in a laboratory crowded by compute ... more		Bright dusty galaxies are hiding secret companions A new University of Sussex study has cleared the air on what lies behind hot dust visible in the distant universe. Researchers found that the glow of heated dust reaching our planet is frequently du ... more		Star with different internal driving force than the sun A star like the Sun has an internal driving in the form of a magnetic field that can be seen on the surface as sunspots. Now astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a distant sta ... more

	Exploring the mathematical universe team of more than 80 mathematicians from 12 countries has begun charting the terrain of rich, new mathematical worlds, and sharing their discoveries on the Web. The mathematical universe is filled w ... more		Atomic force microscope reveals molecular ghosts To the surprise of chemists, a new technique for taking snapshots of molecules with atomic precision is turning up chemicals they shouldn't be able to see. Chemical reactions take place so rap ... more

Ohio State scientists advance focus on nuclear propulsion

Mixing neutrinos of colliding neutron stars changes how merger unfolds

China launches experimental satellites to enhance mobile space internet

Building compact particle accelerators		Accelerating complex computer simulations: thinking beyond ones and zeros		Stochastic resonance, chaos transfer shown in microresonator		Comet craters - literal melting pots for life on Earth		Airbus Defence and Space to lead TeSeR, next EU project to clean up space
NASA sounding-rocket missions will explore coronal nanoflares		Three potentially habitable worlds found around nearby ultracool dwarf star		NMSU investigates phenomenon crucial for solar flare production		The 2016 Transit of Mercury		Scientists discover potentially habitable planets

Measuring a black hole 660 million times as massive as our sun

MIT compiles list of potential gases to guide search for life on exoplanets

UCI astronomers determine precise mass of a giant black hole

DSI and Luxembourg partner to commercialize space resources

Ground-breaking images of nearby star give new insight into Sun's infancy

Interstellar spacecraft sails could slam on Brakes for exoplanet flybys

NASA research gives new insights into how the Moon got inked

Winds a quarter the speed of light spotted leaving mysterious binary systems

Hybrid nanoantennas offer new platform for ultradense data recording

Light Echoes Give Clues to Protoplanetary Disk

Three Earth-sized planets

Fermi telescope helps link cosmic neutrino to blazar blast

Anyone can try IBM's powerful quantum computer

May meteors: Eta Aquarid shower peaks Thursday and Friday

Possible extragalactic source of high-energy neutrinos

Powerful Winds Spotted From Mysterious X-ray Binaries

Nearby supernova 30M years ago equaled detonation of 100 million suns

Russian Doll Galaxy Clusters Reveal Information About Dark Energy

Space Microscope to test universality of freefall

One minus 1 does not always equal 0 in chemistry

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