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  Columbus OG (The Conversation) Feb 04, 2019 "Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original. But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit company SpaceIL, will be a blockbuster in its own right. Lunar landings date back to the 1960s. The United States landed 12 people on six sep ... read more |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe wakes up after first lunar nightBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2019 The rover and the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe have been awakened by sunlight after a long "sleep" during the first extremely cold night on the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) ... more 
Chang'e-4 finds moon's far side colder than expected during nightBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 probe, having made the first-ever soft landing on moon's far side, found that the temperature of the lunar surface dropped to as low as minus 190 degrees centigrade, colder than ex ... more  
'Rocket C': Space Industry Source Unveils Tech Details of Russia Lunar MissionMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 04, 2019 Russian space agency Roscosmos is currently working on a new carrier rocket C, which will become a part of the Yenisei superheavy launch vehicle that, in turn, is expected to be used for future luna ... more  
Simulating meteorite impacts in the labHamburg, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 A US-German research team has simulated meteorite impacts in the lab and followed the resulting structural changes in two feldspar minerals with X-rays as they happened. The results of the experimen ... more |
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Hubble fortuitously discovers a new galaxy in the cosmic neighbourhoodMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy ... more 
Locations on the surface of Ryugu have been namedTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 31, 2019 Place names for locations on the surface of Ryugu were discussed by Division F (Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System N ... more  
Observers Puzzled by Mysterious 'Empty Trash Bag' Orbiting EarthLondon, UK (Sputnik) Jan 31, 2019 A Hawaiian telescope, part of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), has spotted a satellite orbiting the Earth at an average distance of 262,000 kilometres. Sky watchers from ... more  
Superinsulators to become scientists' quark playgroundsLemont IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Scientists widely accept the existence of quarks, the fundamental particles that make up protons and neutrons. But information about them is still elusive, since their interaction is so strong that ... more 
Plasmonic pioneers fire away in fight over lightHouston TX (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 When you light up a metal nanoparticle, you get light back. It's often a different color. That's a fact - but the why is up for debate. In a new paper in the American Chemical Society journal ... more |
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 Speed of light: Toward a future quantum internet 
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  |
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How black holes power plasma jetsNew York NY (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 Black holes consume everything that falls within their reach, yet astronomers have spotted jets of particles fleeing from black holes at nearly the speed of light. New computer simulations have reve ... more 
Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the MoonColumbia MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Scientists discover what may be Earth's oldest rock in a lunar sample returned by the Apollo 14 astronauts. The research about this possible relic from the Hadean Earth was published in the journal ... more 
Japanese company seeks to pioneer artificial meteor showersTokyo, 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-droppi ... more
Russia positions its Moon program as alternative to US Lunar-orbit stationMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2019 The United States has presented a project for an international lunar-orbit station. Participants of the International Space Station, including Russia, are invited to participate in its construction. ... more 
Luxembourg and Belgium join forces to develop space resourcesLuxembourg (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence of the Kingdom of Belgium, and Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of the Grand Duch ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
A large volcanic event was detected on Jupiter's moon Io using Jovian sodium nebula brightness variation, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters said.
"These results highlight the growing body of evidence that the traditional way of monitoring Io's volcanism - by looking for temperature changes on its surface caused by hot lava - is not able to reliably find these large gas release e ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Feb 01, 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 host star, an alien world of this scale was supposed to be rare.
Aparna Bhattacharya, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), le ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
The density of rock layers on the terrain that climbs from the base of Mars' Gale Crater to Mount Sharp is less dense than expected, according to the latest report on the Red Planet's geology from a team of scientists including Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison. Their work is published in Science.
Scientists still aren't sure how this mountain grew inside of the crater, which has been a longstan ... more |
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 Columbus OG (The Conversation) Feb 04, 2019 
"Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original.
But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit company SpaceIL, will be a blockbuste ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away. The finding is reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 
New Space pioneer Earth-i has announced that it has completed the third annual update of the satellite map of the state of Queensland.
The map covers the whole of Queensland's 1.9 million km2 and was created by Earth-i for the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (DNRME). The first map was produced in 2016 with Earth-i reappointed for updates in both 2017 and 2018.
Aroun ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 31, 2019 
Place names for locations on the surface of Ryugu were discussed by Division F (Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (hereafter IAU WG) and approved in December 2018. We will introduce the place names in this article and the background to their selection.
As the appearance of Ryugu gradually became ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
On Jan. 19, 2019, just 161 days after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called aphelion. The spacecraft has now begun the second of 24 planned orbits, on track for its second perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun, on April 4, 2019.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2019 
China is going to send more than 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches this year, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on Tuesday.
The major missions include the third Long March-5 large carrier rocket to be launched in July, said Yang Baohua, vice president of the CASC, at a press conference.
The second Long March-5 rocket was launched f ... more |
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Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2019
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away. The finding is reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
An international team of astronomers ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60m people. But the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas which devastated the native population and the resultant collapse of farming in the Americas was so significant that it may have even cooled the global climate.
The number of people living in North ... more |
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 Bengaluru, India (IANS) Feb 01, 2019 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday that it has launched a Human Space Flight Centre here.
"Human Space Flight Centre is operational now... The facility is next to ISRO headquarters," the city-based space agency tweeted.
The Centre is dedicated to developing critical technologies for human space missions.
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 
The Greenland ice sheet melted a little more easily in the past than it does today because of geological changes, and most of Greenland's ice can be saved from melting if warming is controlled, says a team of Penn State researchers.
"There is geologic data that suggests the ice sheet was more sensitive to warming and temperature variations in the past million years, and not so much in the ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 1, 2019  A week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with 110 killed and 238 missing, presumed dead, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated.
Authorities fear the mineral-laced slurry released by the collapse could eventually pollute the Sao Francisco River, the second-longest in Brazil, which hosts various species of fish and has many ... 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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