ottobre 2018

AstroNews 10/2018

Un elenco aggiornato quotidianamente con le principali notizie del mese su astronomia, cosmologia, biologia, astrobiologia e paleontologia

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20 min readOct 3, 2018

Could Oumuamua Be an Extra-Terrestrial Solar Sail? - Universe Today

A new study by researchers from the CfA offers a compelling explanation for 'Oumuamua strange appearance and behavior …

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Hubble reveals cosmic Bat Shadow in the Serpent's Tail

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured part of the wondrous Serpens Nebula, lit up by the star HBC 672. This…

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Paso doble tecnologico per lampi radio veloci

Puntando sulla stessa porzione di cielo i due grandi radiotelescopi situati nell'outback australiano, il Murchison…

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Artificial intelligence bot trained to recognise galaxies - ICRAR

Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence program used to recognise faces on Facebook to identify galaxies in…

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Galactic ghosts: Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky Way

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Sterrenkundigen vinden de reus die de jonge Melkweg zijn vorm gaf

Professor dr. Amina Helmi ontrafelt de geheimen van ons sterrenstelsel Ongeveer tien miljard jaar geleden vond een…

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Timelapse Shows Twenty-Five Years in the Life of Supernova 1987A

Yvette Cendes, a graduate student with the U of Toronto and Leiden Observatory, has created a time-lapse showing…

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Pochi metalli, tanti pianeti

Dallo studio di 700 stelle con sistemi planetari, un team di ricercatori della Yale University ha scoperto che i…

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Bose-Einstein condensate generated in space for the first time

31 October 2018 A team of scientists from Germany has succeeded in creating a Bose-Einstein condensate for the first…

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Five Things to Know About InSight's Mars Landing

NASA engineers will be holding their breath when their spacecraft heads into Mars' atmosphere on Nov. 26.

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Naturally occurring "batteries" fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

Mars' organic carbon may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic…

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First Results from Lucky Spectroscopy, an Equivalent Technique to Lucky Imaging

First Results from Lucky Spectroscopy, an Equivalent Technique to Lucky Imagingwww.ing.iac.es

Mission to Jupiter's Trojans Given the Green Light for Development

NASA's mission to the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with Jupiter, received approval…

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OSIRIS-REx Captures 'Super-Resolution' View of Bennu

"Super-resolution" view of asteroid Bennu was created using images from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2018…

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Il respiro profondo dei Neanderthal - Le Scienze

La gabbia toracica dei Neanderthal aveva dimensioni simili a quelle dell'uomo moderno, ma una forma leggermente…

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Hotspot discovery proves Canadian astrophysicist's black hole theory | Waterloo News

The recent detection of flares circling black holes has proven a decade-old theory co-developed by a Canadian physicist…

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Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way's Black Hole | Quanta Magazine

Hot spots have been discovered orbiting just outside the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center. Their motions…

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Lampi di luce all'orizzonte degli eventi di Sgr A*

Lo strumento Gravity dell'Eso conferma che l'oggetto al centro della Via Lattea è un buco nero.

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Most Detailed Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole - ESO's GRAVITY instrument…

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Bye bye Kepler, nove anni di scoperte

Dopo aver trascorso una vita nello spazio a raccogliere dati e a scoprire più di 2600 esopianeti, il satellite della…

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NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch

After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets …

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Researchers from the University of Bristol have found significant ongoing emissions of a potent ozone-depleting…

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Astrophysicists Complete Polarimetric Investigation of Near-Earth Asteroid 3200 Phaethon

Astrophysicists have completed a polarimetric investigation of a near-Earth asteroid Phaethon as it was its closest…

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Scientists refine the search for dark matter

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, have developed a more effective technique in the search for…

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Synchronised telescope dance puts limits on mysterious flashes in the sky - ICRAR

Two outback radio telescopes synchronised to observe the same point of sky have discovered more about one of the…

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Astronomers witness slow death of nearby galaxy

Astronomers from ANU and CSIRO have witnessed, in the finest detail ever, the slow death of a neighbouring dwarf…

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Hubble-Lemaître, gli astronomi hanno detto sì

La consultazione elettronica è terminata venerdì scorso. Hanno votato in 4060 da tutto il mondo.

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Galassia sterile, è colpa del vento molecolare

Uno studio pubblicato su ApJL, guidato da Anna Lia Longinotti e condotto con il Gran Telescopio Milimétrico messicano…

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Ryugu ad altissima risoluzione

La seconda prova di touchdown della sonda giapponese Hayabusa2, condotta tra il 14 e il 16 ottobre scorso, è stata un…

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Gravitational waves could shed light on dark matter

Black holes colliding, gravitational waves riding through space-time - and a huge instrument that allows scientists to…

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Desert test drive for Mars rover controlled from 1,000 miles away

The ExoFiT Mars rover testing team will use a new model called 'Charlie' to test hardware, software and to practise…

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The Coincidence Between Two Overachieving NASA Missions

Two vastly different NASA spacecraft are about to run out of fuel.

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Third ASPIRE Test Confirms Mars 2020 Parachute a Go

On Oct. 3, NASA's Mars 2020 mission management and members of its Entry, Descent, and Landing team met at JPL in…

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'Upside down' cosmic rays may be new particle

Strange detections in Antarctica hint at something missing in the standard model of particle physics. Alan Duffy…

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New species of 'missing link' between dinosaurs and birds identified

Known as the 'Icon of Evolution' and 'the missing link' between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of…

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U-M astronomers confirm collision between two Milky Way satellite galaxies

ANN ARBOR-If you're standing in the Southern Hemisphere on a clear night, you can see two luminous clouds offset from…

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Italy and Australia to join forces on world's largest telescope - News and Events | Curtin…

Representatives of leading Italian and Australian science institutions met in Perth yesterday to formally enter into a…

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Parker Solar Probe Looks Back at Home

On Sept. 25, 2018, Parker Solar Probe captured a view of Earth as it sped toward the first Venus gravity assist of the…

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Study provides new insight into why galaxies stop forming stars A team of UC Riverside-led…

Galaxy clusters are rare regions of the universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as…

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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

To show this they observed 4 systems with confirmed black holes using a set of special filters on ACAM, an instrument…

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Some planetary systems just aren't into heavy metal

Small planetary systems with multiple planets are not fans of heavy metal - think iron, not Iron Maiden - according to…

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Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a Galaxy of Planets

The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot Jupiters, gas giants, small…

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Astronomers spot signs of supermassive black hole mergers

New research, published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, has found evidence for…

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How to Weigh a Black Hole Using NASA's Webb Space Telescope

Astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to measure a black hole's mass.

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HubbleSite: News - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Science Operations

Hubble is now back in its normal science operations mode with three fully functional gyros. Originally required to last…

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Earth's dust cloud satellites confirmed | The Royal Astronomical Society

A team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists may have confirmed two elusive clouds of dust, in semi-stable points…

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World's Oldest Fossils Aren't Actually Fossils, New Research Suggests

Two years ago, researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia shook the science world by claiming to have…

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Galassia nana scoperta da un astrofilo

Per convalidare la presenza di una nuova inquilina - seppur periferica - del Gruppo Locale di galassie sono stati…

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We Could Solve the Mysteries of Time and Space-If We Had a Particle Accelerator the Size of the…

Gravity is incredibly weak. Just think: You can lift your foot despite the mass of the entire Earth pulling against it…

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Dwarf Galaxy Found by Amateur - Sky & Telescope

Donatiello I is a tiny galaxy about 10 million light-years away, and it was discovered by an Italian hobbyist with a…

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Mars scientists push NASA to send rock-harvesting rover to two sites

NASA's next Mars rover - the first to gather rock samples meant to come back to Earth - should dream big and visit as…

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Gravitational waves could soon provide measure of universe's expansion

But getting an exact measure of the distance is much harder. Traditionally, astrophysicists have used a technique…

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Superflares From Young Red Dwarf Stars Imperil Planets

Stellar flares from red dwarfs are particularly bright in ultraviolet wavelengths, compared with Sun-like stars

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Saturn's moon Dione Covered by Mysterious Stripes

Distribution of linear virgae on Dione and Rhea. Shown are the distribution of linear virgae (green) crater rays (pink)…

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Image Release: ALMA Maps Europa's Temperature - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Jupiter's icy moon Europa has a chaotic surface terrain that is fractured and cracked, suggesting a long-standing…

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The formation of large meteorite craters is unraveled

About 66 million years ago, a meteorite hit the Earth of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Mexico. This event…

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Hayabusa2 prepares to collect a sample from Ryugu | Space Facts - Astronomy, the Solar System &…

by Lee Cavendish, 26 October 2018 Hayabusa2 has sent rovers and landers to the surface of Ryugu, and now it's time to…

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Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud

Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud Since 13 September, ESA's Mars Express has been observing the evolution of…

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Nagoya University Research Achievements

Researchers at Nagoya University find a mechanical connection between sand crab burrow widths and widths of cometary pi

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Quel bradipo di una pulsar

PSR J0250+5854 ha 14 milioni di anni e si trova nella costellazione di Cassiopea, a 5200 anni luce dalla Terra…

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The Pirate of the Southern Skies

FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope, has observed the active star-forming region NGC 2467 …

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The ghost of Cassiopeia

About 550 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia lies IC 63, a stunning and slightly eerie nebula. Also…

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Rare Blue Asteroid Reveals Itself During Fly-By

Blue asteroids are rare, and blue comets are almost unheard of. An international team led by Teddy Kareta, a doctoral…

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NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains

The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission has resolved smaller distances between crests of atmospheric waves at…

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NASA's InSight Will Study Mars While Standing Still

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Crater from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs reveals how broken rocks can flow like liquid…

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city smashed into Earth. This impact, the one that would…

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SwRI team makes breakthroughs studying Pluto orbiter mission

A Southwest Research Institute team using internal research funds has made several discoveries that expand the range…

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Why NASA Watches the Colors of the (Upper Atmospheric) Wind

If you peer down on Earth from just 300 miles above the surface, you can see vibrant swaths of red and green or purple…

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Europa may have towering ice spikes on its surface | EarthSky.org

All these worlds are yours - except Europa. Attempt no landings there. So goes the familiar line from the 1982 science…

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Europa Plume Sites Lack Expected Heat Signatures

This is an artist's concept of a plume of water vapor thought to be ejected off the frigid, icy surface of the Jovian…

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Weighing planets and asteroids

A team of scientists from the `International Pulsar Timing Array' consortium, led by researchers from the Max Planck…

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Oct. 22 Gyro Update: Hubble Moving Closer to Normal Science Operations

NASA took great strides last week to press into service a Hubble Space Telescope backup gyroscope (gyro) that was…

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NASA's First Image of Mars from a CubeSat

NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey…

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Minerals of the world, unite!

Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place…

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Award-winning algorithm takes search for habitable planets to the next level

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Zooming in on Mexico's landscape

As part of a scientific collaboration with the Mexican Space Agency and other Mexican scientific public entities, ESA…

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ESA Science & Technology: BepiColombo magnetometer boom deployed

The 2.5 m long boom carrying the magnetometer sensors onboard ESA's BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) has…

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Simbio-Sys, tre occhi su Mercurio

Le tre parti dello strumento a bordo di BepiColombo sono una camera ad alta risoluzione per lo studio dettagliato della…

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Alla scoperta dell'esosfera di Mercurio

Serena è la suite di strumenti dedicata allo studio delle particelle presenti nell'ambiente attorno a Mercurio, pronta…

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Einstein arriva su Mercurio con Isa

Uno strumento tutto italiano consentirà di rilevare le sollecitazioni e accelerazioni che agiscono sul satellite Esa…

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Verso Mercurio cercando crepe nella Relatività

Si chiama More, acronimo per Mercury Orbiter Radioscience Experiment, e riflettendo come uno specchio complessi segnali…

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All systems go for second-ever mission to enter Mercury's orbit

A European rocket is ready to launch the most ambitious mission ever taken towards Mercury, Earth's once-neglected…

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BepiColombo's first space selfies

This trio of images was captured by the BepiColombo spacecraft after it blasted off into space at 01:45 GMT on 20…

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BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury's mysteries

BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury's mysteries The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an…

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BepiColombo: Two Orbiters Head to Mercury

Apart from Earth, Mercury is the only terrestrial planet with its own magnetic field, and yet it has only been visited…

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New study sets a size limit for undiscovered subatomic particles

A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do not have the properties needed to…

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Fusione tra stelle di neutroni, ci risiamo

Osservato un segnale elettromagnetico analogo a quello prodotto in occasione di Gw 170817. I due eventi sono stati…

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Astronomers reveal a likely second neutron star merger

A gamma ray burst from 2015 was caused by the same type of event that produced the gravitational waves measured last…

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Lst, 400 metri quadrati alle Canarie

È UN SUPER TELESCOPIO PER I RAGGI GAMMA Dopo "Astri", il primo prototipo Inaf dei telescopi "Sst" che costituiranno…

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Ecco di che stoffa è fatto un pianeta

L'Università di Zurigo ha calcolato che per avere caratteristiche simili alla Terra gli esopianeti non devono avere un…

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Meet the trillions of viruses that make up your virome

If you think you don't have viruses, think again. It may be hard to fathom, but the human body is occupied by large…

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ASU astronomers catch red dwarf star in a superflare outburst

New observations by two Arizona State University astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have caught a red dwarf…

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School students identify sounds caused by solar storm

17 October 2018 The findings, by a group of year 12 pupils from Eltham Hill School in south east London, have now been…

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Chandra and ALMA Measure Speed of Sloshing Gas in Galaxy Cluster

©Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger…

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New infrared telescope first to monitor entire northern sky

A new infrared telescope designed and built by astronomers at ANU and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)…

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Kes 75: Milky Way's Youngest Pulsar Exposes Secrets of Star's Demise

Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's…

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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Titan in the Early Universe

Maunakea, Hawaii - Astronomers at University of Califronia, Davis, are using W. M. Keck Observatory to map out an…

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CSIRO telescope almost doubles known number of mysterious 'fast radio bursts'

Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of 'fast…

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Some Stars Around Galaxy May Be From Elsewhere - Sky & Telescope

Data from the Gaia satellite reveal 20 new high-speed stars, 13 of which appear to have originated outside of the Milky…

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Double dust ring test could spot migrating planets

If ALMA finds that the interior dust ring (i.e. between the planet's orbit and the star) is typically made up of…

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SwRI's Strofio will measure Mercury's "exosphere"

The European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft will launch towards Mercury carrying a unique payload designed and…

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Ultra-close stars discovered inside a planetary nebula | The Royal Astronomical Society

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each…

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The 'Claw Game' on Mars: NASA InSight Plays to Win

If you've ever played the claw machine at an arcade, you know how hard it can be to maneuver the metal "hand" to pick…

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NASA's Fermi Mission Energizes the Sky With Gamma-ray Constellations

Scientists on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission have devised a set of modern constellations constructed…

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Astronomy Rewind Fast-Forwards to Reanimate "Zombie" Astrophotos

Contact details appear below. ** More than 30,000 celestial images that were all but lost to science are about to find…

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'Pulsar in a Box' Reveals Surprises in Neutron Star's Surroundings

Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated 'pulsar in a box' are uncovering particle behaviors that may…

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The Asteroids are Coming

Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 - This isn't just buzz to get you excited about a new movie coming; we really are being…

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Icy moon of Jupiter, Ganymede, shows evidence of past strike-slip faulting

A recently published study led by researchers at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology reveals Ganymede…

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All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational Wave Source Discovered

On October 16, 2017, an international group of astronomers and physicists excitedly reported the first simultaneous…

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Moon helps reveal secrets of the Universe - ICRAR

The Moon may be the key to unlocking how the first stars and galaxies shaped the early Universe. A team of astronomers…

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NASA wants to send humans to Venus - here's why that's a brilliant idea

Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm…

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Scientists to Debate Landing Site for Next Mars Rover - NASA's Mars Exploration Program

Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles…

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Researchers solve mystery at the centre of the Milky Way

Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the…

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Dying Star Emits a Whisper - GROWTH News

The Zwicky Transient Facility, the successor of iPTF at Palomar Observatory, is examining the sky even more broadly and…

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have found the oldest clue yet of animal life, dating back at…

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A break from the buzz: Bees go silent during total solar eclipse: Citizen science project engages…

In an unprecedented study of a solar eclipse's influence on bee behavior, researchers organized citizen scientists and…

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NASA's Mars Exploration Program

NASA's real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.

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Where is it, the foundation of quantum reality?

With the aid of simple theoretical models it is possible to build systems operating strictly according to the rules of…

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Numerous boulders, many rocks, no dust: MASCOT's zigzag course across the asteroid Ryugu

The scientists were able to follow the path that MASCOT travelled on the surface of Ryugu on the basis of images and…

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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

In this study has been used high-resolution spectroscopy obtained with the UVES spectrograph in the VLT telescope…

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Boy meets world: Life-long space buff and Western graduate student discovers exoplanet - Media…

Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. With no immediate plans for such a voyage, the…

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Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form

Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time…

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Icy warning for space missions to Jupiter's moon

A location often earmarked as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life could prove to be a tricky place for…

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How the Seeds of Planets Take Shape | Caltech

In theoretical research that could explain everything from planet formation to outflows from stars, to even the…

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When debris overwhelms space

The bottom line is that this cannot be allowed to happen. Somebody has to pay to cleanup space, and that somebody is…

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Researchers discover new type of stellar collision

For three and a half centuries, astronomers have pondered a mystery: What did the French monk and astronomer Père Dom…

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The cosmological lithium problem: One of the unknowns in the current description of the Big Bang

An international research group has tried to find a solution to one of the unknowns in the current description of the…

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UZH - Der Zusammensetzung von Planeten auf der Spur

The findings of the study provide new insights into the development and diversity of these planets. One particularly…

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Saturn's rings made of surprising chemical mix

LAWRENCE - Political humorist Mark Russel once joked, "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn…

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This Newly Discovered 26,000-Pound Dinosaur Was Once The Biggest Creature To Walk Planet Earth

Some 200 million years ago, a 12-ton dinosaur that was double the size of two African elephants stomped around South…

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String Theory: Is Dark Energy even Allowed?

In string theory, a paradigm shift could be imminent. In June, a team of string theorists from Harvard and Caltech…

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UZH - Plant Hormone Makes Space Farming a Possibility

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Latest insights into Saturn's weird magnetic field only make things weirder | Imperial News |…

Some of the last data from the Cassini mission reveals more structure in Saturn's magnetic field, but still no answer…

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International Astronomical Union | IAU

The IAU is the international astronomical organisation that brings together more than 13 500 professional astronomers…

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Painting Cars for Mars

JPL's paint shop does 1,000 jobs a year. While every piece of spacecraft that comes through the shop is important, one…

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Three hops in three asteroid days - MASCOT successfully completes the exploration of the surface of…

It was a day full of exciting moments and a happy team of scientists and engineers: late in the afternoon of 3 October…

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Alla ricerca di esopianeti con l'Earth Factor

All'International Astronautical Congress, in corso in a Brema (Germania), è stato ufficialmente annunciato l'avvio…

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Construction of Europe's exoplanet hunter Plato begins

Construction of Europe's exoplanet hunter Plato begins The construction of ESA's Plato mission to find and study…

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Hunt for Planet X reveals the Goblin, a faraway dwarf planet

Oct. 4 (UPI) -- While searching for signs of Planet X, scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet candidate beyond…

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Vesta, tell us about the childhood of the Solar System

Investigating the earliest and least known phases of the history of the Solar System, when the young Sun was still…

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The threat of Centaurs for the Earth

Astrophysicists calculate the impact probability and crater size of impacts due to minor bodies The astrophysicists…

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New Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail

The transmission electron microscope was designed to break records. Using its beam of electrons, scientists have…

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Fotografia del buco nero? Non prima del 2019

È stata soprannominata la "foto del secolo". Dopo oltre un anno di analisi dati, di verifiche e controlli di qualità, i…

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Space junk hunter-killer satellites are on the way

Australian researchers take aim at hundreds of thousands of bits of debris orbiting the Earth. Alan Duffy reports.

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By Jove! Methane's Effects on Sunlight Vary by Region

Scientists investigating how human-induced increases in atmospheric methane also increase the amount of solar energy…

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Study: Plate Tectonics May Have Been Active on Earth Since the Very Beginning

A new study suggests that plate tectonics-a scientific theory that divides the earth into large chunks of crust that…

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International research team confirms collision of white dwarf and brown dwarf stars

Image credit: European Southern Observatory Picture of the Week - ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. P. S. Eyres Researchers from…

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In its final days, Cassini bathed in 'ring rain'

On its last orbits in 2017, the long-running Cassini spacecraft dove between Saturn's rings and its upper atmosphere…

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Polar Wandering on Dwarf Planet Ceres Revealed

CeresImage credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Tucson, Ariz. -- Dwarf planet Ceres experienced an indirect polar…

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Novel technique quickly maps young ice deposits and formations on Mars

A new investigative technique has shown the latitudinal distribution of ice-rich landforms on Mars. This large-scale…

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New Clues May Cut Through Mystery of Titan's Hazy Atmosphere

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique among all moons in our solar system for its dense and nitrogen-rich atmosphere…

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Journey to the Beginning of Time - English

Potsdam, 8th October 2018. With the Pristine survey, an international team is looking for and researching the oldest…

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Hubble in Safe Mode as Gyro Issues are Diagnosed

NASA is working to resume science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft entered safe mode on…

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A wrench in Earth's engine

Researchers at CU Boulder report that they may have solved a geophysical mystery, pinning down the likely cause of a…

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VLA Sky Survey Reveals First "Orphan" Gamma Ray Burst - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Astronomers comparing data from an ongoing major survey of the sky using the National Science Foundation's Karl G…

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Astronomers Discover Sonic Boom From Powerful Unseen Explosion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [TORONTO] A team of astronomers has detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic…

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NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space - Solar System Exploration: NASA Science

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that…

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First SpaceX mission with Nasa astronauts set for June 2019

Nasa has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to…

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Parker Solar Probe Changed the Game Before it Even Launched

On Oct. 3, Parker Solar Probe performed a Venus gravity assist that drew its orbit closer to the star by 4 million…

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The state of the Early Universe: The beginning was fluid

04 October 2018 Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and their colleagues from the…

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New extremely distant Solar System object found during hunt for Planet X

Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and his colleagues-Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo, and the University of…

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Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn

Cassini's Grand Finale orbits pay off: Final dives tell the story of the previously unexplored region between Saturn…

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New radiation belt discovered at Saturn

Approximately one year ago a spectacular dive into Saturn ended NASA's Cassini mission - and with it a unique, 13-year…

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Observations challenge cosmological theories - Universität Bonn

Recent observations create a puzzle for astrophysicists: since the big bang, less galaxy clusters have formed over time…

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Scientists develop a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic field

Researchers in Canada, the United States and Europe have developed a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic…

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MASCOT lands safely on asteroid Ryugu

The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, located approximately 300 million kilometres from Earth, has a new inhabitant: On 3…

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Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch 'Brains'

NASA engineers are switching over to Curiosity's spare computer to diagnose a technical issue.

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SwRI scientists study Saturn's rings to discover downpour

Using some of the Cassini spacecraft's final measurements, Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered that…

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Newly detected microquasar gamma-rays 'call for new ideas'

LOS ALAMOS, NM, Oct. 4, 2018-The first-ever detection of highly energetic radiation from a microquasar has…

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Scientists Discover New Nursery for Superpowered Photons

A strange star system in our own galaxy is producing some of the most powerful gamma rays ever seen. Messengers from…

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Mountaintop Observatory Sees Gamma Rays from Exotic Milky Way Object

The night sky seems serene, but telescopes tell us that the universe is filled with collisions and explosions. Distant…

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ICESat-2 Laser Fires for 1st Time, Measures Antarctic Height

With each of its 10,000 pulses per second, the laser instrument aboard NASA's ICESat-2 is sending 300 trillion green…

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Lockheed Martin Reveals New Human Lunar Lander Concept | Lockheed Martin Corp

Reusable lander could take astronauts from the lunar Gateway to the surface of the Moon and advance technology needed…

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ITMO University Scientists Develop Laser for High-Precision Satellite Navigation

Scientists from ITMO University's Research Institute of Laser Physics have developed a high-power laser with short…

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'Spacesuits' protect microbes destined to live in space

Just as spacesuits help astronauts survive in inhospitable environments, newly developed "spacesuits" for bacteria…

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Hubble finds compelling evidence for a moon outside the Solar System - Neptune-sized moon orbits…

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and older data from the Kepler Space Telescope two astronomers have found the…

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FEFU astrophysicists study the 'profile' of coma in Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner

The favorable weather conditions had settled in September in Primorsky Krai, Russia, made it possible to receive the…

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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies

Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies A team of astronomers using the latest set of data from ESA's Gaia mission to…

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New tool helps scientists better target the search for alien life

An EPFL scientist has developed a novel approach that boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial intelligence in…

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New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes

A new model brings scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two supermassive…

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Breakthrough Initiatives

Expanding its global network to the African continent, Breakthrough Listen will employ the MeerKAT Telescope in a…

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Black holes ruled out as universe's missing dark matter

For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers…

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Touchdown! Japan space probe lands new robot on asteroid

JAXA/AFP / Handout A Japanese probe landed a new observation robot on an asteroid on Wednesday as it pursues a mission…

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Splendido splendente, ecco il cosmo primordiale

Osservazioni profonde fatte con lo spettrografo Muse, installato sul Very Large Telescope dell'Eso, hanno permesso di…

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A Universe Aglow - MUSE spectrograph reveals that nearly the entire sky in the early Universe is…

Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs…

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Warped and distorted

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Extraordinary crystals hold secrets of Earth's infancy

Mountains in South Africa's Barberton region contain a rare hoard of minerals more than 3 billion years old.

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VLA Discovers Powerful Jet Coming from "Wrong" Kind of Star - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered a fast-moving…

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