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  Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it. Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student Paul Corlies, first author on "Titan's Topography and Shape at the End of the Cassini Mission." The map combin ... read more |
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Cassini finds Titan has 'sea level' like EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2018 Saturn's moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are ee ... 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 
Smartphones come in handy for the rare cosmic particles searchMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Researchers from the Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) at the Higher School of Economics have improved their way of analyzing ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with the use of ... more  
Viruses are everywhere, maybe even in spacePortland OR (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Viruses are the most abundant and one of the least understood biological entities on Earth. They might also exist in space, but as of yet scientists have done almost no research into this possibilit ... more |
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Meteoritic stardust unlocks timing of supernova dust formationWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Dust is everywhere - not just in your attic or under your bed, but also in outer space. To astronomers, dust can be a nuisance by blocking the light of distant stars, or it can be a tool to study th ... more 
North, east, south, west: The many faces of Abell 1758Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Resembling a swarm of flickering fireflies, this beautiful galaxy cluster glows intensely in the dark cosmos, accompanied by the myriad bright lights of foreground stars and swirling spiral galaxies ... more 
Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicistsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger detected last August has continued to brighten - much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took ... more 
A New Cosmic Accelerator: Turbulent Strong Electromagnetic FieldsThessaloniki, Greece (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 An important scientific discovery was made by the Aristotle University research team dealing with plasma astrophysics and high energy astrophysics, composed of the professor at the Physics Departmen ... more  
Odd behavior of star reveals lonely black hole hiding in giant star clusterMunich, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Astronomers using ESO's MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible bl ... more  
NASA team studies middle-aged sun by tracking motion of MercuryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding. It happens because the Sun's gravitational grip gradually weakens as our star ages and loses ... more 
How we created a mini 'gamma ray burst' in the lab for the first timeLondon, UK (The Conversation) Jan 19, 2018 Gamma ray bursts, intense explosions of light, are the brightest events ever observed in the universe - lasting no longer than seconds or minutes. Some are so luminous that they can be observed with ... more |
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 NASA, USGS confirm Michigan meteorite strike 
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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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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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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 Baltimore 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 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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A fascinating martian crater has been chosen to honour the German physicist and planetary scientist, Gerhard Neukum, one of the founders of ESA's Mars Express mission.
The International Astronomical Union named the 102 km-wide crater in the Noachis Terra region "Neukum" in September last year after the camera's leader, who died in 2014. Professor Neukum inspired and led the development of ... more |
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