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  Washington (UPI) Jan 17, 2018 Both NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have confirmed that a meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere above southeastern Michigan on Tuesday night. The meteorite created a fiery streak seen as far away as New York City, as well as a loud boom heard by many in the Detroit area. Eyewitness accounts suggest the meteor moved northwest across the suburbs of Detroit. The event was captured by dash and security cams. "We have calculated that this was a very slow moving meteor - speed of a ... read more |
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Applications now open for the Space Debris Training CourseParis (ESA) Jan 18, 2018 Space debris is a hazard to our satellites and spacecraft as well as a contributor to near-Earth space pollution. To help raise awareness of this issue, ESA's Education Office is organising the firs ... more  
Redshift space distortions measured by quasars in scientific firstBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), the world's largest galaxy survey, is part of Phase IV of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a major multi-spectral imaging and spectr ... more  
JUICE ground control gets green light to start developmentParis (ESA) Jan 17, 2018 ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparation of ... more 
Study identifies processes of rock formed by meteors or nuclear blastsSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Coesite is a polymorph of silica that only forms under extremely high pressure - 10,000 times more on average than normal atmospheric pressure. The presence of this rock at a site indicates either t ... more |
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Russian company declassifies 1973 report on Lunokhod-2 lunar roverMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 17, 2018 Space equipment manufacturer Russian Space Systems declassified on Tuesday a report on unmanned lunar rover Lunokhod-2 and its 1973 Moon landing mission. The document describes all aspects of ... more  
Astronomers Measure More Black Holes, Farther AwayBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Today, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced new measurements of the masses of a large sample of supermassive black holes far beyond the local universe. The results, b ... more  
NASA study shows disk patterns can self-generateGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 When exoplanet scientists first spotted patterns in disks of dust and gas around young stars, they thought newly formed planets might be the cause. But a recent NASA study cautions that there may be ... more 
Black hole spin cranks-up radio volumeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high-speed jets blasting radio waves and other radiation acros ... more 
Hubble weighs in on mass of three million billion sunsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns - so it's little wonder that it ha ... more 
How massive can neutron stars beFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Since their discovery in the 1960s, scientists have sought to answer an important question: How massive can neutron stars actually become? By contrast to black holes, these stars cannot gain in mass ... more 
Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion NebulaBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population ... more |
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 Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolve 
What Stars Will Hatch from the Tarantula Nebula?Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 To have a full picture of the lives of massive stars, researchers need to study them in all stages - from when they're a mass of unformed gas and dust, to their often dynamic end-of-life explosions. ... more 
Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant GalaxyPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2018 An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stret ... more 
Hubble probes the archeology of our Milky Way's ancient hubBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 For many years, astronomers had a simple view of our Milky Way's central hub, or bulge, as a quiescent place composed of old stars, the earliest homesteaders of our galaxy. However, because th ... more |
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GBT detection unlocks exploration of 'aromatic' interstellar chemistryCharlottesville VA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 Astronomers had a mystery on their hands. No matter where they looked, from inside the Milky Way to distant galaxies, they observed a puzzling glow of infrared light. This faint cosmic light, which ... more 
Possible Lava Tube Skylights Discovered Near the North Pole of the MoonMountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes ... more 
Scientists take viewers to the center of the Milky WayHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 A new visualization provides an exceptional virtual trip - complete with a 360-degree view - to the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This project, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... more 
Space telescopes provide 3-D journey through Orion NebulaBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) and Spitzer (http://www.spitze ... more 
Space Traffic ManagementBethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Those familiar with air traffic management architectures understand the constraints of aircraft flying in the atmosphere, vehicle dynamics and command and control techniques. Unfortunately, space tr ... more 
Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to EarthBerkeley CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system's asteroid belt for billions of years, share something else in common: the ingredients for li ... more 
Extremely bright and fast light emissionZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 An international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, IBM Research Zurich, Empa and four American research institutions have found the explanation for why a class of nanocrystals that has been inten ... more |
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Organic molecule benzonitrile detected in spaceWashington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Scientists studying a cold molecular cloud of the Taurus region with radio telescopes have detected the presence of a particular organic molecule called benzonitrile. The finding marks the first tim ... more 
Researchers catch supermassive black hole burpingBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping" - not once, but twice. CU Boulder Assistant Profess ... more  
Magnetic coil springs accelerate particles on the SunGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Why does the Sun sometimes accelerate preferentially helium-3 and iron into space? Researchers have for the first time observed helical solar flares as a source. In April and July 2014, the Su ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2018 
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparation of the spacecraft operations needed to achieve the mission's ambitious science goals.
Planned to launch in 2022, JUICE will embark on a 7.5-year long journey through the Solar System before arrivi ... more |
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In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey stars, researchers not only found several very-low-mass brown dwarf companions, but also three giant planets. They ... more |
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 Miami (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 
Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday.
Although ice has long been known to exist on Mars, a better understanding of its depth and location could be vital to future human explorers, said the report in the US journal Science.
"Astronauts could essentially just ... more |
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