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VLT Survey Telescope Offer Spectacular Views Of Omega NebulaParis, France (ESO) Jun 08, 2011 The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope, with the huge 268-megapixel camera OmegaCAM at its heart, which is designed to map the sky both quickly and with very fine image quality. It is a visible-light telescope that perfectly complements ESO's VISTA infrared survey telescope. New images of the Omega Nebula and the globular cluster Omega Ce ... read more |
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  NASA releases first photo of shuttle docked in space NASA on Tuesday released the first ever pictures of a US space shuttle docked at the International Space Station, taken by astronauts aboard a departing Russian spacecraft last month. ... more | .. |
  'Dramatic' solar flare could disrupt Earth communications An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Soyuz heads to ISS carrying Russian, US, Japanese astronauts A Soyuz spacecraft lifted off on Tuesday with a Russian, a US and a Japanese astronaut aboard headed for the International Space Station (ISS). ... more | .. |
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  ALPHA stores antimatter atoms for nearly 17 minutes The ALPHA Collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has created and stored a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for up to 1,000 seconds (almost 17 ... more | .. |
  NASA Goes Below the Surface to Understand Salinity When NASA's Aquarius mission launches this week, its radiometer instruments will take a "skin" reading of the oceans' salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 inch (1 ... more | .. |
  Mitsubishi Electric to Double Satellite Production Capacity Mitsubishi Electric has announced that under a plan to double annual satellite production capacity from four satellites to eight, it will invest approximately 3 billion JPY to enlarge and upgrade it ... more | .. |
  Hot Towers in First Tropical Depression of the Eastern Pacific The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM has the ability to see rainfall rates and heights of thunderstorm clouds within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite confirme ... 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
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  Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System Jupiter, long settled in its position as the fifth planet from our sun, was a rolling stone in its youth. Over the eons, the giant planet roamed toward the center of the solar system and back out ag ... more | .. |
 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Catches "Surfer" Waves on the Sun Cue the surfing music. Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energ ... more | .. |
  Testing Spacesuits in Antarctica - part 3 Our wake-up call came at 8am (later than expected): the winds in Marambio were an incredibly strong 80-100 km/h (50-60 mph), and we were on hold, waiting for a break in the weather. Aside from the u ... more | .. |
 'Live' airborne astronomy I had already been working on the SOFIA project for some years, when back in 1998, a consortium of German research institutes (Max-Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy in Bonn, University of Cologne, ... more |
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 NASA Spending Shift to Benefit Centers Focused on Science and Technology Euroconsult along with the consulting firm Omnis have announced the findings of a study foreseeing a significant shift in NASA spending toward Earth science and R and D programs and away from legacy ... more | .. |
  KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband SATCOM Service Makes ECDIS Compliance More Affordable In a move to increase safety and efficiency at sea, the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) new Electronic Chart and Display Information System (ECDIS) regulations require certain commercial ... more | .. |
  Indra To Supply Satellite Communications Systems To Brazil's MoD Indra will provide rapid deployment satellite communications systems to Brazil's armed forces. The contract was awarded through public tender where Indra competed with the main companies of the sect ... more | .. |
 Aquarius to Study the Power of Sea Salt A new observatory is about to leave Earth to map a powerful compound of global importance: Common everyday sea salt. Researchers suspect that the salinity of Earth's oceans has far-reaching effects ... 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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 FOGE Reaches 10 On June 4th, the Federation of Galaxy Explorers (FOGE) celebrated its tenth anniversary with a formal gala event. For those of you who do not know about FOGE, it is a non-profit educational organiza ... more | .. |
 Romantis Goes Global Romantishas announced the formation of its new entity, Romantis Inc., headquartered in Montreal, Canada with offices in the United States. Romantis in close cooperation with the other group members ... more | .. |
 Three Satellites See Eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Volcano from Space NASA's Terra Satellite, the GOES-13 and GOES-11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Par ... more | .. |
  Building harmonious outer space to achieve inclusive development China hopes all countries would continue to strengthen open and inclusive international cooperation characterized by equality and mutual benefit and further improve related laws in outer space explo ... more |
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 MEASAT orders latest satellite from Astrium MEASAT Global Berhad has selected Astrium to build MEASAT-3b, a new satellite to augment its core Ku-band business in Malaysia, India and Indonesia. Planned to be launched in 2013 and positioned at ... more | .. |
 Astrophysicists use X-ray fingerprints to study eating habits of giant black holes By studying the X-rays emitted when superheated gases plunge into distant and massive black holes, astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have provided an important test of a long-st ... more | .. |
  Weizmann Institute Observatory Captures Images of a New Supernova Exploding stars are the "factories" that produce all the heavy elements found, among other places, in our bodies. In this sense, we are all stardust. These exploding stars - supernovae - are highly ... more | .. |
  New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same time, w ... 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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 Opportunity Studies Rock Outcrop Opportunity has exceeded 30 kilometers (nearly 19 miles) of odometry! The rover spent the last few sols investigating some exposed rock outcrop en route to Endeavour crater, now just a few kilometer ... more | .. |
 New Crew Members Prepare for Launch Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:12 p.m. EDT Tuesday (2:12 a.m. Wednesday, Baiko ... more | .. |
 Fly Your Thesis! 2011 campaign The second series of flights in ESA's 'Fly Your Thesis!' programme concluded recently. After many months of preparation, the 10-day campaign culminated with four student experiments making three par ... more | .. |
 A Salute to the Spirit of Mars The Voyagers are, perhaps, the best known example. Launched in the 1970s to explore the outer planets, the iconic spacecraft have zoomed far beyond their original targets to the edge of interstellar ... more |
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  Gliese's Hints of Habitability An international team of astronomers has ruled out transits of a water-rich or hydrogen-helium atmosphere planet for Gliese 581e. The host star itself is relatively quiet which means good news for t ... more | .. |
  Wake turbulence during cruising flight When aircraft fly, they generate turbulent airflow behind them known as 'wake turbulence', which can affect following air traffic. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfa ... more | .. |
 Science and Maintenance for Station Crew The three residents of the International Space Station were busy with science experiments and maintenance activities Friday as they await the arrival of three additional crew members. Joining ... more | .. |
  NASA, NSBRI Select 12 Proposals To Support Crew Health On Missions NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) of Houston will fund 12 proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performanc ... more |
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