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  Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 Billions of years ago, asteroid collisions resulted in the ejection of fragments hundreds of kilometers across and sharing similar orbits. The resulting groups are known as asteroid families. Other asteroid groups formed as a result of rotational fission, which happens when a rapidly spinning body reaches critical rotation speed and splits into relatively small fragments only a few kilometers across. Scientists have always thought about fission clusters as entirely distinct from collisional ... read more |
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Researchers spy on planets as fluffy as cotton candyBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 Meet what may be the largest carnival delights known to science: the "super-puff" worlds of the Kepler 51 star system. As their confectionary name suggests, these planets are as lightweight as ... more  
The 'cores' of massive galaxies had already formed 1.5 billion years after the big bangTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion stars - has revealed that the 'cores' of massive galaxies in the Universe had formed already 1.5 billion years after the ... more  
Spitzer studies a stellar playground with a long historyPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2019 This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 light-years across. Home to an abundance of young stars ... more 
Data shows earliest supermassive black holes had plenty to eatWashington (UPI) Dec 19, 2019 Every since scientists found supermassive black holes in the early universe, they have been trying to figure out what they ate. ... more |
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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  
SDO sees new kind of magnetic explosion on sunGreenbelt 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 loo ... more 
Distant Milky Way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universeCharlottesville VA (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 ... more 
Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies far beyond previous beliefsCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Dec 18, 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) in ... more 
RIT and IAR observe pulsars for the first time from South AmericaRochester UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR) have collaborated to make the first pulsar observations from South America. A new paper published in Astr ... 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  |
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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  
Scientists closer to solving Newton's 'three-body problem'Washington (UPI) Dec 18, 2019 For more than three centuries, Newton's laws of motion have helped scientists understand the relationships between body of mass and the forces that act on it, like the forces acting on a planet orbiting the sun. ... 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Meet what may be the largest carnival delights known to science: the "super-puff" worlds of the Kepler 51 star system.
As their confectionary name suggests, these planets are as lightweight as cotton candy - literally. The fluffy globes are the lowest density exoplanets ever discovered beyond Earth's solar system.
"They're very bizarre," said Jessica Libby-Roberts, a graduate student ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2019 
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 light-years across. Home to an abundance of young stars, it has drawn the attention of astronomers for decades.
Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) instrument took this image during Spitzer's "cold mission," which ran from the spacecraft's ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
The Earth's inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped, according to new research that could help scientists better understand forces that affect the entire planet.
The snow is made of tiny particles of iron - much heavier than any snowflake on Earth's surface - that fall from the molten outer core and pile on top of the inner core, creating piles up to 200 miles thick that ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Billions of years ago, asteroid collisions resulted in the ejection of fragments hundreds of kilometers across and sharing similar orbits. The resulting groups are known as asteroid families.
Other asteroid groups formed as a result of rotational fission, which happens when a rapidly spinning body reaches critical rotation speed and splits into relatively small fragments only a few kilomet ... more |
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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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Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2019
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 light-years across. Home to an abundance of young stars, it has drawn the attention of astronomers for decades.
Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) instrument took this image during Spitzer's "cold mission," which ran from the spacecraft's ... 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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 Cape Canaveral (AFP) Dec 20, 2019  Boeing's Starliner spacecraft won't achieve its mission objective of docking with the International Space Station, NASA said Friday, dealing a blow to the agency's plans to end US dependence on Russian rockets for astronaut taxi rides. Officials said the autonomously flown capsule experienced a glitch involving its onboard clock that led it to burn too much propellant, forcing an early return to Earth on Sunday morning. ... 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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