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Images of Chi Cygni reveal Sol's fateCambridge MA (SPX) Dec 16, 2009 About 550 light-years from Earth, a star like our Sun is writhing in its death throes. Chi Cygni has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that it would swallow every planet out to Mars in our solar system. Moreover, it has begun to pulse dramatically in and out, beating like a giant heart. New close-up photos of the surface of this distant star show its throbbing motions in unprecedented detail. "This work opens a window onto the fate of our Sun five billion years from now, when it will near ... read more |
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Manchester, UK (SPX) Dec 16, 2009A University of Manchester scientist, working as part of an international team, has uncovered an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos. Dr Henner Busemann from The School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences has uncovered minute grains in stratospheric dust that may have formed inside stars that lived and died long before the birth of our sun. Dust ... more  
Beijing, China (RIA Novosti) Dec 16, 2009China has put into orbit its first public-welfare mini satellite, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported. Hope I was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province along with a remote-sensing satellite Yaogan VIII both on board a Long March 4C carrier rocket. The satellite will be used by students in China to study and experience aerospace science ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2009The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. At first glance, this may not appear to be connected to space technology, but large development projects and the state of Earth's environment are intrinsically linked. Global climate change is also an increasingly important challenge in overcoming poverty and advancing ... more |
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Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 16, 2009Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent ... more  
Cleveland OH (SPX) Dec 16, 2009Dying, for stars, has just gotten more complicated. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what a group of physicists is calling an electroweak star. Glenn Starkman, a professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University, together with former graduate students and post-docs De-Chang Dai and Dejan Stojkovic, now at the State ... more  
Washington (UPI) Dec 15, 2009 The U.S. space agency and Saudi Arabia say they've signed a joint agreement calling for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research. The agreement between NASA and Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology recognizes the Saudi Lunar and Near-Earth Object Science Center as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA's Ames Research ... more |
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  First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-Like Stars  EXPReS Hailed As "Extraordinarily Successful" And Influential To SKA Design  Astronomy Question Of The Week: Where Are The Nearest Islands Of Stars |
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