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  Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away. It released five times more energy than the previous record holder. Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, said the event was extraordinarily energetic. "We've ... read more |
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Suited up for gravityParis (ESA) Feb 28, 2020 When it comes to grasping an object, our eyes, ears and hands are intimately connected. Our brain draws information from different senses, such as sight, sound and touch, to coordinate hand movement ... more  
Large Exoplanet Could Have the Right Conditions for LifeCambridge UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. ... more  
OceanGate working with NASA to develop new carbon fiber pressure vesselsEverett WA (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 NASA and OceanGate have entered into an agreement to collaborate in the development, manufacturing and testing of new carbon fiber pressure vessels. The resulting pressure vessel will be used for th ... more  
Book Review: Alcohol in Space - Past, Present and FutureColorado Springs CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 This book is a genuine treasure, focused on the making and consumption of alcohol throughout history...with a new upshot - the growing role of alcohol production in low Earth orbit (LEO) - or should ... more |
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Gemini South telescope captures exquisite planetary nebulaHilo HI (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of a giant star and is a glorious but relativ ... more 
New clues in the search for the oldest galaxies in the universeVictoria, Canada (The Conversation) Feb 26, 2020 A galaxy cluster can be likened to a great city of galaxies, a galactic conurbation where each galaxy represents an individual, twinkling structure. Just as an archaeologist might seek evidence of t ... more  
NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate RecordWashington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosph ... more 
The link between gravity and solitonMatsumoto, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 How did the universe begin? How does quantum mechanics, the study of the smallest things relate to gravity and the study of big things? These are some of the questions physicists have been working t ... more  
Picturing permafrost in the ArcticParis (ESA) Feb 27, 2020 Permafrost plays an important role in the global climate and is also one of the components of the Earth system that is most sensitive to global warming. Maps, produced by ESA's Climate Change Initia ... more |
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Abandoned cropland helps make Europe coolerOslo, Norway (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 If you've ever sat in the cool shade of a tree on a hot summer day, you already know that shaded areas are cooler than open fields. But is that kind of cooling enough to make a difference in the hot ... more  |
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Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstaclesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 A key hurdle facing fusion devices called stellarators - twisty facilities that seek to harness on Earth the fusion reactions that power the sun and stars - has been their limited ability to maintai ... more  
VTT develops a Small Modular Reactor for district heatingHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 VTT launched the Finnish development of a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) intended for district heat production. The first phase of the project will involve the conceptual design of a nuclear power plan ... more 
GE Hitachi Progresses Vendor Design Review in Canada for BWRX-300 Small Modular ReactorWilmington NC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) report sthat it has made the first submittal to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for the Vendor Design Review (VDR) of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor ... more  
Mission Control to Develop Lunar Surface Autonomous Science Payload for CSAOttawa, Canada (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Mission Control Space Services Inc. (Mission Control) is pleased to announce a contract awarded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for the development of a novel payload to advance lunar scientific ... more 
Virgin Galactic opens up prebooking booking optionSpaceport America NM (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Virgin Galactic reports that in preparation for the re-opening of spaceflight sales, it is introducing the One Small Step initiative. The company formally closed its doors to new ticket sales after ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 
Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said.
Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of three black women who worked at NASA.
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 Elkton MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation, along with NASA and Lockheed Martin, successfully completed its third and final qualification test of the Attitude Control Motor (ACM) for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS).
"The qualification test is a critical step toward Artemis II, Orion's first flight with astronauts," said Pat Nolan, vice president, missile products, Northrop Grumman. "Co ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 
After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down on the "mole," the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole's top, also called the back cap, will ke ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
Europlanet has launched a 10 million Euro project, the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), to provide open access to the world's largest collection of planetary simulation and analysis facilities, as well as a global network of small telescopes, data services, and community support activities. Europlanet 2024 RI aims to widen participation in planetary science and provides the infrastr ... more |
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 Everett WA (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
NASA and OceanGate have entered into an agreement to collaborate in the development, manufacturing and testing of new carbon fiber pressure vessels. The resulting pressure vessel will be used for the deep-sea submersibles.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will serve as the facility where the development and manufacturing of a new aerospace-grade hull is completed ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
A team from the University of Cambridge used the mass, radius, and atmospheric data of the exoplanet K2-18b and determined that it's possible for the planet to host liquid water at habitable condi ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030, JUICE will spend at least three years making detailed observations in the Jovian system before going ... more |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Massive freshwater river flows stemming from glacier-fed flooding at the end of the last ice age surged across eastern Washington to the Columbia River and out to the North Pacific Ocean, where they triggered climate changes throughout the northern hemisphere, new research published in Science Advances shows.
The findings provide new insight into the role the North Pacific Ocean plays in t ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 27, 2020 
Four new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have recently passed tests in orbit and joined the system to provide positioning, navigation and timing services.
The four satellites include the 47th, 48th, 52nd and 53rd satellites of the BDS family, according to China's Satellite Navigation System Management Office.
All of them, operating in medium Earth orbit, we ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile robot that will look for water ice at one of the Moon's poles.
During its mission, VIPER will roam several miles and use its four science instruments - including a 1-meter drill - to sample vario ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Planetary scientists at Curtin University have shed some light on the tumultuous early days of the largely preserved protoplanet Asteroid 4 Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System.
Research lead Professor Fred Jourdan, from Curtin University's school of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said Vesta is of tremendous interest to scientists trying to understand more about what plane ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted. This radiation balance is a key factor in determining our climate: if Earth absorbs more heat than it emits, it warms up; if it emits more than it ... more |
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR sensing and detection in self-driving cars, satellite mapping systems, deep-space communications and medical imaging of the human retina.
The work, led by Yuping Huang ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the light of subatomic particles produced by the collisions. But as one might expect, these grand-scale experiments don't come cheap.
In a paper recently accepted by Physical Review Letters, an international te ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang.
The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away.
It released five times more energy than the previous record holder.
Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, from the Curtin University node of the ... more |
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