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  Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting space telescope left Earth on Wednesday and moved into orbit, a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. The telescope will measure the density, composition and size of planets beyond our Solar System - known as exoplanets. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), CHEOPS will observe bright stars that are already known to be orbited by planets. "Cheops is 710 kilometres (440 miles) away, exactly where we ... read more |
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A warm Space Station welcome for cool new hardwarePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2019 Astronaut Christina Koch recently gave a warm welcome to a very cool arrival to the International Space Station: a new piece of hardware for the Cold Atom Lab, an experimental physics facility that ... more  
Hebrew U researcher cracks Newton's elusive '3-body' problemJerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." These laws laid the foundation to understand our ... more  
Self-Reflection Through StarlightTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 Students thought in silence as they worked out the age of a distant star. When it came time to vote on the answer, only about 50% of the class answered correctly. "Nope. You're not there yet. ... more 
New Image of Candy Cane-Shaped Feature in Center of Milky WayLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 A team of astronomers has produced a new image of an arc-shaped object in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The feature, which resembles a candy cane, is a magnetic structure that covers an enormo ... more |
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Laser-based prototype probes cold atom dynamicsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 By tracking the motions of cold atom clouds, astronomers can learn much about the physical processes which play out in the depths of space. To make these measurements, researchers currently use inst ... more 
NYU Abu Dhabi researcher discovers exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flaresAbu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 The discovery of terrestrial exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside the solar system, has been one of the most significant developments in modern astronomy. Several exoplanets lie in the "habi ... more 
Breathable atmospheres may be more common in the universe than we first thoughtLeeds UK (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 The existence of habitable alien worlds has been a mainstay of popular culture for more than a century. In the 19th century, astronomers believed that Martians might be using canal-based transport l ... more 
How does the Milky Way get its spiral formColumbia MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 A question that has long puzzled scientists is how our Milky Way galaxy, which has an elegant spiral shape with long arms, took this form. Universities Space Research Association has announced ... more  
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenonWashington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades. Karl Battams, a computational scie ... more |
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 Scientists closer to solving Newton's 'three-body problem' 
Laser-based prototype probes cold atom dynamicsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 By tracking the motions of cold atom clouds, astronomers can learn much about the physical processes which play out in the depths of space. To make these measurements, researchers currently use inst ... more  |
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Get ready for a new periodic tableJerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia's Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. "I saw i ... more 
Europe's exoplanet hunter blasts off from EarthParis (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite left Earth on Wednesday a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. ... more 
CHEOPS space telescope to investigate extrasolar planetsKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 17, 2019 On 17 December 2019 at 05:54 local time (09:54 CET), the European Space Agency (ESA) CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope is scheduled to lift off from Europe's spaceport in ... more 
Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxiesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ... more 
Short-lived light sources discovered in the skyStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 A project lead by an international team of researchers use publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the 1950s to try to detect and analyse objects that have disappeare ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft. It was the 22nd flyby during which the solar-powered spacecraft collected science data on the gas giant, soaring only 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above its cloud tops. The flyby also marked a victory for ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 
The discovery of terrestrial exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside the solar system, has been one of the most significant developments in modern astronomy. Several exoplanets lie in the "habitable zones" of stars, where planets are thought to be able to maintain liquid water on their surface, and have the potential to host life. However, an exoplanet that is too close to its host star is ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
Joanna Clark has been interested in geology ever since she was a child. Today, the University of Houston doctoral student is turning that curiosity into a career and getting noticed by NASA, which awarded her a $285,000 grant to develop a technique that could one day be used to better understand past climate conditions on Mars.
"We hope to have samples from Mars one day and when we do, we ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 16, 2019 
For the past decade, Russia has been working on its "Oryol" (Eagle) space ship intended for a lunar mission. The landing of Russian astronauts on the Moon is scheduled for 2030.
Overweight Russian astronauts won't be able to take part in the country's lunar mission aboard the Oryol space ship due to restrictions on the total weight of cargo the spacecraft will deliver to our planet's natur ... more |
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 Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But what makes this image special are the numerous faint dots filling the sky. These are distant galaxies like our own that have never been observed in radio light before.
To learn about the star-fo ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) mission, which will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth's weather, oceans and environment, real-time mapping of total lightning activity, and improved monitoring of solar activity and space weather. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 
A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades.
Karl Battams, a computational scientist in NRL's Space Science Division, discussed the results from the camera called Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) on Dec. 11 during a NASA press conference.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun's atmosphere, a prominence - a large loop of material launched by an eruption on the solar surface - started falling back to the surface of the Sun. But before it could make it, the prominence ran into a snarl of magnetic field lines, spark ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Dec 19, 2019 
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province will host around 20 launch missions in 2020, including two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), according to an official from the center.
Wang Zemin, deputy director of the launch center, made the remarks after China successfully sent two BDS satellites into space from Xichang on Monday.
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Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Dec 18, 2019
Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But what makes this image special are the numerous faint dots filling the sky. These are distant galaxies like our own that have never been observed in radio light before.
To learn about the star-fo ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel of human ingenuity - and their meaning a source of some mystery.
Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the communit ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 earlier this week. Starliner now stands poised at the launch pad awaiting its maiden flight on Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Pro ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica's snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth's atmosphere over the past century and a half, since the Industrial Revolution began burning fossil fuels on a massive scale.
While carbon dioxide and methane are well known, researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Rochester are part of a t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Providing potable drinking water to deployed troops operating in low resource or contested environments is no simple undertaking. Logistics teams face great risk delivering water and often incur what would otherwise be preventable casualties.
DARPA's new Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program sets out to sharply reduce that risk by giving deployed units the technology to capture potabl ... more |
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 Jerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." These laws laid the foundation to understand our solar system and, more broadly, to understand the relationship between a body of mass and the forces that act upon it. However, Newton's groundbreaking work also created a pickle that has baffled scie ... more |
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