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  Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 CU Boulder researchers have discovered a mechanism that explains the persistence of asymmetrical stellar clusters surrounding supermassive black holes in some galaxies and suggests that during post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars could be flung into the black hole and destroyed at a rate of one per year. The research, which was recently published in The Astrophysical Journal, also suggests an answer to a longstanding astronomical mystery about the behavior of eccentric stellar orbits nea ... read more |
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UChicago astrophysicists settle cosmic debate on magnetism of planets and starsChicago IL (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 The universe is highly magnetic, with everything from stars to planets to galaxies producing their own magnetic fields. Astrophysicists have long puzzled over these surprisingly strong and long-live ... more  
HINODE captures record breaking solar magnetic fieldTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 Magnetism plays a critical role in various solar phenomena such as flares, mass ejections, flux ropes, and coronal heating. Sunspots are areas of concentrated magnetic fields. A sunspot usually cons ... more  
Cosmic x-rays may provide clues to the nature of dark matterMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles, which do not emit light and are therefore invisible ... more 
Microlensing unveils extragalactic planetsNorman OK (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing - an astronomical phenomenon and the only known m ... more |
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UCF Seeks New Way to Mine Moon for WaterOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 UCF's Phil Metzger and Julie Brisset from the Florida Space Institute recently landed a contract to develop a model to mine the moon for water. Data suggests the moon has water locked away in ... more 
India Prepares For Second Lunar Mission with Chandrayaan-2New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 08, 2018 India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), is prepping for its second mission to the moon, which is scheduled for blast off around April 2018. The objective for the v ... more  
Two Small Asteroids Safely Pass Earth This WeekPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2018 Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week. The f ... more 
Viruses are falling from the skyVancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere - and falling from it - according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S. The study marks t ... more  
Researchers take terahertz data links around the bendProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 An off-the-wall new study by Brown University researchers shows that terahertz frequency data links can bounce around a room without dropping too much data. The results are good news for the feasibi ... more |
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 Quantum cocktail provides insights on memory control 
Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulationsIrvine, CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light-years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting t ... more  |
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Black holes regulate star formation in massive galaxiesCanary Islands, Spain (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 The centres of massive galaxies are among the most exotic regions in the universe. They harbour supermassive black hole, with masses of at least one million, and reaching thousands of millions of ti ... more 
What the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Could Look LikeBern, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Researchers at the University of Bern are providing the most precise calculations so far of the masses of the seven planets around the star TRAPPIST-1. From this, new findings are emerging about the ... more 
Hubble offers first atmospheric data of exoplanets orbiting Trappist-1Garching, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look for atmospheres around four Earth-sized planets orbiting within or near TRAPPIST-1's habitable zone. The new ... more 
What's behind the most brilliant lights in the skyMadison WI (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the bigg ... more  
Acoustic tractor beam could pave the way for levitating humansBristol UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Acoustic tractor beams use the power of sound to hold particles in mid-air, and unlike magnetic levitation, they can grab most solids or liquids. For the first time University of Bristol engineers h ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
A star about 100 light years away in the Pisces constellation, GJ 9827, hosts what may be one of the most massive and dense super-Earth planets detected to date according to new research led by Carnegie's Johanna Teske. This new information provides evidence to help astronomers better understand the process by which such planets form.
The GJ 9827 star actually hosts a trio of planets, disc ... more |
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 Hong Kong (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because the surface contains numerous familiar features such as dried river channels and dried lake beds that hint at a warmer, wetter, more earthlike climate in the past.
However, Dr Joseph Michalski of the Department of Earth Sciences and Laboratory f ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
A study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers provides new insight into the Moon's excessive equatorial bulge, a feature that solidified in place over four billion years ago as the Moon gradually distanced itself from the Earth.
The research sets parameters on how quickly the Moon could have receded from the Earth and suggests that the nascent planet's hydrosphere was either no ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometers over a standard fiber optic telecommunications network and used to synchronize two radio telescopes. Stable frequency references, which are used to calibrate clocks and instruments that make ultraprecise measurements, are usually only accessible at facilities t ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) signed a 25M pounds contract in Beijing yesterday with Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd (21AT) to provide data from a new Earth Observation satellite (SSTL-S1) due for launch on PSLV in the middle of this year.
The contract was signed by Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL, and Mme Wu Shuang, President and Chairman of 21A ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2018 
Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week.
The first of this week's close-approaching asteroids - discovered by CSS on Feb. 4 - is designated asteroid 2018 CC. Its close approach to Earth came Tuesday (Feb. 6) at 12:10 p.m. PST (3:10 p.m. EST) at a ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
Magnetism plays a critical role in various solar phenomena such as flares, mass ejections, flux ropes, and coronal heating. Sunspots are areas of concentrated magnetic fields. A sunspot usually consists of a circular dark core (the umbra) with a vertical magnetic field and radially-elongated fine threads (the penumbra) with a horizontal field.
The penumbra harbors an outward flow of gas al ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 
Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Wednesday.
Zhang made the remarks at a seminar while listening to reports delivered by Chinese taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang and Deng Qingming about their work over the years.
The Taikonaut Corps of the People's Libe ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2018
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometers over a standard fiber optic telecommunications network and used to synchronize two radio telescopes. Stable frequency references, which are used to calibrate clocks and instruments that make ultraprecise measurements, are usually only accessible at facilities t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 
What is the evolutionary origin of humans' social intelligence?
Earth is home to thousands of species that prove complex language, social bonding and cooperation aren't inevitable or even necessary for survival. And yet, the planet's most successful species is also its most socially intelligent and complex.
What set us on this course? What jumpstarted mankind's divergence from pr ... more |
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 Turin, Italy (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
NanoRacks reports that Thales Alenia Space has been chosen as the latest partner in its commercial airlock program.
Thales Alenia Space will produce and test the critical pressure shell for NanoRacks' Airlock Module, which is targeting to be launched to the International Space Station late 2019, and will be used to deploy commercial and government payloads. Thales Alenia Space will also ma ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows that the changing topography of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere during the last Ice Age forced changes in the climate of Antarctica, a previously undocumented inter-polar climate change mechanism.
The new study - published in the journal Nature and co-authored by researchers at the University of Bristol, University of Washi ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane.
Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine how a submarine might work on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons and the second largest in the solar system. The space agency plans to launch a real submarine into Titan seas in the next ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
Acoustic tractor beams use the power of sound to hold particles in mid-air, and unlike magnetic levitation, they can grab most solids or liquids. For the first time University of Bristol engineers have shown it is possible to stably trap objects larger than the wavelength of sound in an acoustic tractor beam. This discovery opens the door to the manipulation of drug capsules or micro-surgical im ... more |
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