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October 28, 2016

Breakthrough Listen to Search for Intelligent Life Around Tabby's Star
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2016
Tabby's star has provoked so much excitement over the past year, with speculation that it hosts a highly advanced civilization capable of building orbiting megastructures to capture the star's energy, that UC Berkeley's Breakthrough Listen project is devoting hours of time on the Green Bank radio telescope to see if it can detect any signals from intelligent extraterrestrials. "The Breakthrough Listen program has the most powerful SETI equipment on the planet, and access to the largest telescopes ... read more

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Last Bits of 2015 Pluto Flyby Data Received on Earth NASA's New Horizons mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from the Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safel ... more		15000 space rocks and counting The international effort to find, confirm and catalogue the multitude of asteroids that pose a threat to our planet has reached a milestone: 15 000 discovered - with many more to go. The number of c ... more		Preferentially Earth-sized Planets with Lots of Water Computer simulations by astrophysicists at the University of Bern of the formation of planets orbiting in the habitable zone of low mass stars such as Proxima Centauri show that these planets are mo ... more
				Detailed images of Schiaparelli and its descent hardware on Mars A high-resolution image taken by a NASA Mars orbiter this week reveals further details of the area where the ExoMars Schiaparelli module ended up following its descent on 19 October. The lates ... more		Juno Mission Exits Safe Mode, Performs Trim Maneuver NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its next close flyby of Jupiter. Mission controllers ... more

Spacecraft operation for the next generation When it comes to operating a spacecraft, there is just one simple rule: No spacecraft, no job! This is one of the first things that students were taught at the ESA Academy's Training and Learning Ce ... more		Research helps explain formation of ringed Lunar crater Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, scientists have shed new light on the formation of a huge bull's-eye-shaped impact feature on the Moon. The findings, ... more		Chinese defence minister tells US counterpart containing China 'futile' China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs Russian drones in Poland put NATO to the test		NASA awards prizes to Top 5 teams in 3rd round of Cube Quest Challenge NASA has awarded $30,000 to each of the five top-scoring teams in Ground Tournament-3 of the agency's small satellite Cube Quest Challenge. Cube Quest consists of a series of four Ground Tourn ... more
				Reaching for the stars: Latin America's emerging space powers Argentina and Brazil are Latin America's leading space-going countries, but Peru, Venezuela and Mexico are already breathing down their necks. Sputnik discussed this issue with Gustavo Henriquez dir ... more		Heartbeat Stars unlocked in new study Matters of the heart can be puzzling and mysterious - so too with unusual astronomical objects called heartbeat stars. Heartbeat stars, discovered in large numbers by NASA's Kepler space telescope, ... more

6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

Nuclear Plant Digitalization Conference - Nov 15-16 - Charlotte NC USA

Cluster's Advanced Age in Razor-Sharp Focus Researchers using advanced adaptive optics technology at the Gemini South telescope in Chile probed the depths of the highly compact globular cluster NGC 6624, revealing pinpoint images of thousands ... more		All-sky survey maps neutral hydrogen across Milky Way Two of the world's largest fully steerable radio telescopes, the 100-m dish at Effelsberg/Germany and the 64-m Parkes/Australia telescope, mapped the detailed structure of neutral hydrogen across th ... more		AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks		A dead star's ghostly glow The eerie glow of a dead star, which exploded long ago as a supernova, reveals itself in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula. But don't be fooled. The ghoulish-looking object s ... more
Cosmic horseshoe is not the lucky beacon Although the universe started out with a bang it quickly evolved to a relatively cool, dark place. After a few hundred thousand years the lights came back on and scientists are still trying to figur ... more		ESO captures highest resolution image of Eta Carinae yet An international team of astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope Interferometer to image the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever achieved. They found new and unexpected struct ... more		Star system caught in the act of forming close multiples For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a process, caused by gravitational insta ... more		Short mid-infrared pulses offer new tool for peering inside atoms and solids A newly developed laser pulse synthesizer that generates femtosecond pulses at mid-infrared (IR) wavelengths promises to provide scientists with a better view of the inner workings of atoms, molecul ... more

	Pushing the boundaries of magnet design For physicists, loss of magnetisation in permanent magnets can be a real concern. In response, the Japanese company Sumitomo created the strongest available magnet--one offering ten times more magne ... more		Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics For more than a century and a half of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, has been as close to inviolable as any law we know. In this universe, cha ... more

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