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  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Black holes are known for their voracious appetites, binging on matter with such ferocity that not even light can escape once it's swallowed up. Less understood, though, is how black holes purge energy locked up in their rotation, jetting near-light-speed plasmas into space to opposite sides in one of the most powerful displays in the universe. These jets can extend outward for millions of light years. New simulations led by researchers working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ... read more |
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Hubble sees plunging galaxy losing its gasBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 The rough-and-tumble environment near the center of the massive Coma galaxy cluster is no match for a wayward spiral galaxy. New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble ... more  
Machine-learning code sorts through telescope dataBerkeley CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 A new telescope will take a sequence of hi-res snapshots with the world's largest digital camera, covering the entire visible night sky every few days - and repeating the process for an entire decad ... more 
This Galaxy Is No Match for a Hungry ClusterNew Haven CT (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 A new study led by Yale University astronomers tells the story of a galaxy that ran out of gas. It's a story as old as the universe itself: A galaxy is born, brimming with new stars, its spira ... more  
At Sundance, a fresh look at man's first walk on the MoonPark City, United States (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 It's easy to think that 50 years on, we know everything there is to know about the Apollo 11 mission and man's legendary first footsteps on the Moon. ... more |
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Stellar winds, the source material for the universe, are clumpyUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Data recorded by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of a neutron star as it passed through a dense patch of stellar wind emanating from its massive companion star provide valuable insight about the st ... more 
Physicists Create the Most Accurate Model Yet of Black Hole MergersPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 One of the most cataclysmic events to occur in the cosmos involves the collision of two black holes. Formed from the deathly collapse of massive stars, black holes are incredibly compact - a person ... more 
As Clouds Fall Apart, A New Star Is BornHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Using the ALMA observatory in Chile, a group of astronomers led by MPIA's Henrik Beuther has made the most detailed observation yet of the way that a giant gas cloud fragments into dense cores, whic ... more 
Making the Hubble's deepest images even deeperLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 To produce the deepest image of the Universe from space a group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) led by Alejandro S. Borlaff used original images from the Hubble Sp ... more  
Planetary collision that formed the Moon made life possible on EarthHouston TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 Most of Earth's essential elements for life - including most of the carbon and nitrogen in you - probably came from another planet. Earth most likely received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen ... more |
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Where Is Earth's Submoon?Washington DC (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 "Can moons have moons?" This simple question - asked by the four-year-old son of Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier - started it all. Not long after this initial bedtime query, Kollmeier was coordinating a p ... more  |
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Astronomers find star material could be building block of lifeLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 An organic molecule detected in the material from which a star forms could shed light on how life emerged on Earth, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London. The resear ... more 
Birth of massive black holes in the early universe revealedAtlanta GA (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 The light released from around the first massive black holes in the universe is so intense that it is able to reach telescopes across the entire expanse of the universe. Incredibly, the light from t ... more 
Stars shrouded in iron dustLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 Stars with masses between one and eight times the mass of the Sun evolve along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) before ending their lives as white dwarfs. It is during this rapid but crucial phase ... more 
New detector fails to confirm would-be evidence of dark matterSao Paulo, brazil (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 Almost 20 years ago, the DAMA/LIBRA experiment operated at Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory - LNGS began publishing data showing that it had detected a signal modulation produced by an interac ... more 
How realistic are China's plans to build a research station on the Moon?Sydney, Australia (The Conversation) Jan 24, 2019 The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China's Chang'e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. This week, China announced its plans to follow up with three more lunar missions, l ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
The wonders - and mysteries - of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to multiply as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft beams home new images of its New Year's Day 2019 flyby target.
This image, taken during the historic Jan. 1 flyby of what's informally known as Ultima Thule, is the clearest view yet of this remarkable, ancient object in the far reaches of the solar system - and the first sm ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
"Can moons have moons?" This simple question - asked by the four-year-old son of Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier - started it all. Not long after this initial bedtime query, Kollmeier was coordinating a program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on the Milky Way while her one-time college classmate Sean Raymond of Universite de Bordeaux was attending a parallel KITP program on the d ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2019 
NASA's Opportunity rover begins its 16th year on the surface of Mars today. The rover landed in a region of the Red Planet called Meridiani Planum on Jan. 24, 2004, sending its first signal back to Earth from the surface at 9:05 p.m. PST (Jan. 25, 2004, at 12:05 a.m. EST). The golf-cart-sized rover was designed to travel 1,100 yards (1,006 meters) and operate on the Red Planet for 90 Martian day ... more |
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 Lanzarote, Spain (ESA) Jan 25, 2019 
Developing the most efficient and safest way to return to the Moon starts on Earth. European astronauts and spacewalk experts are getting ready for the future of Moon exploration with electronic aids, upgraded geological tools from the Apollo era and improved scientific protocols.
In November, ESA conducted a moonwalk simulation in Lanzarote, Spain as part of Pangaea-X, a test campaign tha ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, brazil (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
Almost 20 years ago, the DAMA/LIBRA experiment operated at Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory - LNGS began publishing data showing that it had detected a signal modulation produced by an interaction with the Milky Way's dark matter halo.
Dark matter is believed to constitute approximately 27% of the known universe, with ordinary matter accounting for only 4%. The remaining 69% is thoug ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 21, 2019 
The first Russian satellite for weather forecasting and monitoring climate and environment in the Arctic region, Arktika-M, is planned to be sent to near-earth orbit in June 2019, a source in the Russian space industry told Sputnik on Sunday.
"The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome with Fregat booster and the first hydrometeorological satellite Arktika-M i ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Jan 25, 2019 
Astro Live Experiences (ALE), a Japanese company founded in September 2011, is hoping to become the first company to produce artificial meteor showers in an effort to offer earthlings the jaw-dropping experience on demand.
In order to make the venture a reality, ALE's first satellite booked a ride to space aboard a Japanese Epsilon rocket on Friday from the Uchinoura Space Center last week ... more |
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 Bergen, Norway (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
For many years, scientists assumed the aurora seen around the north pole was identical to the aurora seen around the south pole. The poles are connected by magnetic field lines, and auroral displays are caused by charged particles streaming along these field lines. Because the charged particles follow these field lines, it would make sense that the auroras would be mirror images of each other. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 14, 2019 
As the Chang'e-4 probe made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, a senior Chinese space expert said China will deepen its lunar exploration and venture further into the unknown.
China's current lunar program includes three phases: orbiting, landing, and returning. The first two phases have been accomplished, and the next step is to launch the Chang'e-5 probe to collect ... more |
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Sao Paulo, brazil (SPX) Jan 24, 2019
Almost 20 years ago, the DAMA/LIBRA experiment operated at Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory - LNGS began publishing data showing that it had detected a signal modulation produced by an interaction with the Milky Way's dark matter halo.
Dark matter is believed to constitute approximately 27% of the known universe, with ordinary matter accounting for only 4%. The remaining 69% is thoug ... more |
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 Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Jan 23, 2019 
Prof. Rony Paz of the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that our brains are like modern washing machines - evolved to have the latest sophisticated programming, but more vulnerable to breakdown and prone to develop costly disorders.
He and a group of researchers recently conducted experiments comparing the efficiency of the neural code in non-human and human primates, and found that a ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 22, 2019  Blue Origin, the rocket company headed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is poised to launch the 10th test flight of its unmanned New Shepard rocket on Wednesday as it competes with Virgin Galactic to become the first to carry tourists on brief visits to space.
The liftoff is scheduled for 8:50 am Central time (1450 GMT) from a Texas launchpad. The rocket will be carrying several science experim ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
A team of scientists and engineers has for the first time successfully drilled over two kilometres through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water. This research will help understand how the region will respond to a warming climate.
The 11-person team has been working on the Rutford Ice Stream for the last 12 weeks in freezing temperatures at low as minus 30 degrees Celsius. On Tu ... more |
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 Brumadinho, Brazil (AFP) Jan 26, 2019  Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing Saturday, with hopes fading of them being found alive, after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil.
The disaster struck Friday at the Vale mine near the city of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state, spewing millions of tons of muddy sludge across the facility and down towards farmland alongside the nearby town of Brumadinh ... 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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