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  Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 Astronomers have discovered microscopic gemstones surrounding three infant star systems in the Milky Way. Researchers believe tiny diamonds account for the shimmer of cosmic microwave light that has puzzled astronomers for 20 years. The shimmer is known as anomalous microwave emission, or AME. For decades, scientists have struggled to explain why the odd glow emanates from several of the galaxy's protoplanetary disks. Until now, scientists thought the most likely culprit was a type of ca ... read more |
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Data discrepancies may affect understanding of UniverseDallas TX (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 One of the unsolved mysteries in modern science is why the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating. Some scientists argue it is due to a theoretical dark energy that counteracts the pul ... more 
'Spooky action at a distance': Researchers develop module for quantum repeaterSaarland, Germany (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Communication using quantum states offers ultimate security, because eavesdropping attempts perturb the signal and would therefore not remain undetected. For the same reason, though, long-distance t ... more 
New tools reveal prelude to chaosSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 Picture a herd of sheep or cattle emerging from a shed or barn to graze a field. They head straight out of their digs to the pleasure of the pasture pretty much as one entity, but as the land opens ... more 
Dark inflation opens up a gravitational window onto the first moments after the Big BangWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Dark matter and dark energy may have driven inflation, the exponential expansion of the Universe moments after the Big Bang. A new cosmological model proposed by physicists at the University of Wars ... more |
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Chandra Scouts Nearest Star System for Possible HazardsBoston MA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 In humanity's search for life outside our solar system, one of the best places scientists have considered is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond our Sun. A new s ... more  
Surprising magnetic reconnection spotted on Saturn's daysideParis (ESA) Jun 11, 2018 Data from the international Cassini mission has revealed that a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection can occur on the dayside of Saturn, within the planet's magnetic environment. Reconnecti ... more 
Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universeLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 There is a calculation suggesting that only one in a thousand massive galaxies is a relic of the early universe, conserving intact the properties it had when it was formed thousands of millions of y ... more 
Tumultuous galaxy mergers better at switching on black holesBoulder CO (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder finds that violent crashes may be more effective at activating black holes than more peaceful mergers. When two galaxies collid ... more  
Scotland's space expertise key to gravitational waves studyEdinburgh UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 The UK, through the work of the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research and the Science and Technology Facilities Council's UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in Edinburgh, ... more |
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More Mystery Objects Found Near Milky Way's Black HoleKamuela HI (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Astronomers have discovered several bizarre objects at the galactic Center that are concealing their true identity behind a smoke screen of dust; they look like gas clouds, but behave like stars. ... more  |
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The disc of the Milky Way is bigger than we thoughtLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way have discs which are really thin, in which the major fraction of their stars are found. These discs are limited in size, so that beyond certain radius there are ... more  
How solar prominences vibrateLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 When we look at the surface of the Sun the solar prominences are seen as dark filaments that populate the disk or as a blaze of plasma above it. Solar prominences are very dense plasma structures th ... more 
Researchers discover multiple alkali metals in unique exoplanetLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 The extrasolar planet WASP-127b is one of the least dense exoplanets ever found. It has a radius 1.4 times greater than Jupiter, but only 20% of its mass. Such a planet has no analogue in the solar ... more 
Collisions Spray Heavy Elements Throughout Small GalaxiesPasadena CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Caltech scientists have found, for the first time, that merging pairs of neutron stars - the burnt-out cores of stars that have exploded - create the majority of heavy elements in small "dwarf" gala ... more 
The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizationsLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Finding life in other parts of the universe has been one of humanity's constant dreams. For the first time in history the scientific community has hopes based on some degree of possibility that this ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2018 
Ever since NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered about the origin of Jupiter's lightning. That encounter confirmed the existence of Jovian lightning, which had been theorized for centuries. But when the venerable explorer hurtled by, the data showed that the lightning-associated radio signals didn't match the details of the radio signals produced ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
In humanity's search for life outside our solar system, one of the best places scientists have considered is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond our Sun.
A new study that has involved monitoring of Alpha Centauri for more than a decade by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides encouraging news about one key aspect of planetary habitability.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2018 
Science operations for NASA's Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a growing dust storm on Mars.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter first detected the storm on Friday, June 1. As soon as the orbiter team saw how close the storm was to Opportunity, they notified the rover's team to begin preparing contingency plans.
In a matter of days, the storm had ballo ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.
A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet's relationship to the moon shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours. This is at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 
Caltech scientists have found, for the first time, that merging pairs of neutron stars - the burnt-out cores of stars that have exploded - create the majority of heavy elements in small "dwarf" galaxies. Heavy elements, such as silver and gold, are key for planet formation and even life itself. By studying these dwarf galaxies, the researchers hope to learn more about the primary sources of heav ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
To mark World Ocean Day, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) has increased ocean transparency by releasing the first-ever 'live' global view of likely transshipping at sea - a practice that can mask illegal fishing activity, and imagery of night-time fishing and its location, exposing vessels often hidden from other monitoring systems.
Data released on GFW's map reveals in near real-time the locati ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 
Once every month, on average, somewhere on Earth a fireball appears out of nowhere and for mere seconds, casts a blinding flash across the sky before it blows up in a thunderous explosion. It happened last Saturday over southern Africa, where a small space rock disintegrated in the night sky and - possibly - scattered debris on the ground, awaiting discovery by meteorite hunters.
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 La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 
When we look at the surface of the Sun the solar prominences are seen as dark filaments that populate the disk or as a blaze of plasma above it. Solar prominences are very dense plasma structures that levitate in the solar atmosphere.
It is generally believed that the star's magnetic field supports them so that they do not fall on the surface due to their own weight. These magnetic structu ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6.
The Aerospace Information Research Institute said the Miyun station of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station received the first batch of observation data from the Gaofen-6 satellite. There was ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2018
Caltech scientists have found, for the first time, that merging pairs of neutron stars - the burnt-out cores of stars that have exploded - create the majority of heavy elements in small "dwarf" galaxies. Heavy elements, such as silver and gold, are key for planet formation and even life itself. By studying these dwarf galaxies, the researchers hope to learn more about the primary sources of heav ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
University of Sydney researchers have found monkeys living in the wild in cold snowy habitats adjust their nutrient intake to match the elevated costs of thermoregulation.
China's Quinling mountains, high altitude temperate forests where winter temperatures commonly drop below 0 degrees Celsius and approximately 50 cm of snow covers the ground for several weeks in the winter, was the locat ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 08, 2018 
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has arrived at the International Space Station together with NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev, marking the start of Alexander's Horizons mission.
The trio were launched into space on 6 June at 11:12 GMT (13:12 CEST) in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
Because instruments were finally installed there, scientists can no longer say that East Antarctica is unusually seismically silent.
Since the first earthquake was detected in 1982, there have been just eight more seismic events recorded in East Antarctica. But after a team that included Amanda Lough, PhD - then a student but now an assistant professor in Drexel University's College of Art ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Last October, a University of California, Berkeley, team headed down to the Arizona desert, plopped their newest prototype water harvester into the backyard of a tract home and started sucking water out of the air without any power other than sunlight.
The successful field test of their larger, next-generation harvester proved what the team had predicted earlier in 2017: that the water har ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
The UK, through the work of the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research and the Science and Technology Facilities Council's UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in Edinburgh, will develop the optical benches for the European Space Agency's LISA mission (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). These optical benches are at the core of the laser interferometry measurement syste ... more |
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