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Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds New Distant CometManoa HI (SPX) Jun 17, 2011 Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013. Originally found by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, on the night of June 5-6, it was confirmed to be a comet by UH astronomer Richard Wainscoat and graduate student Marco Micheli the following night using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. A preliminary orbit computed by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., shows that the ... read more |
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 UMD-Led EPOXI Science Team Publishes Latest Comet Findings Comet Hartley 2, is in a hyperactive class of its own compared to other comets visited by spacecraft, says a University of Maryland-led study published in the June 17 issue of the journal Science. T ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Provides New Data about Mercury After nearly three months in orbit about Mercury, MESSENGER's payload is providing a wealth of new information about the planet closest to the Sun, as well as a few surprises. The spacecraft e ... more | .. |
  Penn State expert determined to find life on Earth-like planets Thanks to popular Hollywood films like "E.T.," "Avatar" and "Super 8," life on other planets seems highly conceivable to people who have considered the idea that we are not alone in the universe. Ji ... more | .. |
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  A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. In the comic books, the diminutive Guardians of the Plan ... more | .. |
  CMU and Astrobotic Technology Complete Structural Assembly of Lunar Lander Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have completed structural assembly of the lunar landing craft that will deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon in 2014. The hal ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Confirms Theories, Sees Surprises at Mercury NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important clues to the origin of the planet and ... more | .. |
 Spectacular Hubble View of Centaurus A The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a close-up view of the galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's out-of-this-world location and world-class Wide Field Camera 3 instrument reveal a dramatic pictu ... more |
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China shuns calls to enter nuclear talks after US-Russia treaty lapses
Why did Xi hold back-to-back calls with Putin, Trump?
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  Pressure cooker for aircraft components arrives at DLR After a journey by sea and road that lasted over two weeks, the world's largest research autoclave has reached its destination at the German Aerospace Center in Stade. Road signs had to be taken dow ... more | .. |
  Space Leadership Council Publishes Satellite Broadband Report The Space Leadership Council has set out the role that satellite operators can play in delivering broadband to remote communities in the UK and worldwide. It can provide benefits to British citizens ... more | .. |
 Science Paper Details NASA Epoxi Flyby of Hyper Comet Comet Hartley 2's hyperactive state, as studied by NASA's EPOXI mission, is detailed in a new paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science. After visiting a comet and imaging distant ... more | .. |
  Countering Contamination for Mars Spacesuits To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredien ... more |
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  NASA's Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... more | .. |
  Keeping Cool With Heat Pipes on the Space Station What happens when electronics overheat? The short answer is: nothing good! In microgravity, natural convection does not occur, which makes cooling equipment a challenge. So how do you keep electroni ... more | .. |
 Poland will become the 20th member of ESA Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has signed a degree, which will begin the accession negotiations between Poland and the European Space Agency (ESA). Depending on the results of these negotiations, ... more | .. |
  Iran launches another satellite Iran has launched a Rasad Safir rocket, which carried and placed the Rasad satellite into low Earth orbit. ... more |
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Scaling rules for metamaterials promise better implants and safer devices
Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in space
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 Star-eating black hole sends flash from distant galaxy A bright gamma-ray flash seen in March came from a distant galaxy nearly four billion light years away where a Sun-sized star was being eaten by a black hole, US astronomers said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Iran to put a monkey into space: report Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country's top space official said after the launch of the Rassad-1 satellite, state television reported on its website on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  GMES operations another step closer Today, the European Commission has signed an agreement confirming the transfer of funds to ESA for the initial operations of the space component for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Securit ... more | .. |
  Shuttle program's end leaves pension bill NASA says it plans to spend about a half-billion dollars to refill the pension fund of a contractor who supplied workers to the U.S. space shuttle program. ... more |
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  US computer pioneer IBM turns 100 US technology pioneer IBM turns 100 years old on Thursday and while "Big Blue" is no longer the dominant player in the computer industry it remains a force to be reckoned with. ... more | .. |
  Lunar eclipse turns moon blood red The longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade turned the moon blood red on Thursday, giving stargazers around the world a rare visual treat. ... more | .. |
 MESSENGER Adjusts Its Orbit around Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its first orbit-correction maneuver to reset its periapsis altitude - the lowest point of MESSENGER's orbit about Mercury relative to the planet's sur ... more | .. |
 International Conference On Low-Cost Planetary Missions Devising ways to explore space in tight fiscal times tops the agenda of the 9th International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions, set for June 21-23, 2011, at the Johns Hopkins University App ... more |
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Engineered substrates sharpen single nanoparticle plasmon spectra
Single molecule devices push past silicon limits
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  Arianespace receives the next Ariane 5 for launch in 2011 The Spaceport's Final Assembly Building has welcomed its fourth Ariane 5 of 2011 as preparations in French Guiana advance for Arianespace's upcoming mission with the ASTRA 1N and BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R ... more | .. |
 Students Build Planet-Hunting Miniature Satellite Most college finals end up in a stack on a professor's desk. For one group of MIT students, however, their three-semester long project has a slightly different destination - outer space. The f ... more | .. |
 Space Shuttle Endeavour - A Lasting Legacy Space program employees, media and several hundred thousand spectators held their breath in rapt attention as the minutes ticked down to launch - then space shuttle Endeavour's main engines ignited ... more | .. |
 From Backpacking to Space Trekking Water - it's essential for life. When future space explorers venture beyond low Earth orbit, their only water supply will be on board their spacecraft. During the final space shuttle flight, NASA sc ... more |
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  Plasma Spectrometer Operations on Hold Mission managers for NASA's Cassini spacecraft suspended operation of the Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, after a series of voltage shifts on the spacecraft. They w ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Discover Earliest Black Holes Astronomers have been peering farther and farther into space, and back in time, using the world's most powerful telescopes to detect galaxies billions of light-years away that existed when the unive ... more | .. |
 End of Our Tether Tethers have been used in space for decades. They can help spacecraft to fly in close formation, as some surveillance satellites do. They can allow satellites to dip into the upper atmosphere, trans ... more | .. |
 Recalculating the Distance to Interstellar Space Scientists analyzing recent data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have calculated that Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier than ... more |
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