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Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our GalaxyWashington DC (SPX) Nov 10, 2010 NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. "What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center," said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature ... read more |
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  China leads Asian thrust in research: UN Asia, led by China, is fast challenging America, Europe and Japan in spending on scientific research and development but still lags on key criteria of inventiveness, according to a UN report to be published on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Mystery missile vapor trail stumps Pentagon The US military said Tuesday it has detected no launch of a foreign military missile off the coast of California and offered assurances that whatever happened there posed no threat to the United States. ... more | .. |
  NASA begins examination of Discovery NASA says its engineers are investigating the fuel leak that delayed and then canceled last week's launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery. ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Resume Nominal Operations Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., expect the Cassini spacecraft will resume normal operations on Nov. 24. They have traced the steps taken by an onboard computer ... more |
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  Poking An Alien Pod Tracy Collier, an employee at Home Technologies in City Center at Oyster Point, Newport News, Virginia, was walking her employer's Westie around the Center's manmade lake when she saw a large, myste ... more | .. |
  NASA Study Quantifies Role Of Melt In Loss Of Old Arctic Sea Ice Since the start of the satellite record in 1979, scientists have observed the continued disappearance of older "multiyear" sea ice that survives more than one summer melt season. Some scientists sus ... more | .. |
  Global View of Fine Aerosol Particles Of all the pollution that fills our lungs on any given day, the most dangerous is the small stuff. Aerosol particle pollution-airborne solid particles and liquid droplets-comes in a range of sizes. ... more | .. |
 Iran lashes out at Russia for missile deal Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out Russia accusing it of "selling out" his country to the United States for scrapping a missile deal. ... more |
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  Israel delays deployment of 'Iron Dome' anti-rocket system Israel is to delay the deployment of its "Iron Dome" multi-million-dollar missile defence system until next year, a military source said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  Multi-Purpose UAVs To Get NG STARLite Radars Northrop Grumman has been selected to supply an additional 40 STARLite wide area surveillance radars featuring synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) capabilities f ... more | .. |
  Bulava Missile Program Faces Decision Time The decision to put Russia's Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile into service will be made by the country's leadership and only after the test program is complete, a government source said o ... more | .. |
 JAGM Team Verifies Rocket Motor During Flight Test Raytheon and Boeing have completed the third company-funded missile launch of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The test sets the stage for Raytheon and Boeing to enter engineering and manufac ... more |
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  U.S., Australia forge space defense ties Australia and the United States signed a landmark agreement paving the way for closer cooperation in the surveillance of space, tracking satellites and space junk. ... more | .. |
 Unique Insurance Products For NASA Commercial Crew Initiative Developed Space Partnership International ("SPI") has announced that it is offering a suite of space insurance products to support NASA's Commercial Crew Development ("CCDev") Initiative, the initiative, whic ... more | .. |
  The Secrets Of Ancient Martian and Terrestrial Atmospheres Chemists at UC San Diego have uncovered a new chemical reaction on tiny particulates in the atmosphere that could allow scientists to gain a glimpse from ancient rocks of what the atmospheres of the ... more | .. |
 Bringing a Bit of Mars Back Home If there is evidence of life on Mars, it will be found in the planet's rocks. And as most scientists who study Mars will tell you, the best way to learn about martian rocks is to bring a few back to ... more |
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 US, Australia sign space surveillance deal Australia and the United States on Monday signed an agreement to cooperate in surveillance of space, possibly expanding the reach of a US military network tracking satellites and space junk. ... more | .. |
  Fifth Ariane 5 Ready To Receive Its Satellite Payloads The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fifth heavy-lift mission of 2010 has moved to the Final Assembly Building at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where it will be fitted with a dual-passenger payload of t ... more | .. |
  China Announces Success Of Chang'e-2 Lunar Probe Mission Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Monday unveiled an image of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, photographed by Chang'e-2, marking the success of China's second lunar probe mission. Premie ... more | .. |
 Full Week Of Driving Past Set Of Craters It has been a week of driving for Opportunity. She drove on five of the last seven sols and covered over 400 meters (1,312 feet). As the rover makes her way toward Endeavour crater, she is taking a ... more |
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  The GEO Graveyard May Not Be Permanent Since the 1970s, a number of geostationary satellites have been placed in the so called "graveyard orbit," an orbit just above the GEO altitude, roughly 100 to 300 km. The sole purpose of this "buri ... more | .. |
 Tiangong Space Lab Spurs China Space PR Blitz In 2011, China will launch Tiangong 1, its first space laboratory. The flight of Tiangong has been openly discussed for years, and we have even seen video of the actual spacecraft being assembled. ... more | .. |
  BSkyB says hits 10 million customer landmark BSkyB, the pay-TV giant being courted by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., announced on Monday that it had reached its long-held target of 10 million household customers. ... more | .. |
 Pirate Chinese versions of Japan e-books sold online:reports Unauthorised Chinese versions of popular Japanese novels, including works by best-selling author Haruki Murakami, have been sold as e-books on Apple's online store, Japanese media have reported. ... more |
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