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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2018 On Dec. 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA's Juno spacecraft will be 3,140 miles (5,053 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops and hurtling by at a healthy clip of 128,802 mph (207,287 kilometers per hour). This will be the 16th science pass of the gas giant and will mark the solar-powered spacecraft's halfway point in data collection during its prime mission. Juno is in a highly-elliptical 53-day orbit around Jupiter. Each orbit includes a close passage over the planet's cloud deck, ... read more |
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Look up at a green, fuzzy comet and shooting starsCanberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 Amateur astronomers will be treated to two great spectacles this Friday night: a green, fuzzy comet - which appears only once every five years - and shooting stars, known as the Geminid meteor showe ... more  
Common ground discovered in planet-forming disksHouston TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 A distant star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas has given up more of its secrets to a team led by a Rice University astronomer. And it's in good company. Rice astronomer And ... more  
Astroscale enters technical cooperation with European Space AgencyLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 Astroscale UK Ltd has signed an agreement with ESA to exchange data and expertise related to space debris collision avoidance, environmental monitoring of debris and the development of monitoring te ... more 
Supercomputers without waste heatKonstanz, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 Generally speaking, magnetism and the lossless flow of electrical current ("superconductivity") are competing phenomena that cannot coexist in the same sample. However, for building supercomputers, ... more |
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Instrument on NASA probe finds hydrated minerals on Asteroid BennuTempe AZ (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, newly arrived at asteroid Bennu, has found strong spectral evidence that the asteroid's rocks have undergone interactions with water at some point in their history. ... more  
We're all ears as Voyager 2 goes InterstellarSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, is supporting NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it enters interstellar space - becoming only the second spacecraft, after its twin Voyager 1, to reach this m ... more 
The epoch of planet formation, times twentyCharlottesville VA (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is still a great deal we do not know about t ... more 
NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar SpacePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2018 For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA's Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere - the protective bubble of particles and magnetic f ... more 
First Images from OSIRIS-REx Have Scientists Buzzing with ExcitementOrlando FL (SPX) Dec 11, 2018 The holidays came early for the science team leading NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid. Monday they announced findings from the mission thus far, which arrived ... more |
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Learning from lunar lightsParis (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA's 'NELIOTA' project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface - the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected rock ... more  |
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NASA's Voyager 2 reaches interstellar spaceWashington (AFP) Dec 10, 2018 NASA's Voyager 2 probe has left the protective bubble around the Sun and is flying through interstellar space, becoming the second human-made object to travel so far, the US space agency said Monday. ... more 
OSIRIS-REx already finds water on Asteroid BennuWashington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2018 Recently analyzed data from NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up ... more 
Helium exoplanet inflated like a balloon, research showsExeter UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which has swollen to resemble an inflated balloon. An international team of researchers, including J ... more  
Researchers create tiny droplets of early universe matterBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 11, 2018 Researchers have created tiny droplets of the ultra-hot matter that once filled the early universe, forming three distinct shapes and sizes: circles, ellipses and triangles. The study, publish ... more 
Researchers develop mathematical solver for analog computersNotre Dame IN (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 Your computer performs most tasks well. For word processing, certain computations, graphic arts and web surfing, the digital box on your desk is the best tool for the job. But the way your computer ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
With just 29 days to go before making space exploration history, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performed a short but record-setting course-correction maneuver on Dec. 2 that refined its path toward Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt object it will fly by on Jan. 1.
Just as the exploration of Ultima Thule will be the farthest-ever flyby of a planetary body, Sunday's maneuver was the most distan ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is still a great deal we do not know about the birth of planets and the precise cosmic recipes that spawn the wide array of planetary bodies we have already uncovered, including so-called hot Jupiters, massive rocky worlds, icy dwarf planets, a ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2018 
NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie - a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA's Curiosity rover mission, in which many overlapping pictures are taken and later stitched together. Visible in the selfie are the lander's solar panel and its entire deck, including its science instruments ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 
Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA's 'NELIOTA' project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface - the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected rocky neighbour at vast speed. Based at the Kryoneri telescope of the National Observatory of Athens, this important project is now being extended to January 2021.
Impact flashes are referred to as ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
In findings published in The Astrophysical Journal, University of Texas at Austin astronomers report that they have stumbled on an extraordinary galaxy that may corroborate a recently contested theory about dark matter.
Dark matter is matter that does not give off any light, but is detectable by its gravitational pull on other matter. It was first discovered in the 1970s in studies of spir ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 06, 2018 
Measurements of atmospheric ozone from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality.
Launched in October 2017, Copernicus Sentinel-5P - short for Sentinel-5 Precursor - is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It is part of the fleet of Copernicus Sentinel missions that ESA develops for the European Union's envir ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2018  Recently analyzed data from NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up its scientific target, the asteroid Bennu.
During the mission's approach phase, between mid-August and early December, the spacecraft traveled 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km) on its journey f ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
Weeks after Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever approach to a star, the science data from the first solar encounter is just making its way into the hands of the mission's scientists. It's a moment many in the field have been anticipating for years, thinking about what they'll do with such never-before-seen data, which has the potential to shed new light on the physics of our star, the Sun. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 13, 2018 
China's Chang'e-4 probe decelerated and entered the lunar orbit Wednesday, completing a vital step on its way to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced.
After flying about 110 hours from earth, an engine on the probe was ignited when it was 129 km above the surface of the moon, in line with instructions sent fr ... more |
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Austin TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2018
In findings published in The Astrophysical Journal, University of Texas at Austin astronomers report that they have stumbled on an extraordinary galaxy that may corroborate a recently contested theory about dark matter.
Dark matter is matter that does not give off any light, but is detectable by its gravitational pull on other matter. It was first discovered in the 1970s in studies of spir ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 11, 2018 
From ankle-deep mud in Central Asia to the scorching heat of Australia, Mina Guli is running 100 marathons in 100 days to highlight a looming global water shortage.
The 48-year-old Australian is galloping across the planet, 42 kilometres (26 miles) at a time, with barely a moment to adjust her watch before it's on to the next stop.
Her unorthodox world tour began in New York on November ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
A winged spacecraft will soon take off with four NASA-supported technology experiments onboard. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo will separate from the WhiteKnightTwo twin-fuselage carrier aircraft and continue its rocket-powered test flight.
The flight, scheduled for no earlier than Dec. 13, is Virgin Galactic's first mission for NASA. The agency's Flight Opportunities program helped the fo ... more |
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 Everest, Nepal (AFP) Dec 11, 2018 
Formed in the shadow of Mount Everest, the turquoise depths of Nepal's Imja glacial lake would be a breathtaking miracle of nature to behold - were they not a portent of catastrophic floods.
Scientists warn that as climate change causes Himalayan glaciers to melt at an alarming rate, lakes like Imja could swell further and eventually collapse, triggering a terrifying deluge in Nepal, an imp ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 
Microbes that provide natural fertilizer to the oceans by "fixing" nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form useable by other organisms were once thought to be limited to warm tropical and subtropical waters. Now, however, researchers have documented nitrogen fixation by an unusual type of cyanobacteria in the cold waters of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
"This goes against all the textbook a ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
The gravitational waves created by black holes or neutron stars in the depths of space indeed reach Earth. Their effects, however, are so small that they could only be observed so far using kilometer-long measurement facilities. Physicists therefore are discussing whether ultracold and miniscule Bose-Einstein condensates with their ordered quantum properties could also detect these waves. Prof. ... more |
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