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January 11, 2015
IRON AND ICE
Dawn of a strange new world
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2015
NASA's Dawn mission is closing in on a mysterious, unknown world in the asteroid belt. The dwarf planet Ceres named after the Roman goddess of agriculture awaits to unlock its secrets. So far, we've only had a glimpse of this enigmatic orb using the Hubble Space Telescope, so it's more than intriguing what we will find there after Dawn's arrival. Marc Rayman, the Mission Director and Chief Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, can't hide his contagious excitement: "Everyone should be excit ... read more
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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX launches cargo to ISS, rocket ocean landing fails
A first-ever attempt to recycle a rocket by guiding the Falcon 9's first stage down to a precision landing on an ocean platform failed on Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said. ... more
MARSDAILY

Mars is warmer than some parts of the U.S. and Canada
On Thursday, the daily high temperature at Gale Crater - a depression in the northwestern portion of Mars' Aeolis quadrangle - climbed to negative 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 degrees Fahrenheit). It was like a sauna for the Mars rover Curiosity, which is used to temperatures that often dip below minus 100 degrees Celsius. ... more
IRON AND ICE

See comet Lovejoy with the naked eye this weekend
Comet Lovejoy - or more officially, C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy - is named for the Australian amateur astronomer who spotted the glowing green ball just last year. Terry Lovejoy spied the comet through his eight-inch telescope in his backyard. ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

Machines Teach Astronomers About Stars
Astronomers are enlisting the help of machines to sort through thousands of stars in our galaxy and learn their sizes, compositions and other basic traits. The research is part of the growing field ... more


SPACE SCOPES

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield is Taking Shape
ManTech International has announced that its NeXolve subsidiary has completed manufacturing and shape testing of the first layer of the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield system. NeXolve is subc ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

Map of Mysterious Molecules Sheds New Light on Century-old Puzzle
By analyzing the light of hundreds of thousands of celestial objects, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have created a unique map of enigmatic molecules in our galaxy that are res ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Novel vision of the death of massive stars
An international consortium, in which the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Ikerbasque and CSIC are participating, has published in a single article a compendium of data obtained after the ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact
Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement
CAR TECH

Do sports cars have a future in a driverless world?
Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Bugatti. The prestigious names embody performance and luxury across the automotive world. ... more
SUPERPOWERS

US scaling back bases in Europe in cost-cutting move
The US military said Thursday it will close a major air base in Britain and withdraw from 14 other installations across Europe as part of a reorganization of forces to save money. ... more
TECH SPACE

Responsive material could be the 'golden ticket' of sensing
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new self-assembled material, which, by changing its shape, can amplify small variations in temperature and concentration of biomolecules ... more
Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz


ENERGY TECH

Nanowire could keep people warm
To stay warm when temperatures drop outside, we heat our indoor spaces - even when no one is in them. But scientists have now developed a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both generate he ... more
CHIP TECH

Shedding light on why blue LEDS are so tricky to make
Scientists at UCL, in collaboration with groups at the University of Bath and the Daresbury Laboratory, have uncovered the mystery of why blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are so difficult to make, ... more
24/7 News Coverage
Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide
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Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist
JOVIAN DREAMS

Juno on its way to unveil Jupiter's mysteries
The gas giant Jupiter safeguards many secrets crucial to our understanding of the evolution of our solar system. It could also provide insights on how giant planets form and the role these titans pl ... more
ABOUT US

Sun may determine lifespan at birth: study
Could the Sun be your lucky - or unlucky - star? ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Where Did All The Stars Go
Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new ESO image. But the black gap in this glitteringly beautiful star field is not really a gap, but rather a region of space clogged with ga ... more
UAV NEWS

Drones swoop into electronics show as interest surges
On a dusty stretch of Nevada desert, a quadcopter drone kicks up a small cloud as it takes off. It then trails its operator on a drive across the flat terrain, filming the motion from a short distance above. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

"Assassin" Targets Supernovae in Our Neighborhood
While many astronomical collaborations use powerful telescopes to target individual objects in the distant universe, a new project at The Ohio State University is doing something radically different ... more

LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX to attempt rocket, cargo launch Saturday
SpaceX will try again Saturday to launch its Falcon 9 rocket, propelling the Dragon cargo ship toward the International Space Station and then attempting its first landing on an ocean platform. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Andromeda Hints at More Violent History than Milky Way
A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy has found striking differences from our own Milky Way, suggesting a more violent history of merge ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Disappearance of a Cosmic Spinning Top

TIME AND SPACE

New light shed on electron spin flips

ENERGY TECH

Aquion Energy to build microgrid battery system in Hawaii

SPACE TRAVEL

Sporty tech gadgets put data in users' hands

SPACE TRAVEL

Consumer tech show spotlights gadgets for healthy living

EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Satellite Set to Get the Dirt on Soil Moisture

SATURN DAILY

Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy

TIME AND SPACE

Will the Real Monster Black Hole Please Stand Up?

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Flashes from faster-than-light spots unveil astronomical secrets

SATURN DAILY

More accurate Saturn positioning helps improve astro navigation

Vanishing neutron star helps measure space-time warp

Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos

Navy orders rail gun battery system fron K2 Energy Solutions

NASA Robot Plunges Into Volcano to Explore Fissure

A New, Public View of the Sky

SDSS: Sloan Survey Opens New Public View of the Sky

Rosetta in 2015

CfA: Eight New Planets Found in "Goldilocks" Zone

NASA observatories combine to observe Eta Carinae

Comet Lovejoy Glows Brightest During Mid-January

Planet-hunting satellite observes supermassive black hole

Unusual Light Signal Hints at Distant Black Hole Merger

Study casts doubt on mammoth-killing cosmic impact

GAO denies Sierra Nevada protest, OKs NASA crew contracts

N. Korea has 'significant' tech to build mini nuclear device: South

New technology focuses diffuse light inside living tissue

The fractional quantum Hall effect helps progress computing applications

June 30 will be one second longer this year

NASA closer than ever to finding Earth's 'twin'

Eight new planets found in 'Goldilocks' zone

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