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  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 13, 2018 Scientists have deduced the existence of black holes from a multitude of experiments, theoretical models and indirect observations, such as the recent detection, by the LIGO and Virgo observatories, of gravitational waves, which are supposed to originate from the collision of two of these dark gravitational monsters. But there is a problem with black holes: they present an edge, called an event horizon, from which matter, radiation or anything that enters can no longer escape. This is in conflict ... read more |
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Magnetic fields could hold the key to star formationPreston, UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Astronomers have discovered new magnetic fields in space which could shed light on how stars are formed and uncover the mysteries behind one of the most famous celestial images. For the first time, ... more 
SwRI: Technology Selected for NASA Mission to Map Solar System BoundarySan Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 13, 2018 Southwest Research Institute will manage the payload and payload systems engineering for a new NASA mission that will sample, analyze and map particles streaming to Earth from the edge of interstell ... more 
Electrons take one step forward without two steps backRiverside CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have, for the first time, successfully used electric dipoles to completely suppress electron transfer in one direction while accelerating in t ... more 
One-way roads for spin currentsSingapore (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 The spin is a type of angular momentum which is intrinsic to particles, grosso modo as if they were spinning on themselves. Particles can exchange their spin, and in this way spin currents can be fo ... more |
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Researchers from the UPC and the IAC discover one of the most massive neutron starsLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Neutron stars (often called pulsars) are stellar remnants that have reached the end of their evolutionary life: they result from the death of a star of between 10 and 30 Solar masses. Despite their ... more 
20 years keeping an eye on R AquariiLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 In astronomical terms, at 600 light years away, the nebula around R Aquarii is rather close to us. The symbiotic star itself is made up of a red giant and a white dwarf which have interacted over ce ... more  
Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter LightningPasadena 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, ... more  
Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planetsLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 The information about these new exoplanets has been obtained from the data collected by the K2 mission of NASA's Kepler satellite, which started in November 2013. The work, which will be published i ... more 
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 |
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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  |
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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 
Hubble spots most distant star ever observedLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 If we could travel halfway across the Universe, we would find a huge star,christened Icarus, that was found after its discovery to be the most distant star from Earth. Normally, it would be impossib ... more 
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 
'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 |
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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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 Duryea, PA (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 
Half a century ago, materials specialists from SCHOTT used an ingenious process technology to develop ZERODUR, a special glass-ceramic with a coefficient of expansion of nearly zero. This property makes the material ideal for applications requiring the highest precision in fields such as astronomy, IC lithography, the semiconductor industry, metrology, and flat panel display production. In the m ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 13, 2018 
Less than three weeks after launch, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission has successfully completed its first mission phase and demonstrated the performance of the precise microwave ranging system that enables its unique measurements of how mass migrates around our planet.
The twin spacecraft launched May 22 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. N ... 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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 Williamstown MA (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
"During the August 21, 2017, solar eclipse, our dozens of telescopes and electronic cameras collected data during the rare two minutes at which we could see and study the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona," reported solar astronomer Jay Pasachoff to the American Astronomical Society, meeting in Denver during June 4-7. Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, discuss ... 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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Duryea, PA (SPX) Jun 08, 2018
Half a century ago, materials specialists from SCHOTT used an ingenious process technology to develop ZERODUR, a special glass-ceramic with a coefficient of expansion of nearly zero. This property makes the material ideal for applications requiring the highest precision in fields such as astronomy, IC lithography, the semiconductor industry, metrology, and flat panel display production. In the m ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
New, higher-quality assemblies of great ape genomes have now been generated without the guidance of the human reference genome. The effort to reduce "humanizing" discovery bias in great ape genomes provides a clearer view of the genetic differences that arose as humans diverged from other primates.
In the June 8 issue of Science, researchers report on improved orangutan and chimpanzee geno ... 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.
After 34 orbits of Eart ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
Understanding the thermal conditions of the ground in the Arctic is of utmost importance in order to assess the effects of climate change on the occurrence of permafrost, on the ecosystems and societies of Arctis, and the global climate system. Juha Aalto and Miska Luoto, researchers in natural geography at the University of Helsinki, participated in this study. The findings of the study have be ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
Scientists have predicted the dead zone, or area with little to no oxygen in the northern Gulf of Mexico, will become larger than the state of Connecticut by the end of July. The dead zone will cover about 6,620 square miles of the bottom of the continental shelf off Louisiana and Texas.
While there are more than 500 dead zones around the world, the northern Gulf of Mexico dead zone is the ... 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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