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  Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor - comet 2I/Borisov - whose speed and trajectory indicate it has come from beyond our solar system. This Hubble image, taken on Oct. 12, 2019, is the sharpest view of the comet to date. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the nucleus (which is too small to be seen by Hubble). Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second such interstellar object known to have passed through the solar sys ... read more |
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China's first astronaut expects stepping onto MoonBeijing (XNA) Oct 17, 2019 Chinese first astronaut Yang Liwei said he was looking forward to setting foot on the moon. He made the remarks at the 16th anniversary of his flying into space aboard the Shenzhou-5 spacecraf ... more 
Russia's ability to return to the Moon in near future in questionMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 17, 2019 On Tuesday, a Roscosmos source revealed that the Russian space agency might send an anthropomorphic robot to the Moon as soon as three to four years from now, with its design expected to be based on ... more  
Gas 'waterfalls' reveal infant planets around young starCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made ... more  
Black holes stunt growth of dwarf galaxiesRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive black holes in the centers of dwarf galaxies have a significant impact on the evolu ... more |
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When debris overwhelms space exploitationBethesda MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 We see more and more reports of debris concern among satellite operators and space observers. Add to this the many recent announcements of multiple broadband satellite constellations that are being ... more 
Light in a new lightBaton Rouge LA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 In a paper published in Nature's NPJ Quantum Information, Omar Magana-Loaiza, assistant professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Physics and Astronomy, and his team of researc ... more 
There's a new Clean Up Sheriff in LEOBethesda MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 Yes, there is a new space debris cleanup sheriff in town and it is a sister company to Launchspace, called LAUNCHSPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (LTC). This organization is focused on supportin ... more 
Solving the mystery of quantum light in thin layersVienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 It is an exotic phenomenon that nobody was able to explain for years: when energy is supplied to a thin layer of the material tungsten diselenide, it begins to glow in a highly unusual fashion. In a ... more 
Using AI to determine exoplanet sizesPorto, Portugal (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 A team of Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) researchers has published an article[3], led by Solene Ulmer-Moll, which shows that by knowing an exoplanet's mass and equilibrium temper ... more |
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Spacebit aims to land first UK rover on the MoonLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 At an award-winning and mind-blowing festival of discoveries and ideas - New Scientist Live, CEO and Founder of UK startup Spacebit, Pavlo Tanasyuk announced the first commercial UK mission to The M ... more  |
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Violent flaring at the heart of a black hole systemSouthampton UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high-frame rate movie of a growing black hole system at a level of detail n ... more 
Scientists find microbial remains in ancient rocksSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 Scientists have found exceptionally preserved microbial remains in some of Earth's oldest rocks in Western Australia - a major advance in the field, offering clues for how life on Earth originated. ... more 
Physicists have found a way to 'hear' dark matterStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas in a proposal that could revolutionise the search for the elusive dark matter. Dark matter is ... more 
Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way explodedCanberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way just 3.5 million years ago, sending a cone-shaped burst of radiation through both ... more 
Study suggests ice on lunar south pole may have more than one sourceProvidence RI (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is sure exactly when or how that ice got there ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) how distinct gaps and ring features in dust, which may be caused by infant planets.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2019 
The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently sent home eye-catching views of the agency's InSight lander and its Curiosity rover.
HiRISE has been monitoring InSight's landing site in the Elysium Planitia region of the Red Planet for changes to the surface, such as dust-devil tracks. Taken on Sept. 23, 2019, at an altitude of 169 miles (272 kilometers) above the surface, ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 17, 2019 
On Tuesday, a Roscosmos source revealed that the Russian space agency might send an anthropomorphic robot to the Moon as soon as three to four years from now, with its design expected to be based on the semi-autonomous robot which was recently deployed aboard the International Space Station.
US-based science news outlet Ars Technica has questioned whether Russia has the capability to land ... more |
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Next year is the 200 years anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Orsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence of electromagnetism still brings up new puzzles pertaining to their origin.
One such mystery is the origin of electro magnetic fields on the very largest scale in the universe.
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
An interdisciplinary team of four researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, the University of Valencia, and Columbia University has been awarded a 2019 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant to understand and model the Earth system with machine learning, one of the important approaches of ar ... more |
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 Krakow Poland (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
For decades, astronomers have speculated that the space between stars may be populated by exosolar minor bodies - comets and asteroids - ejected from their home planetary systems. Studies have also suggested that these bodies may occasionally pass through the Solar System and be identified thanks to their strongly open orbits. The discovery of 'Oumuamua two years ago brought the long-awaited con ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
A NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) team has shown that by using deep learning, it is possible to virtually monitor the Sun's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance, which is a key driver of space weather. The Sun is vital for survival, but solar flares, which typically occur a few times a year, have the potential to cause severe disruptions in space and on Earth.
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 Nanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 
China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission.
The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to carry rockets. With a length of 130 meters, a width of 19 meters and a height of 37 meters, the ships have a displacement of 9,000 tonnes.
Each ship is equipped with two 120-tonne cranes that c ... more |
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Odense, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2019
Next year is the 200 years anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Orsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence of electromagnetism still brings up new puzzles pertaining to their origin.
One such mystery is the origin of electro magnetic fields on the very largest scale in the universe.
While researchers have believed for some time ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 
The evolution of the brain allowed humans to acquire a knack for language and tool production. The braincase, the portion of the skull that houses the brain, also changed shape, but new research suggests the two components evolved independently.
Scientists have long sought to unravel the evolutionary relationship between the human brain and braincase, and to determine which of the two l ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
One day after NASA unveiled prototype spacesuits designed to explore the moon and Mars, Under Armour on Wednesday revealed new equipment it says will be worn by space tourists when Virgin Galactic begins flying beyond the atmosphere.
The uniforms include a spacesuit, training suit, footwear and a jacket. The suits were created specifically for private astronauts, the companies said, and ar ... more |
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 Kulusuk, Denmark (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 
Kayaking past blue-white icebergs drifting along near a pristine harbour, wandering around colourful houses or trekking in the snow-capped wilderness: July and August are high season for tourists in eastern Greenland.
Many of the 85,000 tourists who visit each year head to the west coast, but eastern Greenland, with its glaciers, wilderness and wildlife starring whales and polar bears, is al ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater lakes, which was conducted by Carnegie's Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak and NASA's Nima Pahlevan and published by Nature.
Reports of harmful algal blooms - like the ones that shut down Toledo's water supply in 2014 or led to states of emergency b ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very first, high-energy stages of star formation.
While galaxy clusters have been used to magnify objects at optical wavelengths, this is the first time scientists have leveraged ... more |
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