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  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei, supernova remnants and X-ray binaries have one thing in common - they are incredibly hot and therefore emit X-rays. This type of radiation can reveal a great deal about the Universe, and it is being observed by the German eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) instrument. Between 17 and 19 October 2019, all seven of eROSITA's 'X-ray eyes' acquired their first combined images of the hot Universe. "A first light event is always an ... read more |
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TESS reveals an improbable planetPorto, Portgual (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 Using asteroseismic1 data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team2, led by Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA3) researcher Tiago Campante, stud ... more 
Putting the 'bang' in the Big BangBoston MA (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 As the Big Bang theory goes, somewhere around 13.8 billion years ago the universe exploded into being, as an infinitely small, compact fireball of matter that cooled as it expanded, triggering react ... more  
Chandra spots a mega-cluster of galaxies in the makingBoston MA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 Astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have put together a detailed map of a rare collision between four galaxy clusters. Eventually all four clusters - ea ... more 
NASA innovator experiments with force fields for moving matterGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 On a metal work bench covered with tools, instruments, cords and bottles of solution, Aaron Yevick is using laser light to create a force field with which to move particles of matter. Yevick i ... more |
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How supergiant stars repeatedly cool and heat upBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, which includes Alex Lobel, astronomer at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has determined in detail how the temperature of four yellow ... more 
Detector for hunting dark matter installed a mile undergroundLondon UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 The central component of LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) - the largest direct-detection dark matter experiment in the US - has been slowly lowered 4,850 feet down a shaft formerly used in gold-mining operations by ... more 
Fresh strontium, an ingredient in fireworks, produced by neutron star mergerWashington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019 Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger. ... more 
Hubble captures galaxies' ghostly gazeBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 When astronomers peer deep into space, they don't expect to find something staring back at them. In this new Hubble Space Telescope image, an uncanny pair of glowing eyes glares menacingly in our di ... more 
A flash and a shudder may reveal inner workings of starsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 In five billion years or so, when the Sun has used up the hydrogen in its core, it will inflate and turn into a red giant star. This phase of its life - and that of other stars up to twice its mass ... more |
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 Placing another piece in the dark matter puzzle 
Giant neutrino telescope to open window to ultra-high-energy universeBeijing, China (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 The long-sought, elusive ultra-high-energy neutrinos, ghost-like particles that travel cosmological-scale distances, are key to understanding the Universe at the highest energies. Detecting them is ... more  |
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Dark matter search enters new chapterHamburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 The international ALPS II ("Any light particle search") collaboration installed the first of 24 superconducting magnets today, marking the start of the installation of a unique particle physics expe ... more  
Asteroid Hygiea could be the smallest dwarf planet yetMunich, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 Astronomers using ESO's SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest in the aste ... more 
How to spot a wormhole if they existBuffalo NY (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 A new study outlines a method for detecting a speculative phenomenon that has long captured the imagination of sci-fi fans: wormholes, which form a passage between two separate regions of spacetime. ... more  
China to launch Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2020Xiamen, China (XNA) Oct 29, 2019 China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 probe in 2020 to bring moon samples back to Earth, according to Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program. The Long March-5 carrier roc ... more 
Building blocks of all life gain new understandingManchester UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 New research on an enzyme that is essential for photosynthesis and all life on earth has uncovered a key finding in its structure which reveals how light can interact with matter to make an essentia ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 
NASA has funded Southwest Research Institute to study the important attributes, feasibility and cost of a possible future Pluto orbiter mission. This study will develop the spacecraft and payload design requirements and make preliminary cost and risk assessments for new technologies.
The study is one of 10 different mission studies that NASA is sponsoring to prepare for the next Planetary ... more |
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 Porto, Portgual (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 
Using asteroseismic1 data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team2, led by Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA3) researcher Tiago Campante, studied the red-giant stars HD 212771 and HD 203949. These are the first detections of oscillations in previously known exoplanet-host stars by TESS. The result was published today in an article4 in The A ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 
Mars Express, the European Space Agency's (ESA) first planetary mission, is a true marathon runner among spacecraft. Launched on 2 June 2003, the spacecraft arrived at Mars during the night of 25 December that same year.
On 26 October 2019, this spacecraft completed its twenty-thousandth orbit around Mars. Mars Express is in good company in Martian orbit: NASA's Mars 2001 Odyssey and Mars ... more |
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 Xiamen, China (XNA) Oct 29, 2019 
China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 probe in 2020 to bring moon samples back to Earth, according to Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program.
The Long March-5 carrier rocket, China's current largest launch vehicle, will be used to send the probe into space, Wu, also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said at the first China Space Science Assembly, w ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019 
Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger.
The element, strontium, was found in the spectra emanating from the neutron star merger GW170817. Scientists detailed the discovery in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Gravitational wave machines first picked up the signal produced by GW170817 in 2017 ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2019  On 23 October 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the U.S. company Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) will announce the start of routine operations for the 'DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer' (DESIS).
This instrument will be operated by DLR and TBE. It is the most powerful hyperspectral Earth observation instrument in orbit and addresse ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 
Astronomers using ESO's SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest in the asteroid belt after Ceres, Vesta and Pallas.
For the first time, astronomers have observed Hygiea in sufficiently high resolution to study its surface and determine its shape and size. They found th ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 
A previously unobserved mechanism is at work in the Sun's rotating plasma: a magnetic instability, which scientists had thought was physically impossible under these conditions. The effect might even play a crucial role in the formation of the Sun's magnetic field, say researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Leeds and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics ... more |
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 Xiamen (XNA) Oct 30, 2019 
China plans to launch four new science satellite missions by 2023, and scientists have completed concept research on another five to be launched in the next 10 years.
Successful Chinese science satellites launched since 2015 include the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) and the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). These were under a sp ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019
Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger.
The element, strontium, was found in the spectra emanating from the neutron star merger GW170817. Scientists detailed the discovery in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Gravitational wave machines first picked up the signal produced by GW170817 in 2017 ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 
A study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African 'homeland' and thrived there for 70 thousand years.
The findings were published this week in the journal Nature. The authors propose that changes in Africa's climate triggered the first human explorations, which initiated the development of humans' genetic, e ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2019  The United States on Wednesday pledged closer cooperation with France's space agency, saying the two were advancing the commercial development of space.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France's space agency, CNES, signed a declaration of intent, announcing expanded collaboration on space traffic management and space situational awareness, among other mat ... more |
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 Concordia Research Station, Antarctic (ESA) Oct 30, 2019 
As the Northern hemisphere tucks into longer nights, Antarctica bursts into its season of sunlight.
After four months of night, the crew of Concordia research station, located on Dome C in the Antarctic peninsula, saw first light in August, marking the end of the dreaded winter-over, a period of darkness and isolation.
The arrival of spring means the residents of Antarctica say goodb ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) Oct 29, 2019 
Egypt's foreign minister confirmed Tuesday that his country would take part in mediated talks in Washington next month over a controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile.
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia "will meet in the United States on 6 November... to break the deadlock in the ongoing negotiations regarding the Renaissance Dam," Sameh Shoukry said at a press conference held with his Germ ... 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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