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  New Haven CT (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 Yale astronomers have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. 2l/Borisov, first spotted this summer, continues to draw nearer to Earth and will reach its closest approach - about 190 million miles - in early December. Researchers believe the comet formed in a solar system beyond ours and was ejected into interstellar space as a consequence of a near-collision with a planet in its original solar system. Yale astronomers Pieter van Dokkum, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Shany Danie ... read more |
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Amateur astronomers: help choose asteroid flybys for HeraParis (ESA) Nov 27, 2019 Amateur astronomers around the world are being asked to help the proposed ESA asteroid mission. As well as exploring its final destination - the Didymos binary asteroid system - the Hera spacecraft ... more  
Black hole nurtures baby stars a million light-years awayHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 Black holes are famous for ripping objects apart, including stars. But now, astronomers have uncovered a black hole that may have sparked the births of stars over a mind-boggling distance, and acros ... more 
Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawnProvidence RI (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 Around 12 billion years ago, the universe emerged from a great cosmic dark age as the first stars and galaxies lit up. With a new analysis of data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) ra ... more 
Giant magnetic ropes in a galaxy's haloSocorro NM (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 This image of the "Whale Galaxy" (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy's magnetic field protruding ... more |
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Israel's next attempt at lunar lander within 3 years says SpaceIL founderMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 25, 2019 Although Israel's first privately funded mission to the Moon crashed on the lunar surface in April, Kfir Damari, co-founder of SpaceIL, a startup that developed the spacecraft, isn't giving up. Work ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 12th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2019 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 12th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 5:03 p. ... more 
NASA certifies SLS Rocket Laboratory to test flight software for Artemis IHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 To launch the Artemis I Moon mission, NASA's powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket must go from 0 to more than 17,000 miles per hour. The rocket's flight software and avionics systems control al ... more 
Sugar delivered to Earth from spaceSendai, Japan (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 Researchers from Tohoku University, Hokkaido University, JAMSTEC, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center investigated meteorites and found ribose and other sugars. These sugars possessed distinct carb ... more 
Wolfe Creek Crater younger than previously thoughtPortsmouth UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 Wolfe Creek Crater, one of the world's largest meteorite craters, is much younger than previously thought. Wolfe Creek Crater is situated on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert in northern West ... more |
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Extremely energetic particles coupled with the violent death of a star for the first timeCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and DTU Space in Lyngby have determined the emission of extremely energetic light particles during the death of a very heavy star fo ... more  |
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Images from solar observatory peel away layers of a stellar mysteryNewark NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from ... more 
NASA's Fermi, Swift missions enable a new era in gamma-ray scienceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have produced the highest-energy light yet seen from these events, called gamma-r ... more 
New water-based optical device revolutionizes the field of optics researchTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 Light is versatile in nature. In other words, it shows different characteristics when traveling through different types of materials. This property has been explored in various technologies, but the ... more 
Physicists say industrial bread dough kneaders need a redesignWashington DC (UPI) Nov 27, 2019 New research suggests the design of industrial bread dough kneaders don't reflect the physics of bread making. ... more  
Scientists find a place on Earth where there is no lifeMadrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 25, 2019 Living beings, especially microorganisms, have a surprising ability to adapt to the most extreme environments on our planet, but there are still places where they cannot live. European researchers h ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 
The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter has been well documented with photographic evidence from the last decade. However, researchers said there is no evidence the vortex itself has changed in size or intensity.
Philip Marcus, from the University of California, Berkeley, will explain why the pictures from astronomers, both professionals and amateur, are not telling th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 22, 2019 
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the deepest-living animal, the devil worm, gaining new insights into the genetic adaptations required for life under harsh, subsurface conditions.
Scientists first discovered the devil worm, which they named Halicephalobus mephisto, in 2008, living in an aquifer nearly a mile underground in South Africa. The research team didn't originally set ou ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 
During ice ages on Earth, the retreating ice sheets greatly altered the landscape of the continents. Over the past two-and-a-half million years, Central Europe alone has experienced five massive glaciations. Ice from the Arctic spread as far south as Central Europe while at the same time, the kilometre-thick glaciers of the Alps pushed their way north as far as today's Danube.
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2019 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 12th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night.
The lander woke up at 5:03 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 0:51 a.m. the same day. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the ... more |
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 Socorro NM (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 
This image of the "Whale Galaxy" (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy's magnetic field protruding above and below the galaxy's disk.
The spiral galaxy is seen edge-on, with its disk of stars shown in pink. The filaments, shown in green and blue, extend beyond the disk into the galaxy's exten ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (ESA) Nov 26, 2019 
ESA's ESTEC Test Centre in the Netherlands has completed its initial test campaign for the future of European weather forecasting - MetOp Second Generation. MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG) is a follow-on system to the successful MetOp satellites, the last of which launched into its 800 km polar orbit in 2018.
MetOp-SG is Europe's component of the Joint Polar System, which is a collabora ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 27, 2019 
Amateur astronomers around the world are being asked to help the proposed ESA asteroid mission. As well as exploring its final destination - the Didymos binary asteroid system - the Hera spacecraft could potentially fly past one or more bodies on the way. But the mission team require additional observations to help select their targets.
"Asteroid research is one area of astronomy where ama ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star's upper atmosphere, heating it to 1 million degrees Fahrenheit and higher in some regions, temperatures that are vastly hotter than the Sun's surface.
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Nov 22, 2019 
A Chinese company on Wednesday launched a satellite service platform to make satellite resources more accessible for users.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the platform's designer, announced the news at the 5th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan.
A common satellite operating business focuses on satellites rather than services, which ma ... more |
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Socorro NM (SPX) Nov 27, 2019
This image of the "Whale Galaxy" (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy's magnetic field protruding above and below the galaxy's disk.
The spiral galaxy is seen edge-on, with its disk of stars shown in pink. The filaments, shown in green and blue, extend beyond the disk into the galaxy's exten ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 27, 2019  How humans respond to stimuli depends on not only external factors, but internal variables like mood and memory, as well.
These internal brain states are invisible to the outside observer, but neuroscientists have developed a new model to predict internal brain states based on observations of outward behavior.
For now, the model only works to predict the internal states of fruit ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 27, 2019 
Japanese chicken yakitori kebabs, one of the country's most-loved fast foods, will soon be making an appearance in orbit after Japan's space agency cleared them for astronaut meals.
The charbroiled chicken meat on skewers and flavoured with a variety of sauces is hugely popular in Japan and abroad, and a canned version has just won certification as a "Japanese space food" for consumption on ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Nov 23, 2019 
Two men trying to cross the Arctic Ocean on skis have run into difficulty as unusually thin ice has lengthened their journey and cut into their rations, their team said Saturday.
South African Mike Horn, 53, and Borge Ousland of Norway, 57 - both experienced adventurers - left Nome, Alaska by sailboat on August 25.
Since September 12, when they reached the sea ice, they have been trav ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 25, 2019 
Marine ecosystems are being reshaped by rising ocean water temperatures, according to a new study.
For the new research, scientists analyzed millions of records on thousands of species living in 200 different ecological communities. The effort was the largest yet to examine the effects of rising water temperatures on the mix of species living in the ocean.
The data showed the mix ... 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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