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September 05, 2014

Cosmic forecast: Dark clouds will give way to sunshine
Paris (SPX) Sep 05, 2014
Lupus 4 is located about 400 light-years away from Earth, straddling the constellations of Lupus (The Wolf) and Norma (The Carpenter's Square). The cloud is one of several affiliated dark clouds found in a loose star cluster called the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association. An OB association is a relatively young, yet widely dispersed grouping of stars. The stars likely had a common origin in a gigantic cloud of material. Because the association, and its Lupus clouds, form the closest such group ... read more

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International Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Data Goes Public The most accurate and comprehensive collection of rain, snowfall and other types of precipitation data ever assembled now is available to the public. This new resource for climate studies, weather f ... more		Hawaii scientist maps, names Laniakea, our home supercluster of galaxies University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer R. Brent Tully, who recently shared the 2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize and the 2014 Victor Ambartsumian International Prize, has led an international team of as ... more		China launches two satellites via one rocket A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying Chuangxin-1-04 flies in the sky at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 4, 2014. China successfully launched t ... more
				Engineers Conduct Low Light Test On Webb Telescope Component NASA engineers inspect a new piece of technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope, the micro shutter array, with a low light test at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary ... more		Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday A small asteroid, designated 2014 RC, will safely pass very close to Earth on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. At the time of closest approach, based on current calculations to be about 2:18 p.m. EDT (11:18 a ... more

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GPM Mission's How-to Guide for Making Global Rain Maps In a data-processing room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, racks of high-powered computers are making a set of maps. They're not the familiar satellite map of farms, for ... more		Expedition 40 Heads Into Final Week on ISS Biomedical research and preparations for the departure of three crew members were the focus of activities Wednesday aboard the International Space Station as the six Expedition 40 astronauts and cos ... more		Pentagon chief pushes for donation of more Patriot systems to Kyiv Millennium Space Systems secures $414 million contract from Space Development Agency Galileo satellite constellation expands with two new additions		Robotic Satellite-Servicing Capabilities in Geostationary Earth Orbit An increasing number of expensive, mission-critical satellites are launched every year into geostationary Earth orbit (GEO), approximately 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the Earth. Unlike ob ... more
				Researcher advances a new model for dark matter Astrophysicists believe that about 80 percent of the substance of our universe is made up of mysterious "dark matter" that can't be perceived by human senses or scientific instruments. "Dark m ... more		Researchers Discover New Clues to Determining the Solar Cycle Approximately every 11 years, the sun undergoes a complete personality change from quiet and calm to violently active. The height of the sun's activity, known as solar maximum, is a time of numerous ... more

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China Sends Life to Moon Later this year, China will launch a spacecraft to the Moon and back. A scale replica of the Shenzhou astronaut capsule will be carried atop a boxy spacecraft based on the Chang'e lunar orbiter, and ... more		Four Decades of Sea Ice From Space: The Beginning One of the most visible signs of climate change in recent years was not even visible at all until a few decades ago. The sea ice cap that covers the Arctic Ocean has been changing dramatically ... more		Norway moves forward on controversial deep-sea mining Indonesia volcano eruption shuts more airports, ash reaches Malaysia Heavy rains leave 5 dead, 18 missing in southern Brazil		Surface level ultraviolet spectra of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko obtained NASA's Alice ultraviolet (UV) spectrograph aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta comet orbiter has delivered its first scientific discoveries. Rosetta, in orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Geras ... more
How much gravity is enough? Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a new study by an international team of researchers ... more		Single laser stops molecular tumbling motion instantly In the quantum world, making the simple atom behave is one thing, but making the more complex molecule behave is another story. Now Northwestern University scientists have figured out an elega ... more		Computer simulations visualize ion flux Ion channels are involved in many physiological and pathophysiological processes throughout the human body. A young team of researchers led by pharmacologist Anna Stary-Weinzinger from the Departmen ... more		Nanoscale assembly line Cars, planes and many electronic products are now built with the help of sophisticated assembly lines. Mobile assembly carriers, on to which the objects are fixed, are an important part of these ass ... more

	UO-Berkeley Lab unveil new nano-sized synthetic scaffolding technique Scientists, including University of Oregon chemist Geraldine Richmond, have tapped oil and water to create scaffolds of self-assembling, synthetic proteins called peptoid nanosheets that mimic compl ... more		Historic comet landing site to be unveiled on Sept 15 The European Space Agency (ESA) will on September 15 unveil which of five possible sites it has chosen for the first-ever landing of a probe from Earth on a comet, it said Thursday. ... more

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