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April 24, 2015

First exoplanet visible light spectrum
Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2015
The exoplanet 51 Pegasi b [1] lies some 50 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It was discovered in 1995 and will forever be remembered as the first confirmed exoplanet to be found orbiting an ordinary star like the Sun [2]. It is also regarded as the archetypal hot Jupiter - a class of planets now known to be relatively commonplace, which are similar in size and mass to Jupiter, but orbit much closer to their parent stars. Since that landmark discovery, more than 1900 exoplan ... read more

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Xinhua Insight: How China joins space club? Yu Jun aimed his telescope at a bright star in the night sky. A moment later, a dim light passed across it, along the very path foreign astronomy websites had forecast. "Dongfanghong-1," Yu Ju ... more		Can sound help us detect 'earthquakes' on Venus Detecting an "earthquake" on Venus would seem to be an impossible task. The planet's surface is a hostile zone of crushing pressure and scorching temperatures--about 874 degrees F, hot enough to mel ... more		Ariane 5 reaches the launch zone for next heavy-lift mission Arianespace has delivered another Ariane 5 to the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, positioning this workhorse heavy-lift vehicle for tomorrow's flight with a pair of telecommunica ... more
				Arianespace Flight VA222: THOR 7 and SICRAL 2 - launch delayed Ariane 5 has been authorized for its April 24 liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana, with the go-ahead for this upcoming mission - which will orbit the THOR 7 and SICRAL 2 telecommunications s ... more		Sentinel-2A arrives for Ariane Vega mission The latest in Europe's series of Sentinel Earth observation satellites landed at French Guiana earlier this week in preparation for its orbiting on an Arianespace Vega vehicle during June, while bui ... more

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NASA 3-D Prints First Full-Scale Copper Rocket Engine Part When you think of copper, the penny in your pocket may come to mind; but NASA engineers are trying to save taxpayers millions of pennies by 3-D printing the first full-scale, copper rocket engine pa ... more		Cameras at SLS Booster Test to provide critical data for first flight Dozens of cameras were rolling when the powerful, five-segment booster for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, fired up March 11 for a major ground test. Behind the scenes that day, a differ ... more		Space Operations Command takes control of Space-Based Infrared System UK aims to boost economic defences against security risks Air Force Leadership Stresses Modernization and Timely Congressional Funding		Soil Moisture Mission Produces First Global Maps With its antenna now spinning at full speed, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully re-tested its science instruments and generated its first global maps, a key ... more
				Space law is no longer beyond this world Space may be the "final frontier" but the legal ramifications of what happens in space are now very much a reality - and they've also become the subject of teaching and research at the University of ... more		Clyde Space and UNC to produce game-changing ocean monitoring tech Clyde Space is collaborating with an American university and a team of leading US-based scientists to develop a "game-changer" in vital new technology to study ocean biology. The Glasgow compa ... more

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Pulsing light may indicate supermassive black hole merger As two galaxies enter the final stages of merging, scientists have theorized that the galaxies' supermassive black holes will form a "binary," or two black holes in such close orbit they are gravita ... more		"Comb" detects terahertz waves with extreme precision Light can come in many frequencies, only a small fraction of which can be seen by humans. Between the invisible low-frequency radio waves used by cell phones and the high frequencies associated with ... more		Aral Sea's shrinkage boosts Central Asian dust emission by 7 percent Atomic-level study of brain protein opens door to new neurological treatments Desert soil microbes adapt to thrive in extreme dry conditions		Exploding stars help to understand thunderclouds on Earth How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer - how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence ... more
Russian Mission Control Adjusts ISS Orbit to Avoid Space Junk Russia's space agency Roscosmos adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) due to a threat of collision with fragments of a former spacecraft, a spokesperson for the Roscosmos Missi ... more		ICARUS neutrino experiment to move to Fermilab A group of scientists led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia will transport the world's largest liquid-argon neutrino detector across the Atlantic Ocean to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy' ... more		Black hole hunters tackle a cosmic conundrum Dartmouth astrophysicists and their colleagues have not only proven that a supermassive black hole exists in a place where it isn't supposed to be, but in doing so have opened a new door to what thi ... more		Quantum model reveals surface structure of water The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute in collaboration with IBM and the University of Edinburgh, has used a new quantum model to reveal the molecular struct ... more

	A cold cosmic mystery solved In 2004, astronomers examining a map of the radiation leftover from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave background, or CMB) discovered the Cold Spot, a larger-than-expected unusually cold area of the ... more		ALMA reveals intense magnetic field close to supermassive black hole Supermassive black holes, often with masses billions of times that of the Sun, are located at the heart of almost all galaxies in the Universe. These black holes can accrete huge amounts of matter i ... more

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