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A Surprisingly Bright SuperbubbleBoston MA (SPX) Sep 04, 2012 This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 160,000 light years from Earth. Many new stars, some of them very massive, are forming in the star cluster NGC 1929, which is embedded in the nebula N44, so named because it is the 44th nebula in a catalog of such objects in the Magellanic Clouds. The massive stars produce intense radiation, expel matter at high speeds, and race through their evolution to explode as ... read more |
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  Space-age food served up with seeds of success An eggplant the size of a basketball, and a cucumber half a meter long seem, at first glance, out of this world. They are, literally. Chinese scientists have created more than 120 varieties of plant ... more | .. |
  Building MLM Under Way at Khrunichev The Khrunichev Space Center continue to build the flight version of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) for the International Space Station. As of today, Khrunichev have mounted the ESA R ... more | .. |
  Space Center Chief Loses Job over Failed Launches Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Vladimir Nesterov as general director of the Khrunichev Space Center, the state press service reported on Monday. The Russian space industry has ... more | .. |
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  China Focus: Timeline for China's space research revealed A senior Chinese astronomer on Friday revealed a timeline for China's planned program of space research. In an interview with Xinhua, Zhang Shuangnan, an astrophysicist at the Institute of High Ener ... more | .. |
 Tiangong Orbit Change Signals Likely Date for Shenzhou 10 August 30, Tiangong 1's controllers raised its orbit by 11 kilometres, indicating that a target date for the Shenzhou 10 mission has probably been set. As August 30 dawned, Tiangong 1 was following ... more | .. |
  SES and Castor expand capacity to meet Southern Africa connectivity needs SES and Castor Networks has announced that the Dutch provider of teleport, VSAT and broadcasting services has signed a capacity expansion agreement on SES' NSS-7 satellite to meet the growing needs ... more | .. |
  NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. Images from the t ... more |
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Sateliot books Spanish Miura 5 launch for two next gen Trito satellites in 2027
Exolaunch to deploy five satellites on Spectrum mission from Norway
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 Sweet result from ALMA A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has spotted sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like star. This is the first time sugar been found ... more | .. |
 Moles, crabs and Moon dust: DLR at the ILA Space Pavilion Satellites with electric propulsion, a 'mole' for exploring the Martian subsurface, a mobile robot that moves sideways like a crab, a pinch of Moon dust and a hands-on medical experiment where test ... more | .. |
 Russia fires top space official over launch failures Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired the chief of a key state-run aerospace bureau following several launch failures, the Kremlin said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Los Alamos Provides Hope For Radiation Belt Storm Probes New Mexico, August 30, 2012-Los Alamos National Laboratory expertise in radiation detection and shielding is poised to help a national team of scientists better understand a mysterious region that c ... more |
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 Atlas 5 Launches Twin Radiaton Belt Probes NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes are flying in Earth orbit after a successful liftoff and ascent this morning. The probes launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 4:05 a.m. EDT a ... more | .. |
  Remote Sensing Satellite Sends First Earth Imagery Russia's remote sensing satellite Canopus-B, launched a month ago, has taken its first photos of the earth's surface, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. The imagery, which is ... more | .. |
 Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion Helps Understand Far-Off Galaxy Nature hath no fury like a dying star - and astronomers couldn't be happier...An international research team, led by Edo Berger of Harvard University, made the most of a dying star's fury to probe a ... more | .. |
  NASA's SOFIA to Embark on New Cycle of Science Observations The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, a joint program between NASA and the German Aerospace Center DLR, is set tobegin its first full cycle of science flights starting in N ... more |
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'Unprecedented' emissions maps will hone mitigation
Sudan's historic acacia forest devastated as war fuels logging
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 Russia Extends U.S. Agreement on Tax-Free Space Goods Russia's Cabinet of Ministers has instructed the Foreign Ministry to extend for an additional five years an agreement with the U.S. government on the tax-free delivery to and export of goods and tec ... more | .. |
 Las Cumbres Observatory spectrographs acquire target robotically Two identical FLOYDS spectrographs, installed in recent weeks at telescopes 6,000 miles apart, robotically acquired a supernovae target this week. Due to the level of precision required and the diff ... more | .. |
 OAD Shoots for the Stars The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) programme is announcing a number of exciting new partnerships that will assist with the IAU's decadal strategic ... more | .. |
 Suomi NPP Captures Smoke Plume Images from Russian and African Fires Powerful fires currently scorching parts of Russia and Africa sent up plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, images captured on Aug. 2, 2012, by the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite, Suomi Na ... more |
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  Tracking Shuttle Exhaust Reveals More Information About Atmospheric Winds On July 8, 2011 the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched for the very last time. On that historic day, as the world watched its last ascent up into orbit and commentators discussed the program's contribu ... more | .. |
 NASA-Funded Study Helps Untangle Methane Mystery Atmospheric methane is 20 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but is present in Earth's atmosphere at much lower levels. Because of its large potential impact on climate chang ... more | .. |
  NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. Th ... more | .. |
  Space-warping white dwarfs produce gravitational waves Gravitational waves, much like the recently discovered Higgs boson, are notoriously difficult to observe. Scientists first detected these ripples in the fabric of space-time indirectly, using radio ... more |
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 NO Releases Final Version of CCD Astrograph Star Catalog The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) has released the Fourth Edition of its USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC4), the most precise and comprehensive star catalog ever produced by ground-based i ... more | .. |
  Flags at half mast across US for Armstrong funeral Flags flew at half staff across the United States on Friday as family, friends and fellow astronauts gathered in Ohio to remember Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. ... more | .. |
  NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Changes its Orbit Earlier Thursday, navigators and mission controllers for NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter watched their computer screens as their spacecraft successfully performed its first deep-space maneuver. This ... more | .. |
  Marks of Laser Exam on Martian Soil The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side points in a target patch of soil, leaving the marks apparent in this before-and-af ... more |
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 Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater. Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimat ... more | .. |
 Astronauts Complete Second Expedition 32 Spacewalk NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide completed the second spacewalk of the Expedition 32 mission at 4:33 p.m. EDT Thursday. The ... more | .. |
 How Old are the First Planets? Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2012 To build a planet you need lots of rubble and that means lots of heavy elements - stuff more massive than atoms of hydrogen and helium. The elemental composition ... more | .. |
  NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf Planet NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. Th ... more |
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