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  Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 Our Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from the Milky Way's center, according to astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC). From a great distance, our galaxy would look like a thin disk of stars that orbit once every few hundred million years around its central region, where hundreds of billions of stars, together with a huge mass of dark matter, provide th ... read more |
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Beyond Mars, the Mini MarCO Spacecraft Fall SilentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2019 Before the pair of briefcase-sized spacecraft known collectively as MarCO launched last year, their success was measured by survival: If they were able to operate in deep space at all, they would be ... more  
Aerospace Workforce Training - A National Mandate for 2019 and BeyondBethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 As the aerospace workforce ages, technology advances and space operations become more contested it is imperative to continually train engineers and managers to refresh and advance their knowledge ba ... more  
Magnetic north pole leaves Canada, on fast new pathWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 The position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole - used in navigation systems such as smartphones - is moving far faster than it has, sending scientists scrambling to put out a new model this week. ... more  
ASU scientists study organization of life on a planetary scaleTempe AZ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria. When astrobiologists study life, however, they have to consider not only individual organisms, ... more |
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Retreating snow line reveals organic molecules around young starTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori. A sudden outburst from this star is releasing molecules from the icy compounds in the planet fo ... more  
AIRS Captures Polar Vortex Moving in Over USPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 01, 2019 The U.S. Midwest has been gripped by the lowest temperatures it has seen in years. An unusually cold Arctic air mass, called a polar vortex, is responsible for the severe temperatures, which in many ... more  
India enlists France's Arianespace to replace dying satelliteNew Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 The replacement satellite, GSAT-31, will provide wide-beam coverage to facilitate communication over large oceanic regions including the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean using a w ... more  
Engineers build a soft robotics perception system inspired by humansSan Diego CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 An international team of researchers has developed a perception system for soft robots inspired by the way humans process information about their own bodies in space and in relation to other objects ... more  
Self-growing materials that strengthen in response to forceSapporo, Japan (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 A strategy inspired by the process responsible for muscle growth could lead to the development of stronger, longer-lasting materials. Hokkaido University researchers have developed a strategy ... more |
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Kite-blown Antarctic explorers make most southerly Galileo positioning fixParis (ESA) Feb 05, 2019 A kite-blown science expedition to the interior of Antarctica has made the most southerly positioning fixes yet made with Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system. Their measurements not o ... more  |
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A step closer to self-aware machinesNew York NY (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Robots that are self-aware have been science fiction fodder for decades, and now we may finally be getting closer. Humans are unique in being able to imagine themselves - to picture themselves in fu ... more  
Seed of moon's first sprout: Chinese scientists' endeavorBeijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2019 An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago. Li Fuguang was one ... more  
Visualization of regions of electromagnetic wave-plasma interactions surrounding the EarthKanazawa, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 It is known that in the space surrounding the Earth (the space up to the geostationary orbit altitude, called Geospace), there are natural trapped charged particles, Van Allen belts, that may affect ... more  
Russia to fly US Astronauts to ISS ahead of scheduleMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2019 Russia will fulfil a contract on flying the US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and bringing them back on the Russian Soyuz manned spacecraft in December of 2019, a month and a ha ... more 
Arianespace orbits two telecommunications satellites on first Ariane 5 launch of 2019Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 05, 2019 Arianespace has successfully orbited two telecommunications satellites: the Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 condosat for operators KACST and Hellas Sat; and GSAT-31 for the Indian Space ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2019 
Russia will fulfil a contract on flying the US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and bringing them back on the Russian Soyuz manned spacecraft in December of 2019, a month and a half ahead of schedule, a source in the Russian space industry told Sputnik.
"The previous version of the ISS flight program provided for the return of foreign astronauts, under a contract with th ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 05, 2019 
Arianespace has successfully orbited two telecommunications satellites: the Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 condosat for operators KACST and Hellas Sat; and GSAT-31 for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Arianespace's first launch of the year took place on Tuesday, February 5 at 6:01 p.m. (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2019 
Before the pair of briefcase-sized spacecraft known collectively as MarCO launched last year, their success was measured by survival: If they were able to operate in deep space at all, they would be pushing the limits of experimental technology.
Now well past Mars, the daring twins seem to have reached their limit. It's been over a month since engineers have heard from MarCO, which followe ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2019 
An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago.
Li Fuguang was one of the Chinese agricultural scientists whose years of hard work might one day help lead to a base and long-term human residence on the moon.
He was on the team that developed the cotton seeds c ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 
As the aerospace workforce ages, technology advances and space operations become more contested it is imperative to continually train engineers and managers to refresh and advance their knowledge base in order to keep the U.S. competitive. This challenge is further complicated by the fact that over the past few years roughly 40% of U.S. skilled tradesman have retired.
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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
A strategy inspired by the process responsible for muscle growth could lead to the development of stronger, longer-lasting materials.
Hokkaido University researchers have developed a strategy to fabricate materials that become stronger in response to mechanical stress - mimicking skeletal muscle growth. Their findings, published in the journal Science, could pave the way for long-lasting m ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria. When astrobiologists study life, however, they have to consider not only individual organisms, but also ecosystems, and the biosphere as a whole.
In astrobiology, there is an increasing interest in whether life as we know it is a quirk of the particular evolutionary history of the Earth ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
A large volcanic event was detected on Jupiter's moon Io using Jovian sodium nebula brightness variation, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters said.
"These results highlight the growing body of evidence that the traditional way of monitoring Io's volcanism - by looking for temperature changes on its surface caused by hot lava - is not able to reliably find these large gas release e ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
At least 15% of the world's inland surface water areas are covered by protected areas, according to a new study from the JRC.
This is close to the global target of 17% set out in Aichi Target 11 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
However, surface water protection is very unevenly distributed globally, still falling well b ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 
The position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole - used in navigation systems such as smartphones - is moving far faster than it has, sending scientists scrambling to put out a new model this week.
The magnetic North is the point at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically down.
The World Magnetic Model is critical to sea and military navigation - as well as our ubiquitous s ... more |
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 Columbus OG (The Conversation) Feb 04, 2019 
"Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original.
But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit company SpaceIL, will be a blockbuste ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2019 
What astronomers may describe as an exciting sighting, some may find frightening, as a huge and heavy alien body will come comparatively close to Earth in the early hours of 6 February.
Dubbed by NASA Asteroid 2013 RV9, the minor planet is expected to swing by Earth at 6.30am GMT (UTC) on Wednesday. The distance between the asteroid and Earth will constitute around 6,842,740 km, which is a ... more |
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 Athens, Greece (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
Plexscape, developers of Plex.Earth, one of the most popular tools for AutoCAD for the acceleration of architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) projects, and Bird.i, a start-up that combines the latest satellite imagery and artificial intelligence technology to provide valuable business insights, are on a mission to change the way engineering projects are being designed by opening up ac ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
On Jan. 19, 2019, just 161 days after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called aphelion. The spacecraft has now begun the second of 24 planned orbits, on track for its second perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun, on April 4, 2019.
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
How have stars and planets developed from the clouds of dust and gas that once filled the cosmos? A novel experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has demonstrated the validity of a widespread theory known as "magnetorotational instability," or MRI, that seeks to explain the formation of heavenly bodies.
The theory holds that MRI allows ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
According to one of the most fundamental principles in physics, an observer on a moving train uses the same laws to describe a ball on the platform as an observer standing on the platform - physical laws are independent on the choice of a reference frame. Reference frames such as the train and the platform are physical systems and ultimately follow quantum-mechanical rules.
They can be, fo ... more |
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