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October 03, 2016

Regional Forecasts of Solar Storms Set to Begin Oct. 1
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 30, 2016
For the first time beginning next month, forecasts of the regional effects of solar storms will help protect the power grid and communications satellites, thanks to a new tool developed by researchers at the University of Michigan and Rice University. Solar storms are torrents of charged particles and electromagnetic fields from the Sun that rattle the planet's magnetic field. Major disturbances can send harmful current into power lines, hampering operations and putting expensive transformers at r ... read more

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Spiral Arms Embrace Young Star Swirling around the young star Elias 2-27 is a stunning spiral-shape pinwheel of dust. This striking feature, seen with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is the product of den ... more		NASA's Fermi Finds Record-Breaking Binary in Galaxy Next Door Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other facilities, an international team of scientists has found the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy and the most luminous one ever ... more		Rosetta: The end of a fairytale The European Space Agency bid a poignant farewell Friday to intrepid space explorers Philae and Rosetta, brought to "life" as loveable cartoon characters that it has had to abandon on a cold, dark c ... more
				Rosetta measures production of water at comet over two years Over the past two years, Rosetta has kept a close eye on many properties of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, tracking how these changed along the comet's orbit. A very crucial aspect concerns how mu ... more		Alice Ultraviolet Spectrograph Completes Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P After a two-year orbital tour around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft - carrying Southwest Research Institute's Alice ultraviolet spectrograph - will end its mission this we ... more

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

Rosetta's comet adventure in numbers Europe's ground-breaking quest to unravel the Solar System's mysteries concludes Friday with the Rosetta comet chaser crashlanding onto the cosmic wanderer's rocky surface. ... more		Farewell Rosetta: ESA Mission to Conclude on Comet's Surface The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission will come to a dramatic end on Friday, Sept. 30, with a controlled touchdown of the spacecraft on a region of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko known ... 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		Protoplanetary Disk Around a Young Star Exhibits Spiral Structure Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surface ... more
				ALMA catches stellar cocoon with curious chemistry A hot and dense mass of complex molecules, cocooning a newborn star, has been discovered by a Japanese team of astronomers using ALMA. This unique hot molecular core is the first of its kind to have ... more		Where Primordial Galaxies Lurk In the ongoing hunt for the universe's earliest galaxies, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has wrapped up its observations for the Frontier Fields project. This ambitious project has combined the powe ... more

6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

Nuclear Plant Digitalization Conference - Nov 15-16 - Charlotte NC USA

Discovery of an Extragalactic Hot Molecular Core Astronomers have discovered a 'hot molecular core,' a cocoon of molecules surrounding a newborn massive star, for the first time outside our galaxy. The discovery, which marks the first important st ... more		NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket Solves One Cosmic Mystery, Reveals Another In the last century, humans realized that space is filled with types of light we can't see - from infrared signals released by hot stars and galaxies, to the cosmic microwave background that comes f ... 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		Construction of Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Moves Forward LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its de ... more
New research undermines 'RNA world' of early evolution Did RNA evolve DNA, or did the two emerge simultaneously? Until recently, most scientists suggested the former, but new research undermines the theory, inspiring a team of scientists to suggest a second, alternative RNA-DNA origin story. ... more		Reconciling dwarf galaxies with dark matter Dwarf galaxies are enigmas wrapped in riddles. Although they are the smallest galaxies, they represent some of the biggest mysteries about our universe. While many dwarf galaxies surround our own Mi ... more		Fujitsu to supply Super-Kamiokande Experiment with new computers Fujitsu has received an order for an experiment-analysis system from Kamioka Observatory, part of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo. The system is destined for ... more		Astronomers discover dizzying spin of the Milky Way Halo Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the s ... more

	Rosetta spacecraft headed for comet suicide crash Europe's pioneering spacecraft Rosetta headed for a suicide crash Friday with the comet it has stalked for two years, nearing the end of an audacious quest to unravel the Solar System's mysteries. ... more		How to Merge Two Black Holes in a Simple Way If we had to choose the most important and newsworthy piece of science news for 2016, the discovery of gravitational waves would have every chance of winning first prize. The two signals that have b ... more

EU to fast-track review of 2035 combustion-engine ban

Norway sovereign wealth fund drops French miner over environmental fears

EU split on 2040 climate goal ahead of UN summit

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Hubble spots possible water plumes erupting on Jupiter's Moon Europa		Rosetta: The end of a space odyssey		Rosetta: How to end the fairytale		Universe is without direction, astronomers say		Galactic Fireworks Illuminate Monster Hydrogen Blob

Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars

Summer fireworks on Rosetta's comet

Messenger probe images fault scarps on Mercury's surface

Cosmology Safe as Universe Has No Sense of Direction

Yoyager's Golden Record not just for aliens anymore

ALMA uncovers "golden age" of galaxy formation in new Deep Field

NASA scientists find 'impossible' cloud on Titan

NASA to reveal 'surprising' activity on Jupiter's moon

Stellar activity can mimic misaligned exoplanets

JPL seeks robotic spacecraft development for Asteroid Redirect Mission

NASA's extends IRIS Space Observatory for deeper look at the Sun

Hubble Ultra Deep is deepest millimetre observation of Early Universe

Physicists reveal the role of diffusion in the early Universe

ALMA uncovers secrets of Giant Space Blob

In Rotating Galaxies normal matter precisely determines acceleration

New book links flow of time with Big Bang

RAVE complements Gaia with Fifth Data Release

Scientists teleport quantum information across four-mile cable

Introducing the Daily Minor Planet: delivering the latest asteroid news

Exploration Team Shoots for the Moon with Water-Propelled Satellite

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