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  Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 A comet once thought to be a quiet dirty snowball cruising through the solar system becomes quite active when seen up close. Photography from the Rosetta mission reveals dancing gravel, whirling icy debris and transient, movable "depressions" on the smooth terrain of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Comet 67P). Alex Hayes '03, M.Eng. '03, associate professor of astronomy, presented the research at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting Dec. 10. Hayes described how the process of subli ... read more |
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Telescope upgrade, move will aid in search for exoplanetsIthaca NY (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 Thousands of planets orbiting stars other than our own - known as extrasolar planets, or exoplanets - have been detected and cataloged over the last 30 years. A new effort will set the stage for the ... more  
A stripped helium star solves the massive black hole mysteryNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of the Sun, in accor ... more  
First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy clusterParis (ESA) Jan 13, 2020 ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster - a never-before-seen behaviour that may be driven by turbulent merger events. Galaxy clusters are ... more 
Experiment on beta-decay sheds light on fate of intermediate-mass starsDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 A group of scientists, among them several from GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung and from Technical University of Darmstadt, succeeded to experimentally determine characteristics of nucl ... more |
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SDSU astronomers pinpoint two new 'Tatooine' planetary systemsSan Diego CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2020 Astronomers announced Monday the first discovery made by NASA's TESS mission of a two-star planetary system. Led by researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University, ... more 
Milky Way's impending galactic collision is already birthing new starsNew York NY (SPX) Jan 08, 2020 The outskirts of the Milky Way are home to the galaxy's oldest stars. But astronomers have spotted something unexpected in this celestial retirement community: a flock of young stars. More sur ... more 
Hubble surveys gigantic galaxyGarching, Germany (SPX) Jan 07, 2020 To kickstart the 30th anniversary year of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble has imaged a majestic spiral galaxy. Galaxy UGC 2885 may be the largest known in the local universe. It is 2.5 t ... more 
Indeterminist physics for an open worldGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 08, 2020 Classical physics is characterised by the precision of its equations describing the evolution of the world as determined by the initial conditions of the Big Bang - meaning there is no room for chan ... more 
Goldilocks stars are best places to look for lifeBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2020 In the search for life beyond Earth, astronomers look for planets in a star's "habitable zone" - sometimes nicknamed the "Goldilocks zone" - where temperatures are just right for liquid water to exi ... more |
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Light elements add weighty burden to crisis in cosmologyMiddlesex NJ (SPX) Jan 09, 2020 A bedrock prediction of the Big Bang theory has been contradicted by abundant observations, according to a new study to be reported at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, deepenin ... more  |
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Two supermassive black holes caught in a galaxy crashCharlottesville VA (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to create the most detailed image yet of the gas surrounding two supermassive black holes in a mergi ... more 
Hubble sights galaxy's celestial sequinsBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 This smattering of celestial sequins is a spiral galaxy named NGC 4455, located in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). This might sound like an odd name for a constellati ... more 
Cosmic bubbles reveal the first starsTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 Astronomers using the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a program of NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, have identified several overlapping bubbles of h ... more 
Experiments into amorphous carbon monolayer lend new evidence to physics debateNashville TN (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 Plastic, glass and gels, also known as bulk amorphous materials, are everyday objects to all of us. But for researchers, these materials have long been scientific enigmas - specifically when it come ... more 
Scientists transform a BBQ lighter into a high-tech lab deviceAtlanta GA (SPX) Jan 10, 2020 Researchers have devised a straightforward technique for building a laboratory device known as an electroporator - which applies a jolt of electricity to temporarily open cell walls - from inexpensi ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2020 
In the search for life beyond Earth, astronomers look for planets in a star's "habitable zone" - sometimes nicknamed the "Goldilocks zone" - where temperatures are just right for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface to nurture life as we know it.
An emerging idea, bolstered by a three-decade-long set of stellar surveys, is that there are "Goldilocks stars" - not too hot, not too coo ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 10, 2020 
All kinds of geological formations on Mars, alluvial fans, dry lake beds and eroded river valleys, suggest the Red Planet once hosted an abundance of water. Today, the water is mostly gone. What's left is largely locked up in the planet's polar ice caps.
Scientists have been trying to figure out where all the water went and how fast it disappeared. New research, published this week in t ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2020 
China's lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 357.695 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory.
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 13th lunar day on Thursday (Beijing time), and switched to dormant mode for the lunar night, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China Nat ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 08, 2020 
The outskirts of the Milky Way are home to the galaxy's oldest stars. But astronomers have spotted something unexpected in this celestial retirement community: a flock of young stars.
More surprising still, spectral analysis suggests that the infant stars have an extragalactic origin. The stars seemingly formed not from material from the Milky Way, but from two nearby dwarf galaxies known ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 13, 2020 
ESA's Aeolus satellite has been returning profiles of Earth's winds since 3 September 2018, just after it was launched - and after months of careful testing these measurements are considered so good that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is now using them in their forecasts.
The decision to include new measurements in weather forecasts is never taken lightly; it takes ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2020 
NASA's Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This "bonus" science exploration opportunity for the project was discovered using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 in September 2018, December 2019, and January 2020.
Launching in October 2021, Lucy wi ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
A Florida Tech physicist has been awarded a $550,000 NASA grant to try to solve one of astronomy's most vexing and dangerous problems: predicting when and where harmful doses of solar energetic particle radiation will occur.
Whether from solar flares, solar wind, corona mass ejections or other phenomena, radiation from solar energy particles can affect astronauts working in space, spacecra ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2020 
China's aerospace industry will see a busy year in 2020, with the number of space launches expected to exceed 40, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
The highlights of the space activities include the launch of China's first Mars probe, the Chang'e-5 lunar probe, which is expected to bring moon samples back to Earth, the final step of China's current ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Jan 08, 2020
The outskirts of the Milky Way are home to the galaxy's oldest stars. But astronomers have spotted something unexpected in this celestial retirement community: a flock of young stars.
More surprising still, spectral analysis suggests that the infant stars have an extragalactic origin. The stars seemingly formed not from material from the Milky Way, but from two nearby dwarf galaxies known ... more |
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 Kent UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 
Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 - 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools, according to a new study by University of Kent and UCL.
The research, published in the Journal of Royal Society Interface, shows that Palaeolithic hominins selected different raw materials for different stone tools based on how sharp, durable ... more |
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 Houston (AFP) Jan 12, 2020 
Jasmin "Jaws" Moghbeli earned her fierce nickname during her time as a decorated helicopter gunship pilot who flew more than 150 missions in Afghanistan.
The Marine Corps major, MIT graduate and college basketball player can now add another accomplishment to her burgeoning resume: the first Iranian-American astronaut.
Speaking to AFP after graduating in NASA's latest cohort, the 36-year ... more |
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 Shisper Glacier, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 10, 2020 
The villagers of Hassanabad live in constant fear.
Above them the vast Shisper glacier dominates the landscape: A river of jagged black ice moving towards them at as much as four metres per day.
Climate change is causing most glaciers worldwide to shrink, but due to a meteorological anomaly this is one of a few in the Karakoram mountain range in northern Pakistan that are surging.
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 
A researcher at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has helped design a sea-going robot to deploy research equipment in remote and inaccessible ocean locations.
The AutoNaut - an unmanned surface vessel - has been specially-adapted to carry and release an underwater Seaglider. The gliders carry a range of sensors to collect data for research on ocean processes that are important for climat ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 07, 2020 
On April 25, 2019, the LIGO Livingston Observatory picked up what appeared to be gravitational ripples from a collision of two neutron stars. LIGO Livingston is part of a gravitational-wave network that includes LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the European Virgo detector.
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