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  Washington (UPI) Jan 9, 2019 The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 has been turned off due to hardware anomalies, according to an update from NASA. "Hubble is still conducting science observations with its other instruments (one camera and two spectrographs) - more than enough to keep the observatory active for the near future," Cheryl Gundy, deputy news chief at the Space Telescope Science Institute told UPI in an email. There are concerns, however, that "engineers are unlikely to be able to fix the agi ... read more |
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Five things to know about January's total Lunar eclipseSyracuse NY (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 This month's rare total eclipse will be the last one visible from the United States until 2022. Walter Freeman is an assistant teaching professor in the Physics Department at Syracuse Universi ... more  
First comprehensive, interactive tool to track SETI searchesMountain View CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 For the first time ever, scientists have developed a way for the SETI community to keep track of, and update, all SETI searches that have been conducted and the results. Jill Tarter, SETI pion ... more  
NASA's Osiris-Rex probe takes flyby video of asteroid BennuWashington (Sputnik) Jan 10, 2019 The US space agency NASA has released a series of photos from its Osiris-Rex spacecraft that shows a series of flybys of the 1,600-foot-wide asteroid Bennu. The Osiris-Rex (Origins, Spectral I ... more 
Gaia reveals how Sun-like stars turn solid after their demiseParis (ESA) Jan 10, 2019 Data captured by ESA's galaxy-mapping spacecraft Gaia has revealed for the first time how white dwarfs, the dead remnants of stars like our Sun, turn into solid spheres as the hot gas inside them co ... more |
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Probing the magnetar at the center of our galaxyPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 In a new Caltech-led study, researchers from campus and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have analyzed pulses of radio waves coming from a magnetar - a rotating, dense, dead star with a strong ma ... more 
Canada's CHIME detects second repeating FRBToronto, Canada (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 A Canadian-led team of scientists has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists b ... more 
Programming light on a chipBoston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its fr ... more 
Thousands of stars turning into crystalsWarwick UK (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by astronomers at the University of Warwick, and our skies are filled with them. Observations have ... more 
Milky Way-sized galaxy lacking galactic neighborsAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, fewer galaxies were born than expected - and that could create new questions for galaxy physics, according to a new University of Michigan study. The study ... more |
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 Astronomers uncover brightest quasar in early universe  
X-ray pulse near event horizon as black hole devours starBoston MA (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, nearly 300 million light-years from Earth, ripping apart a passing star. ... more  |
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Space microbes aren't so alien after allEvanston IL (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Microbes stranded in the International Space Station (ISS) are just trying to survive, man. A new Northwestern University study has found that - despite its seemingly harsh conditions - the IS ... more 
Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for lifeBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Rocky planets orbiting red dwarf stars may be bone dry and lifeless, according to a new study using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble). Water and organic compounds, essential ... more 
Nature's magnifying glass reveals unexpected intermediate mass exoplanetsMaunakea HI (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Astronomers have found a new exoplanet that could alter the standing theory of planet formation. With a mass that's between that of Neptune and Saturn, and its location beyond the "snow line" of its ... more 
'Missing' galactic mergers come to lightBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Galaxy mergers - in which two galaxies join together over billions of years in brilliant bursts of light - aren't always easy for astronomers to spot. Now, scientists from the University of Colorado ... more 
Astronomers find warped protoplanetary disk around distant starWashington (UPI) Jan 8, 2019 Researchers in Japan have identified a young star with an already warped protoplanetary disk. The discovery could help scientists better understand how planets come to travel in slightly askew orbital planes. ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily.
"The first exploration of a small Kuiper Belt object and the most distant exploration of any world in history is now history, but almost all of the data analysis lies in the future," said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boul ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at the annual American Astronomical Society winter meeting in Seattle.
The new planet, named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light-years away, in the constellation Reticulum, and appears to have the longest orbital period of ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres a day.
New software developed in the UK will change this, enabling future Mars rovers to make their own decisions about where to go and how to get there, driving up to a k ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 
A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people".
The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) rover drove onto the moon's surface from the lander at 10:22pm Thursday (1422 GMT), about 12 hours after the groundbreaking touchdown of the Chang'e-4 probe, the agency said.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its frequency (or color) in an integrated circuit.
The platform draws inspiration from atomic systems and could have a wide range of applications including photonic quantum information processing, opt ... more |
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 Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
How far have we come in achieving the UN's sustainable development goals that we are committed to nationally and internationally? Yes, it can be difficult to make a global assessment of poverty and poor economic conditions, but with an eye in the sky, researchers are able to give us a very good hint of the living conditions of populations in the world's poor countries.
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 Washington (Sputnik) Jan 10, 2019 
The US space agency NASA has released a series of photos from its Osiris-Rex spacecraft that shows a series of flybys of the 1,600-foot-wide asteroid Bennu.
The Osiris-Rex (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft arrived in orbit around Bennu, which orbits the sun between Earth and Mars, back in early December.
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 Syracuse NY (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 
This month's rare total eclipse will be the last one visible from the United States until 2022.
Walter Freeman is an assistant teaching professor in the Physics Department at Syracuse University. Freeman answers five questions about the upcoming eclipse.
Freeman says: What should those in the viewing area of the Jan. 20-21 total lunar eclipse expect to see?
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists.
China, whose space effort is run by the People's Liberation Army, today launches more rockets into space than any other country - 39 last year, compared to 31 by the United States, 20 by Russia and eight by Eur ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2019
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its frequency (or color) in an integrated circuit.
The platform draws inspiration from atomic systems and could have a wide range of applications including photonic quantum information processing, opt ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
Zinc is one of the essential components in the diet of all living organisms. It is the second most abundant biological trace element after iron. Zinc is of great importance in various metabolic functions and its deficiency can cause many problems.
It is involved in cellular metabolism, growth, development, cellular physiology, and immune function. Approximately 300 enzymes and 100 transcri ... more |
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 Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 10, 2019 
Once confined to the realms of science fiction, near real-time translation devices that whisper discretely into your ear during a conversation are finally coming of age thanks to leaps in AI and cloud computing.
An array of companies at the Consumer Electronics Show are promoting increasingly sophisticated devices that allow people speaking different languages to converse with the help of ha ... more |
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 East Boothbay ME (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 
Microscopic marine plants flourish beneath the ice that covers the Greenland Sea, according to a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. These phytoplankton create the energy that fuels ocean ecosystems, and the study found that half of this energy is produced under the sea ice in late winter and early spring, and the other half at the edge of the ice in spring.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Chilly reminders of a centuries-long cold snap can be found deep within the Pacific, a new study finds.
According to the results, ongoing cooling observed in Pacific deep-ocean temperatures indicates that the deep Pacific is still adjusting to the surface cooling that occurred during the Little Ice Age, which began nearly 1,000 years ago.
The common-era climate anomaly known as the L ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by tiny quantum mechanical effects.
These cause a background noise which overlaps with gravitational-wave signals. This noise is always presen ... more |
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