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Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017 Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval. The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system's largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby. The images of the Great Red Spot were downlinked from the spacecraft's memory on Tuesday and placed on the mission's JunoCam website Wednesday morning. "For hundreds of years scientists have been observing ... read more |
The BepiColombo spacecraft is ready to solve the many mysteries of MercuryLondon, UK (The Conversation) Jul 13, 2017 The 1.65 billion euro BepiColombo spacecraft is now being unstacked for final tests after being displayed in its launch configuration to the world's press at the European Space Agency's Space Techno ... more
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory sees sunspot turn toward EarthWashington (UPI) Jul 11, 2017 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space probe dedicated to the study of the sun, has captured footage of a sunspot rotating towards Earth. ... more
Big, shape-shifting animals from the dawn of timeCambridge UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 Why did life on Earth change from small to large when it did? Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have determined how some of the first large organisms ... more
A future without fakes thanks to quantum technologyLancaster UK (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 Counterfeit products are a huge problem - from medicines to car parts, fake technology costs lives. Every year, imports of counterfeited and pirated goods around the world cost nearly US $0.5 ... more |
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Juno Completes Flyby over Jupiter's Great Red SpotPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2017 NASA's Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit. All of Juno's science instruments and the spacecraft's JunoCam were operatin ... more
Astronomers Track the Birth of a 'Super-Earth'Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 A new model giving rise to young planetary systems offers a fresh solution to a puzzle that has vexed astronomers ever since new detection technologies and planet-hunting missions such as NASA's Kep ... more
Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear SmallerPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2017 In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density. A low density tells scientists a planet is more likely to be gaseous like Jupiter, and a high ... more
Odd planetary system around fast-spinning star doesn't quite fit existing models of planet formationHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 Astronomers have discovered a rare, warm, massive Jupiter-like planet orbiting a star that is rotating extremely quickly. The discovery raises puzzling questions about planet formation - neither the ... more
Smallest-Ever Star Discovered by AstronomersCambridge, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 The smallest star yet measured has been discovered by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge. With a size just a sliver larger than that of Saturn, the gravitational pull at its st ... more
Heart of an exploded star observed in 3-DCharlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 11, 2017 Supernovas - the violent endings of the brief yet brilliant lives of massive stars - are among the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos. Though supernovas mark the death of stars, they also trigger ... more |
![]() Cosmic 'dust factory' reveals clues to how stars are born
Improved representation of solar variability in climate modelsKiel, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 How much do solar cycle variations influence our climate system? Could the rising Earth temperatures due to anthropogenic effects partly be compensated by a reduction of solar forcing in the future? ... more
NASA spacecraft to fly over Jupiter's Great Red SpotMiami (AFP) July 10, 2017 An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet's Great Red Spot. ... more
Pitted Materials in Craters Could Indicate Buried Ice on AsteroidsTucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and are likely formed through the rapid evaporation of subsurface H2O, a new paper by Planetary Sci ... more
A cosmic barbecue: Researchers spot 60 new 'hot Jupiter' candidatesNew Haven CT (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 Yale researchers have identified 60 potential new "hot Jupiters" - highly irradiated worlds that glow like coals on a barbecue grill and are found orbiting only 1% of Sun-like stars. Hot Jupit ... more |
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Miami (AFP) July 10, 2017
An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet's Great Red Spot.
The flyby of the Juno spacecraft, surveilling the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm, is scheduled for 9:55 pm Monday (0155 GMT Tuesday).
"Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably th ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2017Juno Completes Flyby over Jupiter's Great Red Spot Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 13, 2017New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis |
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Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Jul 07, 2017
In a paper highlighted by Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, a team2 of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA3) discovered observational evidence for the existence of two distinct populations of giant planets.
So far, more than 3500 planets have been detected orbiting solar type stars. Although recent results suggest that most planets in our Galaxy are roc ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2017Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Astronomers Track the Birth of a 'Super-Earth' Cambridge UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Big, shape-shifting animals from the dawn of time |
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017
The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's slope.
Since before Curiosity's landing five years ago next month, this feature has been recognized as one of four unique terrains on lower Mount Sharp and therefore a key mission destination. Curiosity's science team informal ... more Paris (AFP) July 6, 2017Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought: study Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2017Mars Rover Opportunity continuing science campaign at Perseverance Valley Washington (UPI) Jun 29, 2017The Niagara Falls of Mars once flowed with lava |
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Paris (ESA) Jul 07, 2017
During a simulated space mission underwater last week, ESA tested an ingenious concept to bring astronauts safely back to base if they are incapacitated during lunar exploration.
Four 'aquanauts', including ESA astronaut Pedro Duque and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, took part in NASA's 22nd Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO-22) mission, spending 10 days in the Aquarius habitat ... more Tokyo (Sputnik) Jun 29, 2017Japanese Space Agency Proposes Plan to Send Astronauts to Moon Tokyo (AFP) June 30, 2017Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030 Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 16, 2017Russian aerospace firm to cooperate with China on Lunar exploration missions |
Cambridge UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017
A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy - which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way - are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and computer simulations to demonstrate that these stellar sprinters originate ... more Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Smallest-Ever Star Discovered by Astronomers Garching, Germany (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Australia Enters Strategic Partnership with European Southern Observatory Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 11, 2017Heart of an exploded star observed in 3-D |
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Newcastle UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017
Researchers are using satellite data to accurately map the movement of the earth before a landslide in a bid to develop a life-saving early warning system.
The team from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) have been tracking the devastating events of last week when a massive landslide ... more Corvallis OR (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Study finds Earth's magnetic field 'simpler than we thought' Paris (ESA) Jul 07, 2017See our seasons change from space Boston MA (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Computer vision techniques shed light on urban change |
Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2017
Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and are likely formed through the rapid evaporation of subsurface H2O, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Hanna G. Sizemore says.
"Pitted terrains may be common morphological markers of volatile-rich near-surface material in the asteroid belt," Sizemore said.
... more Orlando FL (SPX) Jul 06, 2017Bizarro comet challenging researchers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 07, 2017NASA'S First Asteroid Deflection Mission Enters Next Design Phase Paris (AFP) June 28, 2017Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'? |
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Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017
How much do solar cycle variations influence our climate system? Could the rising Earth temperatures due to anthropogenic effects partly be compensated by a reduction of solar forcing in the future?
These questions have been in the focus of climate research for a long time. In order to answer these questions as precisely as possible, it is required to know the fluctuations of solar forcing ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2017NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory sees sunspot turn toward Earth Hull UK (SPX) Jul 06, 2017Musical Sun Reduces Range of Magnetic Activity Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 06, 2017Scientists uncover origins of the Sun's swirling spicules |
Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon |
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Cambridge UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017
A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy - which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way - are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and computer simulations to demonstrate that these stellar sprinters originate ... more Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Smallest-Ever Star Discovered by Astronomers Garching, Germany (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Australia Enters Strategic Partnership with European Southern Observatory Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 11, 2017Heart of an exploded star observed in 3-D |
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2017
DARPA has awarded contracts to five research organizations and one company that will support the Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program: Brown University; Columbia University; Fondation Voir et Entendre (The Seeing and Hearing Foundation); John B. Pierce Laboratory; Paradromics, Inc.; and the University of California, Berkeley.
These organizations have formed teams to develop the ... more Jena, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017DNA of early Neanderthal gives timeline for new modern human-related dispersal from Africa Laramie WY (SPX) Jul 03, 2017Researchers document early, permanent human settlement in Andes Lawrence KS (SPX) Jul 03, 2017Analysis of Neanderthal teeth grooves uncovers evidence of prehistoric dentistry |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2017
Founded in 2009, the Houston, Texas-based company NanoRacks LLC provides commercial hardware and services onboard the International Space Station (ISS) for government and commercial customers. To date, the firm has sent more than 550 payloads from over 30 countries to ISS, creating trends in commercial hardware in space. In an interview with Astrowatch.net, Jeffrey Manber, the founder and CEO of ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 10, 2017Counting calories in space Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 9, 2017Trump offers bold space goals but fills in few details Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 9, 2017Liftoff for Trump's bold space plans may have to wait |
Paris (ESA) Jul 13, 2017
Over the last few months, a chunk of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf has been hanging on precariously as a deep crack cut across the ice. Witnessed by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, a lump of ice more than twice the size of Luxembourg has now broken off, spawning one of the largest icebergs on record and changing the outline of the Antarctic Peninsula forever.
The fissure first appeare ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 13, 2017Massive iceberg Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Microbe study highlights Greenland ice sheet toxicity Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Warm Winter Events in Arctic Becoming More Frequent, Lasting Longer |
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Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017
Climate change could turn one of Africa's driest regions into a very wet one by suddenly switching on a Monsoon circulation. For the first time, scientists find evidence in computer simulations for a possible abrupt change to heavy seasonal rainfall in the Sahel, a region that so far has been characterized by extreme dryness.
They detect a self-amplifying mechanism which might kick-in beyo ... more Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Strengthening of West African Monsoon during Green Sahara period may have affected ENSO Columbus OH (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Scientists make 'squarest' ice crystals ever Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Bacteria collaborate to propel the ocean 'engine' |
Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017
A state-of-the-art telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - built and operated by an international research collaboration, led by the University of Warwick - has been officially launched.
The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) was inaugurated at Warwick's astronomical observing facility in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory of the Instituto ... more Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2017LISA Gravitational-Wave Observatory Selected as ESA L3 Mission Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 29, 2017Hints of Extra Dimensions in Gravitational Waves |
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