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January 30, 2014

Solving a 30-year-old problem in massive star formation
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2014
An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe. Young massive stars, which have more than 10 times the mass of the Sun, shine brightly in the ultraviolet, heating the gas around them, and it has long been a mystery why the hot gas doesn't explode outwards. Now, observations made by a team of researchers using the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a radio astronomy o ... read more

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NGC Completes Critical Design Review For James Webb Space Telescope Northrop Grumman has passed the last significant mission design milestone for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft Critical Design Review (CDR), five months ahead of schedule, following ... more		Arianespace supports EU space policy Stephane Israel, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, participated in the 6th European Conference on Space Policy, which took place in Brussels on January 28. He thanked the European Commissions for exp ... more		FAA Grants Waypoint 2 Space Safety Approval Of Training Programs Waypoint 2 Space has announced it has received FAA safety approval for its highly anticipated training services that will begin late spring of 2014. The FAA safety approval solidifies Waypoint ... more
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NASA Ramps Up Space Launch System Sound Suppression Testing The first round of acoustic tests on a scale model of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is underway. The tests will allow engineers to verify the design of the sound suppression system being develope ... more		UCSC Scientists Capture First Cosmic Web Filaments at Keck Observatory Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Res ... more		EU states to hold talks on 'drone wall' to protect bloc Denmark military intel fails to identify source of drone flights Lithuania eases rules on shooting down drones		A Proposal For The Space Debris Society Almost every constituency of the space community has a society representing the interests of that group. However, there is no such organization for those of us who are interested in space debris. If ... more
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