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  Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 21, 2016 In a paper published in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achievement features technological developments that open up a completely new era in high-precision antimatter research. It is the result of over 20 years of work by the CERN antimatter community. "Using a laser to observe a transition in antihydrogen and comparing it to hydrogen to see if they obey the same laws of physics has always been a key ... read more |
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Fluctuations in extragalactic gamma rays reveal two source classes but no dark matterResearchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the University of Amsterdam GRAPPA Center of Excellence just published the most precise analysis so far of the fluctuations in the gamm ... more  
Cassini offers a crash course in ring world orbital mechanicsIt may look as though Saturn's moon Mimas is crashing through the rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but Mimas is actually 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) away from the rings. ... more 
Astronomers release largest digital survey of the visible UniverseThe world's largest digital survey of the visible Universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released. The data has been made available by the international Pan-STARRS ... more 
It's a cosmic winter wonderland at NGC 6357Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in fact, a region called NGC 6357 where radiation from hot, young stars is energizing ... more |
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Pan-STARRS releases catalogue of 3 billion astronomical sourcesThe Pan-STARRS project, including astronomers at the Max Planck Institutes for Astronomy in Heidelberg and for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, is publicly releasing the world's largest digital ... more 
Betelgeuse spinning much faster than expected; may have swallowed a starAstronomer J. Craig Wheeler of The University of Texas at Austin thinks that Betelgeuse, the bright red star marking the shoulder of Orion, the hunter, may have had a past that is more interesting t ... more 
Texas A and M-Led Study Helps Prove Galaxy Evolution TheoryEveryone has a backstory, even our own Milky Way galaxy. And much like social media, the picture is not always as pretty as it appears on the current surface, says Texas A and M University astronome ... more  
Microlensing Study Suggests Most Common Outer Planets Likely Neptune-massA new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms ... more  
Ceres Offers Insight Into Prospects For Life in Early Solar SystemCeres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, is pocketed with cold, dark craters, several of which are layered in ice, raising the prospects that this frigid dwarf planet once had perhaps an o ... more |
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 Moore Foundation provides libraries with a millione solar-eclipse viewers 
Are planets like those in 'Star WarsIn the "Star Wars" universe, ice, ocean and desert planets burst from the darkness as your ship drops out of light speed. But these worlds might be more than just science fiction. Some of the ... more 
Astronomers discover dark past of planet-eating 'Death Star'An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Chicago, has made the rare discovery of a planetary system with a host star similar to Earth's sun. Especially intri ... more |
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This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights the seventh of eight features forming a 'string of pearls on Jupiter - massive counterclockwise rotating storms that appear as white ovals in the gas giant's southern hemisphere. Since 1986, these white ovals have varied in number from six to nine. There are currently eight white ovals visible.
The image was ta ... more Juno Mission Prepares for December 11 Jupiter Flyby Research Offers Clues About the Timing of Jupiter's Formation New Perspective on How Pluto's "Icy Heart" Came to Be |
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Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, has announced its first observations using the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.
Parkes joins the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, USA, and the Automated Planet Finder (APF) at Lick Ob ... more Search for ET underway with Parkes Radio Telescope Breakthrough Listen to Search for Intelligent Life Around Tabby's Star New bacteria groups, and stunning diversity, discovered underground |
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An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Chicago, has made the rare discovery of a planetary system with a host star similar to Earth's sun. Especially intriguing is the star's unusual composition, which indicates it ingested some of its planets.
"It doesn't mean that the sun will 'eat' the Earth any time soon," said Jacob Bean, assistant professor ... more Microlensing Study Suggests Most Common Outer Planets Likely Neptune-mass Are planets like those in 'Star Wars Exciting new creatures discovered on ocean floor |
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  The year 2016 has seen a rekindling of the human desire to conquer Mars, with public and private interests openly vying to take the first step on the Red Planet, possibly with a stopover on the Moon.
Space-faring nations are mostly united in viewing Mars as the next frontier with many still pooling their money and expertise to make the dream a reality, despite souring relations between them. ... more Opportunity performs several drives to ancient gully Full go-ahead for building ExoMars 2020 Skimming an alien atmosphere |
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The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the plane to the size of a molecule, would it still generate a shock wave?
Scientists such as University of Iowa physicist Jasper Halekas hope to answer that question by studying miniature shock waves on the moon. These sonic boomlets, physicists believe, ... more India Inc joins hands to bid for moon mission TeamIndus signs contract with ISRO for lunar mission Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin stable after South Pole health scare |
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Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in fact, a region called NGC 6357 where radiation from hot, young stars is energizing the cooler gas in the cloud that surrounds them.
This composite image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope (purple), infrared data from NASA's Spitze ... more Pan-STARRS releases catalogue of 3 billion astronomical sources Texas A and M-Led Study Helps Prove Galaxy Evolution Theory Betelgeuse spinning much faster than expected; may have swallowed a star |
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We would normally associate jet streams with the weather but, thanks to ESA's magnetic field mission, scientists have discovered a jet stream deep below Earth's surface - and it's speeding up.
Launched in 2013, the trio of Swarm satellites are measuring and untangling the different magnetic fields that stem from Earth's core, mantle, crust, oceans, ionosphere and magnetosphere.
Toget ... more Space-based lidar shines new light on plankton Revolutions in understanding the ionosphere, Earth's interface to space Researchers dial in to 'thermostat' in Earth's upper atmosphere |
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It all began innocently enough. Tyrone Daulton, a physicist with the Institute for Materials Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, was studying stardust, tiny specks of heat-resistant minerals thought to have condensed from the gases exhaled by dying stars. Among the minerals that make up stardust are tiny diamonds.
In 2007, Richard Kerr, a writer for the journal S ... more Ceres Offers Insight Into Prospects For Life in Early Solar System Studies refute hypothesis on what caused abrupt climate change thousands of years ago Rosetta's last words: science descending to a comet |
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The Space Science Institute was awarded a grant from the Moore Foundation that will provide 1.26 million solar viewing glasses and other resources for 1,500 public libraries across the nation. They will serve as centers for eclipse education and viewing for their communities.
The libraries will be selected through a registration process managed by the STAR Library Education Network (STAR_N ... more Preparing for the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Giving the Sun a brake Perspectives on magnetic reconnection |
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China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the largest missile maker in the country, is taking aim at 20 percent or more of the small-satellite launch contracts in the world by 2020, company executives said.
"We estimate that from 2017 to 2020, we will send aloft at least 10 solid-fuel carrier rockets each year, to send about 50 small satellites into orbit," said Guo Yong, president of the ... more China-made satellites in high demand Space exploration plans unveiled China launches 4th data relay satellite |
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Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in fact, a region called NGC 6357 where radiation from hot, young stars is energizing the cooler gas in the cloud that surrounds them.
This composite image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope (purple), infrared data from NASA's Spitze ... morePan-STARRS releases catalogue of 3 billion astronomical sourcesTexas A and M-Led Study Helps Prove Galaxy Evolution TheoryBetelgeuse spinning much faster than expected; may have swallowed a star |
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Bits of wood recovered from a 1.2-million-year-old tooth found at an excavation site in northern Spain indicate that the ancient relatives of man may have use a kind of toothpick. Toothbrushes were not around yet, if the amount of hardened tartar build-up is anything to go by.
An analysis of the tartar has now yielded the oldest known information about what our human ancestors ate and the ... more Neurons paralyze us during REM sleep Neanderthals visited seaside cave in England for 180,000 years Sex of prehistoric hand-stencil artists can be determined forensic analysis |
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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be the 11th European to perform a spacewalk when he ventures outside the International Space Station next month.
Lasting up to seven hours on 13 January, its goal is to ensure the power supply of the International Space Station from the 2500 sq m of solar panels.
The Station commander, Shane Kimbrough, will lead the spacewalk, accompanied by Thomas. ... more NASA's Exo-Brake 'Parachute' to Enable Safe Return for Small Spacecraft Trump sits down with tech execs, including criticsTrump sits down with tech execs, including critics |
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When the frozen Arctic tundra starts to thaw around June of each year, the snow melting and the ground softening, the soil may release a large pulse of greenhouse gases, namely, carbon dioxide and methane. Little has been known about such releases. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in collaboration with a team of other scientists takin ... more Satellites observe 'traffic jams' in Antarctic Ice Stream caused by tides Landsat provides global view of speed of iceGlobal warming is melting mountain glaciers: study |
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Without a doubt, the seahorse belongs to Darwin's "endless forms most beautiful". Its body form is one of a kind. It has neither a tail nor pelvic fin, it swims vertically, bony plates reinforce its entire body and it has no teeth, a rare feature in fish. Another peculiarity is that male seahorses are the ones to become pregnant.
The genome project, comprising six evolutionary biologists f ... more Ocean temperatures faithfully recorded in mother-of-pearl Former city managers face criminal charges in Flint water crisis A small change with a large impact |
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Professor Sudip Bhattacharyya of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, and Professor Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT, USA), an adjunct visiting professor at the same institute, have shown that a population of neutron stars should spin around their axes much faster than the highest observed spin rate of any neutron star.
They pointed out that the observed lower spin rate ... more LISA Pathfinder's pioneering mission continues Magnetic mirror could shed new light on gravitational waves Verlindes new theory of gravity passes first test |
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