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  Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. The object, about a dozen times more massive than Jupiter, is a surprisingly strong magnetic powerhouse and a "rogue," traveling through space unaccompanied by any parent star. "This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf , or 'failed star,' and is giving us some surprises that can po ... read more |
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Ready for Its Day in the Sun: The SWEAP InvestigationBoston MA (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 When NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will begin its journey to the Sun, our nearest star. The Parker Solar Probe will travel almost 90 million miles a ... more  
The Fading Ghost of a Long-Dead StarPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2018 Thin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova remnants in the Milky Way galaxy in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. A supernova "remnant" refe ... more 
Astronomers blown away by historic stellar blastWashington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 Imagine traveling to the Moon in just 20 seconds! That's how fast material from a 170 year old stellar eruption sped away from the unstable, eruptive, and extremely massive star Eta Carinae. A ... more 
Astronomers Uncover New Clues to the Star That Wouldn't DieBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2018 What happens when a star behaves like it exploded, but it's still there? About 170 years ago, astronomers witnessed a major outburst by Eta Carinae, one of the brightest known stars in the Mil ... more |
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MIDAS cameras spot pair of lunar flashes caused by meteoroid impactsWashington (UPI) Jul 30, 2018 New images from the European Space Agency showcased a pair of recent lunar flashes. ... more 
Parker Solar Probe and the birth of the solar windGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 31, 2018 This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun's outer atmosphere. Facing several-million-degr ... more 
Blue crystals in meteorites show that our sun went through the 'terrible twos'Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 31, 2018 Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the Sun is older than the Earth, it's hard to find physical objec ... more 
Stellar corpse reveals origin of radioactive moleculesGarching, Germany (SPX) Jul 31, 2018 Astronomers using ALMA and NOEMA have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space. The radioactive part of the molecule is an isotope of aluminium. The observ ... more 
At 60, NASA shoots for revival of moon glory daysTampa (AFP) July 27, 2018 Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade. ... more |
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Exoplanets where life could develop as on EarthCambridge UK (SPX) Aug 03, 2018 Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. The researchers, from the University of Camb ... more  |
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Exoplanet detectives create reference catalog of spectra and geometric albedosIthaca NY (SPX) Aug 02, 2018 Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using "light-fingerprints" instead of skin grooves to uncover the mysteries of exoplanets. Cor ... more 
Trapping light that doesn't bounce off track for faster electronicsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 03, 2018 Replacing traditional computer chip components with light-based counterparts will eventually make electronic devices faster due to the wide bandwidth of light. A new protective metamaterial "c ... more  
Demon in the details of quantum thermodynamicsSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 Thermodynamics is one of the most human of scientific enterprises, according to Kater Murch, associate professor of physics in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. "It has ... more 
A domestic electron ion collider would unlock scientific mysteries of atomic nucleiWashington DC (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 The science questions that could be answered by an electron ion collider (EIC) - a very large-scale particle accelerator - are significant to advancing our understanding of the atomic nuclei that ma ... more 
No sign of symmetronsVienna, Austria (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 One thing is certain: there's something out there we don't yet know. For years now scientists have been looking for "dark matter" or "dark energy" - with our current inventory of particles and force ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 02, 2018 
Successfully observing an object from more than four billion miles away is difficult, yet NASA's New Horizons mission team is banking that they can do that-again.
Preparations are on track for a final set of stellar occultation observations to gather as much information about the size, shape, environment, and other conditions around New Horizons' next flyby target, the ancient Kuiper Belt ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. The object, about a dozen times more massive than Jupiter, is a surprisingly strong magnetic powerhouse and a "rogue," traveling through space unaccompanied by any parent star.
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 London, UK (The Conversation) Aug 06, 2018 
Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technically challenging in several ways. Planetary protection rules and the difficulties of terraforming (making the planet hospitable by, for example, warming it up) and dealing with the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 30, 2018 
New images from the European Space Agency showcased a pair of recent lunar flashes.
Photographs of the flashes were captured using CCD cameras at a trio of observatories in Spain, which make up the MIDAS project. CCD stands for "charge coupled device."
Lunar flashes occur when space rocks collide with parts of the moon facing away from the sun. Because these parts of the moon are ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 31, 2018 
When two Sun-like stars collide, the result can be a spectacular explosion and the formation of an entirely new star. One such event was seen from Earth in 1670. It appeared to observers as a bright, red "new star."
Though initially visible with the naked eye, this burst of cosmic light quickly faded and now requires powerful telescopes to see the remains of this merger: a dim central star ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (SPX) Aug 03, 2018 
China on Tuesday launched Gaofen-11, an optical remote sensing satellite, as part of the country's high-resolution Earth observation project.
The Gaofen-11 satellite was launched on a Long March 4B rocket at 11 am Beijing Time from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province. It was the 282nd flight mission by a Long March carrier rocket.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2018 
With its dark, heavily cratered surface interrupted by tantalizing bright spots, Ceres may not remind you of our home planet Earth at first glance. The dwarf planet, which orbits the Sun in the vast asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is also far smaller than Earth (in both mass and diameter). With its frigid temperature and lack of atmosphere, we're pretty sure Ceres can't support life as w ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 
Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun's blazing surface.
Temperatures in the corona - the tenuous, outermost layer of the solar atmosphere - spike upwards of 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, while just 1,000 miles below, the underlying surface simmers at a balmy 10,000 F. How the Sun m ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 01, 2018 
China is expanding its presence in Latin America filling the gap left by the US, Argentinian foreign studies analyst Gustavo Cardozo told Sputnik. Besides solidifying its positions on the continent, China is seeking to become a major space power, according to the analyst.
China's space base in Argentina's Patagonia is making Washington feel unease amid Beijing's consistent expansion in Lat ... more |
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Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 31, 2018
When two Sun-like stars collide, the result can be a spectacular explosion and the formation of an entirely new star. One such event was seen from Earth in 1670. It appeared to observers as a bright, red "new star."
Though initially visible with the naked eye, this burst of cosmic light quickly faded and now requires powerful telescopes to see the remains of this merger: a dim central star ... more |
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 Jena, Germany (SPX) Aug 01, 2018 
Critical review of growing archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets relating to the Middle and Late Pleistocene (300-12 thousand years ago) hominin dispersals within and beyond Africa, published in Nature Human Behaviour, demonstrates unique environmental settings and adaptations for Homo sapiens relative to previous and coexisting hominins such as Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus. ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) Aug 4, 2018 
NASA on Friday named the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019 - a mix of novices and veterans who are tasked with restoring America's ability to send humans into orbit.
These pioneering flights to the International Space Station aboard commercially built crew capsules will be the first leaving US soil to put people into orbit since the iconic spa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2018 
When people think of the Arctic, snow, ice and polar bears come to mind. Trees? Not so much. At least not yet.
A new NASA-led study using data from the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) shows that carbon in Alaska's North Slope tundra ecosystems spends about 13 percent less time locked in frozen soil than it did 40 years ago. In other words, the carbon cycle there is speeding ... more |
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 Santiago (AFP) Aug 2, 2018  Tourists wishing to travel to Easter Island can now only stay a maximum of 30 days, after local authorities implemented Wednesday a measure to regulate population growth threatening the remote Chilean territory's environmental sustainability.
Despite its isolated location some 3,500 kilometers (2,000 miles) from the coast of mainland Chile the island is a popular tourist destination, not lea ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 
Observations made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have, for the first time, detected the effects of general relativity predicted by Einstein, in the movement of a star passing into the intense gravitational field of Sagittarius A*, a massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
These results were obtained by the GRAVITY consortium, led b ... more |
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