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  Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 Our Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from the Milky Way's center, according to astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC). From a great distance, our galaxy would look like a thin disk of stars that orbit once every few hundred million years around its central region, where hundreds of billions of stars, together with a huge mass of dark matter, provide th ... read more |
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ASU scientists study organization of life on a planetary scaleTempe AZ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria. When astrobiologists study life, however, they have to consider not only individual organisms, ... 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 
Retreating snow line reveals organic molecules around young starTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori. A sudden outburst from this star is releasing molecules from the icy compounds in the planet fo ... more  
Frequent Visitor: Asteroid Larger Than Statue of Liberty Approaches EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2019 What astronomers may describe as an exciting sighting, some may find frightening, as a huge and heavy alien body will come comparatively close to Earth in the early hours of 6 February. Dubbed ... more |
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NASA's NICER Mission Maps 'Light Echoes' of New Black HoleGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the mass of the Sun using NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload aboard the ... more 
Magnifying glass reveals unexpected intermediate mass exoplanetsMaunakea 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 ... more 
Why are you and I and everything else here?Oslo, Norway (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 The universe consists of matter. Matter is everything we see around us. That's strange - but why? In theory, there should also be large amounts of antimatter. Antimatter and matter are actuall ... more 
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 
How does a quantum particle see the worldVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 According to one of the most fundamental principles in physics, an observer on a moving train uses the same laws to describe a ball on the platform as an observer standing on the platform - physical ... 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  |
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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 
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 
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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 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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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria. When astrobiologists study life, however, they have to consider not only individual organisms, but also ecosystems, and the biosphere as a whole.
In astrobiology, there is an increasing interest in whether life as we know it is a quirk of the particular evolutionary history of the Earth ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2019 
Before the pair of briefcase-sized spacecraft known collectively as MarCO launched last year, their success was measured by survival: If they were able to operate in deep space at all, they would be pushing the limits of experimental technology.
Now well past Mars, the daring twins seem to have reached their limit. It's been over a month since engineers have heard from MarCO, which followe ... 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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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
How have stars and planets developed from the clouds of dust and gas that once filled the cosmos? A novel experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has demonstrated the validity of a widespread theory known as "magnetorotational instability," or MRI, that seeks to explain the formation of heavenly bodies.
The theory holds that MRI allows ... more |
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 Athens, Greece (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
Plexscape, developers of Plex.Earth, one of the most popular tools for AutoCAD for the acceleration of architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) projects, and Bird.i, a start-up that combines the latest satellite imagery and artificial intelligence technology to provide valuable business insights, are on a mission to change the way engineering projects are being designed by opening up ac ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2019 
What astronomers may describe as an exciting sighting, some may find frightening, as a huge and heavy alien body will come comparatively close to Earth in the early hours of 6 February.
Dubbed by NASA Asteroid 2013 RV9, the minor planet is expected to swing by Earth at 6.30am GMT (UTC) on Wednesday. The distance between the asteroid and Earth will constitute around 6,842,740 km, which is a ... 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) Feb 05, 2019 
An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago.
Li Fuguang was one of the Chinese agricultural scientists whose years of hard work might one day help lead to a base and long-term human residence on the moon.
He was on the team that developed the cotton seeds c ... more |
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Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019
How have stars and planets developed from the clouds of dust and gas that once filled the cosmos? A novel experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has demonstrated the validity of a widespread theory known as "magnetorotational instability," or MRI, that seeks to explain the formation of heavenly bodies.
The theory holds that MRI allows ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, posits a new paper in Current Anthropology.
The paper argues that our early ancestors acquired a taste for fat by eating marrow scavenged from the skeletal remains of large animals that had been killed and eaten by other predators. The argument challenge ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2019 
Russia will fulfil a contract on flying the US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and bringing them back on the Russian Soyuz manned spacecraft in December of 2019, a month and a half ahead of schedule, a source in the Russian space industry told Sputnik.
"The previous version of the ISS flight program provided for the return of foreign astronauts, under a contract with th ... more |
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 Morgantown WV (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 
A field trip to Namibia to study volcanic rocks led to an unexpected discovery by West Virginia University geologists Graham Andrews and Sarah Brown.
While exploring the desert country in southern Africa, they stumbled upon a peculiar land formation - flat desert scattered with hundreds of long, steep hills. They quickly realized the bumpy landscape was shaped by drumlins, a type of hill o ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
At least 15% of the world's inland surface water areas are covered by protected areas, according to a new study from the JRC.
This is close to the global target of 17% set out in Aichi Target 11 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
However, surface water protection is very unevenly distributed globally, still falling well b ... 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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