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September 02, 2016

Low-Cost Balloon-Borne Observatory Will Image Solar Sound Waves
San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 01, 2016
Southwest Research Institute will flight test a miniature solar observatory on a six-hour high-altitude balloon mission scheduled for the end of August. The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform (SSIPP) is a complete, high-precision solar observatory about the size of a mini fridge and weighing 160 pounds. "This novel, low-cost prototype was developed for less than $1 million, which is one-tenth the cost of other comparable balloon-borne observatories," said principal investigator Dr. Craig DeFo ... read more

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NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star For years, astronomers have puzzled over a massive star lodged deep in the Milky Way that shows conflicting signs of being extremely old and extremely young. Researchers initially classified the sta ... more		Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered A new record for the most distant galaxy cluster has been set using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. This galaxy cluster may have been caught right after birth, a brief, but im ... more		Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle ESA engineers have discovered that a solar panel on the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite was hit by a millimetre-size particle in orbit on 23 August. Thanks to onboard cameras, ground controllers we ... more
				Discovery one-ups Tatooine, finds twin stars hosting three giant exoplanets A team of Carnegie scientists has discovered three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar ''twins'' that are also effectively siblings of our Sun. One star hosts two planets and t ... more		Planck: First Stars Formed Later Than We Thought ESA's Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. This new analysis also shows t ... more

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NASA Extends Contract for Hubble Space Telescope Mission Operations NASA has awarded a contract extension to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation (LMSSC) of Greenbelt, Maryland, to continue maintaining the health and safety of the agency's Hubble Space Telescop ... more		Simple equation predicts force needed to push objects through sand For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you can trust a very simple equation to calculate the force required to push a shovel - and any other " ... more		Russia launches dozens of drones as Ukraine claims 'important success' Russian jets violate Estonian air space in 'brazen intrusion' U.S. defense in free fall		Argonne theorists solve a long-standing fundamental problem Trying to understand a system of atoms is like herding gnats - the individual atoms are never at rest and are constantly moving and interacting. When it comes to trying to model the properties and b ... more
				Scientists Observe Solar Eclipse's Effects on Weather When the Moon abruptly cuts off sunlight from Earth at a total solar eclipse, our weather reacts to the sudden darkness. A new issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, ... more		Dawn Sets Course for Higher Orbit After studying Ceres for more than eight months from its low-altitude science orbit, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will move higher up for different views of the dwarf planet. Dawn has delivered a we ... more

2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

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Could Proxima Centauri b Really Be Habitable The world's attention is now on Proxima Centauri b, a possibly Earth-like planet orbiting the closest star, 4.22 light-years away. The planet's orbit is just right to allow liquid water on its surfa ... more		Milky Way Had A Blowout Bash 6 Million Years Ago The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. But it wasn't always this way. A new st ... more		Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report		The Rise and Fall of Galaxy Formation An international team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Eric Persson, has charted the rise and fall of galaxies over 90 percent of cosmic history. Their work, which includes some of the most sens ... more
'Strong signal' stirs interest in hunt for alien life A "strong signal" detected by a radio telescope in Russia that is scanning the heavens for signs of extraterrestrial life has stirred interest among the scientific community. ... more		ALMA finds unexpected trove of gas around larger stars Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed dozens of young stars - some Sun-like and others approximately double that size - and discovered that the larger va ... more		Rosetta Captures Comet Outburst In unprecedented observations made earlier this year, Rosetta unexpectedly captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide. Nine of Rosetta's instruments, including it ... more		Irish researchers join international team to make a breakthrough in fundamental physics An international team of researchers have for the first time, discovered that in a very high magnetic field an electron with no mass can acquire a mass. Understanding why elementary particles e.g. e ... more

	6 million-year-old gas bubble eminating from Milky Way center Today, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is rather quiet. New research suggests its relative dormancy is recent. ... more		Scientists Discover A 'Dark' Milky Way Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter. The galaxy, Dragonfly 44, is located in the ... more

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