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Two Unusual Older Stars Giving Birth To Second Wave Of Planets
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2008Hundreds of millions - or even billions - of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place, UCLA astronomers and colleagues believe. "This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselv ... more Ariane ATV Begins Fueling In The S5 Facility At Europe's Spaceport 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jan 11, 2008A new milestone in the preparation campaign for Ariane 5's first human-rated spacecraft passenger has been achieved with the start-up of fueling for the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). This process, which is being performed in the S5B fueling hall of the Spaceport's S5 payload preparation building, will load the ATV with two sets of propellants. With an overall height of approximately 10 ... more NASA Announces Servicing Mission Details At Astronomy Conference 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2008NASA scientists and a space shuttle astronaut today outlined details of a challenging mission that will repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope in 2008. The Hubble servicing mission, designated STS-125, will equip the orbiting observatory with far greater capabilities than ever had before to explore the nature and history of our universe. Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift o ... more Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight In The Moth 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2008This is not your typical flying insect. It has a wingspan of about 22 billion miles. The wing- like structure is actually a dust disk encircling the nearby, young star HD 61005, dubbed "The Moth." Its shape is produced by starlight scattering off dust. Dust disks around roughly 100-million-year-old stars like HD 61005 are typically flat, pancake-shaped structures where planets can form. But imag ... more NASA's Next Moon Mission Spacecraft Undergoing Critical Tests 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2008NASA's next mission to Earth's closest astronomical body is in the midst of integration and testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, known as LRO, will spend at least a year mapping the surface of the moon. Data from the orbiter will help NASA select safe landing sites for astronauts, identify lunar resources and study how the moon's envir ... more |
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Gainesville FL (SPX) Jan 11, 2008A University of Florida-led sky survey that may double the number of known planets outside the solar system is part of a major new survey program announced today at the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, slated to begin mid-year and end in mid-2014, consists of four independent surveys operated by the survey's consortium. One ... more IAEA seeks to soothe Pakistan ire over ElBaradei comments 
Vienna (AFP) Jan 10, 2008The UN atomic watchdog attempted Thursday to smooth over a spat with Pakistan over recent comments made by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei on the issue of nuclear safety. A spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency insisted that ElBaradei's comments were intended to "call attention to the need to bolster nuclear safety and security measures, not only in Pakistan, but also everywher ... more BMD Focus: Russian ABM warning -- Part 1 
Washington (UPI) Jan 9, 2008An editorial in a major Moscow newspaper Wednesday suggests the Kremlin may be preparing to step up its retaliatory systems capable of destroying U.S. anti-ballistic missile systems in Europe with pre-emptive strikes. The Bush administration has repeatedly insisted that the ABM systems to defend against intercontinental ballistic missiles that it is developing are not designed to neutra ... more NGC Names James Culmo VP Of Airborne Early Warning And Battle Management Programs 
Bethpage NY (SPX) Jan 11, 2008Northrop Grumman has announced the appointment of James Culmo as vice president of Airborne Early Warning/Battle Management Command and Control-Navy (AEW/BMC2-N) Programs. Culmo succeeds Thomas Vice who was named vice president of Integrated Systems Eastern Region in November 2007. Culmo, of West Islip, was most recently the AEW/BMC2-N Integrated Product Team deputy, a position instrumenta ... more US nuclear deals with North Korea, India in limbo 
Washington (AFP) Jan 9, 2008US deals to end North Korea's nuclear weapons drive and to bring India into the loop of global atomic commerce are in a limbo amid doubts they can be wrapped up before President George W. Bush leaves office in a year. The deal with North Korea under a six-nation agreement has been progressing well over the last year until Pyongyang failed to meet a December 31 deadline to fully declare its n ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) Jan 10, 2008Life in Australia's rugged outback could get even tougher when the effects of global warming bite, with extreme weather and outbreaks of exotic diseases in unexpected places, a new study suggests. The world's driest inhabited continent is predicted to be among the regions worst hit by climate change and is already grappling with a long-running drought thought by some researchers to be linked ... more Launch Of Fisker Premium Hybrid At North American International Auto Show 
Irvine CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2008Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide announced that its Fisker Automotive, Inc. joint venture will launch the Fisker Hybrid at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) to be held in Detroit, MI on January 19-27, 2008. The Fisker Hybrid sedan will be showcased in two locations at NAIAS, with the main display in the Oakland Hall at Booth OAK9 and a second sedan displayed tog ... more India's low-cost car may prove too high a price to pay 
Paris (AFP) Jan 10, 2008The launch Thursday of India's low-cost car at just 2,500 dollars points the way to a higher standard of living for the billions of people in the developing world but at the price of increased pollution, congestion and energy consumption. "Global growth is profiting" from the rapid growth of the Asian giants, China and India, and their catching up with the developed countries "should be welc ... more GM says China ventures notch sales record 
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 10, 2008US auto giant General Motors said Thursday its Chinese joint ventures had sold more than 1.03 million vehicles in China last year, a record annual sales mark in the country by a global automaker. Sales rose 18.5 percent over 2006, powered by its mini-van venture with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp and Wuling Motors, it said in a statement. SAIC-GM-Wuling sold 548,945 units, while GM's ... more Ireland to ban low-efficiency light bulbs 
Dublin (AFP) Jan 10, 2008Ireland is to ban the sale of traditional light bulbs from next year and promote the use of low-energy CFL bulbs, environment minister John Gormley said Thursday. He said the switch will see Ireland lead the way in Europe -- just as it taken the lead with its ban on smoking in public places and its levy on plastic shopping bags. "The ultimate aim of this measure is to increase energy eff ... more
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