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Hunting For Milky Way's Heaviest StarsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 14, 2011 Like looking for Easter eggs in a lawn of long grass, the hunt for the Milky Way's most massive stars takes persistence and sharp eyes. In their stellar search through our Galactic backyard, astronomers have used powerful telescopes sensitive to X-ray and infrared radiation to find evidence for a substantial population of X-ray emitting massive stars. This image shows infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope near the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. Both outlined boxes contain an artificial ... read more |
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  ESA May Use Russian Technology In Nuke-Spaceship Project The European Space Agency (ESA) has no immediate plans for cooperation with Russia in creating nuclear-powered spacecraft for future missions to Mars, but is considering using Russian experience and ... more | .. |
  Putin Urges Ukraine To Join New Russian Space Center Project Ukraine should participate in the construction of the Vostochny Space Center in Russia's Far East, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Kiev on Tuesday. Russia currently uses two launch sites: Baik ... more | .. |
  Russia's Medvedev Gives State Honors To Cosmonauts President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday awarded state honors to some of Russia's most senior cosmonauts as Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. Fifty years ... more | .. |
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  Two Kinds Of Webb Telescope Mirrors Arrive At NASA Goddard It takes two unique types of mirrors working together to see farther back in time and space than ever before, and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have just received one of each type. ... more | .. |
 Yury Gagarin's Flight Remembered On the morning of April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit carrying the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, a citizen of the Soviet Union. YouReporter users and bloggers shar ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman To Test Heat Management System On ISS Northrop Grumman will use an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to test a new way to cool military satellite payloads. The payload, the Massive Heat Transfer Experiment (MHTEX ... more | .. |
  The PI's Perspective: Pinch Me! New Horizons is healthy and on course. In mid-March, our spacecraft passed the orbit of Uranus, more than 19 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. In fact, we're now almost 20 times as far from the ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military | .. |
  Mars Flight Possible After 2035 An interplanetary spacecraft for a flight to Mars will be created no earlier than 2025, and the maiden flight to the red planet is possible only after 2035, Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Anat ... more | .. |
  Russian Space Industry 'Falling Short' Of State Arms Goals Russia's space chief says its rocket industry is falling short of the goals set by the state arms procurement program. "Measures to ensure the implementation of the state arms procurement prog ... more | .. |
 Herschel Links Star Formation To Sonic Booms ESA's Herschel space observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Intriguingly, each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that ... more | .. |
  Geomagnetic Storm Subsiding April 12, 2011: A G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress, sparked by a high-speed solar wind stream which is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auror ... more |
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  Soviet space capsule sells for nearly $3 million A Soviet space capsule sold for nearly $3 million at auction to a Russian businessman in New York on Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin's historic conquest of space. ... more | .. |
 NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. The finding addresses que ... more | .. |
  Boeing Receives Contract for SM-3 IIB Concept Design Boeing has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB (SM-3 IIB). This $41.2 million, 32-month contract is for the concept definitio ... more | .. |
  Tracking Ballistic Missiles From 'Birth-to-Death' Two recent Ballistic Missile Defense System-wide (BMDS) tests involving the Northrop Grumman-built Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites showed that the satellite sy ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
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 Raytheon Delivers Record Number of Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles Raytheon Missile Systems business delivered a record number of Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles last year. The company's delivery of 366 ESSMs in 2010 more than doubled the previous year's total. " ... more | .. |
  MLD Test Moves Navy A Step Closer To Lasers For Ship Self-Defense Marking a milestone for the Navy, the Office of Naval Research and its industry partner have successfully tested a solid-state, high-energy laser (HEL) from a surface ship, which disabled a small ta ... more | .. |
  ESA Arctic Ice Campaign Takes Off To guarantee ESA's CryoSat mission is delivering the best data possible, scientists have set out on a major expedition to the Arctic - part of a collaborative effort between ESA and NASA to gather i ... more | .. |
 NASA space telescope in budget limbo NASA says its troubled James Webb Space Telescope, which could help find life out in space and insights into the early universe, likely won't launch until 2018. ... more |
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  Joint Polar Satellite System Program And The US Budget While our politicians are arguing over a FY 2011 budget that should have been passed by last September, many space programs of vital national interest are being delayed, and their futures are coming ... more | .. |
 Pulling Back The Sheets Melting ice sheets from Greenland and Antarctica has long been tied to rising sea levels. But these two sources are outpacing all others - including mountain glaciers and ice caps - to become the do ... more | .. |
  Scientists Find New Type of Mineral in Historic Meteorite NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in Dec ... more | .. |
 First Galaxies Were Born Much Earlier Than Expected Using the amplifying power of a cosmic gravitational lens, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. This result sheds new light on the ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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  Physicists Discover New Way To Visualize Warped Space And Time When black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. This warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists haven't b ... more | .. |
 The MELFI Shuffle: Contingency Planning For Preserving Samples The International Space Station is a unique laboratory, due to its microgravity environment, but it still shares similarities with Earth-bound research facilities. Both perform experiments as part o ... more | .. |
  Jeffrey Hoffman On The Space Shuttle At 30 Thirty years ago, on April 12, 1981, the U.S. Space Shuttle made its first voyage into space. Four years later, on the same date, rookie astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman made the first of his five flights ... more | .. |
 Gagarin As A Symbol Of Modernization "Let's go!" With these words Yuri Gagarin blasted off on a flight that would shock the world. How could a country still emerging from the devastation wrought by WWII accomplish such an incredible fe ... more |
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 Dark Skies For Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower In Early May Would you like to see a piece of Halley's comet? Now's your chance! Each spring as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley), the cosmic bits burn up in our atmosphere an ... more | .. |
 Meteorite Sprinkles On Fresh Baked Earth And Mars Bombardments of 'micro-meteorites' on Earth and Mars four billion years ago may have caused the planets' climates to cool dramatically, hampering their ability to support life, according to research ... more | .. |
 "I See Earth! It Is So Beautiful!" Today is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight into space. ESA is celebrating these five decades of human spaceflight with a collection of articles, videos and interviews. " ... more | .. |
 Retiring space shuttles go to four US museums Thirty years after the first space flight of the US shuttle program, NASA announced Tuesday the three retiring orbiters will take up residence as museum pieces in Florida, Virginia and California. ... more |
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