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AstroNews 6/2018

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

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29/6/2018

New Mystery Discovered Regarding Active Asteroid Phaethon

Based on a new study of how near-Earth asteroid Phaethon reflects light at different angles, astronomers think that its…

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Miliardi di panetti di burro nella Via Lattea

La produzione in laboratorio di analoghi dei composti alifatici presenti nel mezzo interstellare ha consentito a un…

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Là dove esistono le mezze stagioni aliene

Uno studio sulla dinamica degli assi di rotazione, pubblicato su The Astronomical Journal, suggerisce che pianeti…

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28/6/2018

New insights bolster Einstein's idea about how heat moves through solids

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 28, 2018-A discovery by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory…

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More Clues That Earth-Like Exoplanets Are Indeed Earth-Like

A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet 500 light-years…

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Large molecules show Enceladus "clearly is habitable for life"

New findings support, but do not prove, the idea that life may exist on Saturn's icy moon. Richard A Lovett reports.

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Interstellar asteroid update: It's a comet! | EarthSky.org

Since last October, there's been big excitement about the first interstellar object discovered passing through our…

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New launch date for James Webb Space Telescope

Artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope New launch date for James Webb Space Telescope After completion…

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Are we alone? The question is worthy of serious scientific study

About 5 percent of all UFO sightings cannot be easily explained by weather or human technology. A physicist argues that…

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27/6/2018

The meteorite 'Black Beauty' expands the window for when life might have existed on Mars

The early surface of Mars consisting of a liquid magma ocean crystallized extremely rapidly, just 20 million year after…

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Complex Organics Bubble up from Ocean-world Enceladus - Cassini Legacy: 1997-2017

Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal complex organic molecules originating from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus…

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NASA Completes Webb Telescope Review, Commits to Launch in Early 2021

The Independent Review Board (IRB) established by NASA to assess progress on its James Webb Space Telescope has…

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Space Detectives! Sandbox Craters Reveal Secrets of Planetary Splash Marks and Lost Meteorites

Look up above you. You might see blue sky, clouds, the Moon or stars. And while it might seem calm up there, the truth…

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Is the Interstellar Asteroid Really a Comet?

"It was extremely surprising that ʻOumuamua first appeared as an asteroid, given that we expect interstellar comets…

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How many astronauts do you need to reach Proxima Centauri b?

One day, at least if science fiction novelists and dreamers are to be believed, humankind will set sail for planets…

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Hubble sees `Oumuamua getting a boost - New results indicate interstellar nomad is a comet

Oumuamua, the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, is moving away from the Sun faster than…

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Daring Japanese mission reaches unexplored asteroid Ryugu

After travelling for three-and-a-half years, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 this week makes its final approach to…

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La ricetta degli ammassi stellari

Trovato un modello convincente per la formazione degli ammassi stellari, che si applica a tutte le scale di massa, dai…

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Marte: così non lo avete mai visto

GRAZIE ALLO STRUMENTO CASSIS In attesa dell'arrivo del rover di ExoMars 2020, la camera CaSSIS ci offre delle immagini…

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Nuovi limiti dimensionali per le stelle di neutroni

Il rilevamento dell'onda gravitazionale Gw 170817 aiuta a rispondere ad un vecchio quesito riguardante i corpi più…

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A forma di sigaro, ma pur sempre una cometa

Postulando che si tratti di una cometa in miniatura, dalla peculiare forma oblunga, uno studio su Nature guidato da…

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Mysterious interstellar visitor is a comet - not an asteroid

The first-known visitor from outside the Solar System, an object dubbed 'Oumuamua, is an icy comet rather than a rocky…

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Complex organics bubble from the depths of ocean-world Enceladus

Enceladus jets and shadows Complex organics bubble from the depths of ocean-world Enceladus Data from the international…

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SwRI scientists find evidence of complex organic molecules from Enceladus

Using mass spectrometry data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists found that large, carbon-rich organic molecules…

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26/6/2018

What caused the mass extinction of Earth's first animals?

Fossil records tell us that the first macroscopic animals appeared on Earth about 575 million years ago. Twenty-four…

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Frankfurt physicists set limits on size of neutron stars

How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometres. Astrophysicists at the Goethe…

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Nasa: come riconoscere la vita?

Questa domanda, apparentemente banale, è alla base della formazione del Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS)…

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Metti alla prova le stelle della galassia nana

Con i dati della missione Gaia, "prima o poi dovrebbe essere possibile determinare se le stelle delle galassie nane…

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25/6/2018

Why life on Earth first got big

The research, led by the University of Cambridge, found that the most successful organisms living in the oceans more…

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Planet formation starts before star reaches maturity

A European team of astronomers has discovered that dust particles around a star already coagulate before the star is…

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RemoveDEBRIS | University of Surrey

Besides the Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) the consortium includes: Airbus Defence and Space (Germany, UK…

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Earth's first mission to a binary asteroid, for planetary defence

Earth's first mission to a binary asteroid, for planetary defence Planning for humankind's first mission to a binary…

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A galactic test will clarify the existence of dark matter - Universität Bonn

Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of California at Irvine used sophisticated computer…

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Will we know life when we see it? NASA-led group takes stock of the science

In the last decade we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and have learned that rocky…

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La pioggia fredda che ingrassa il buco nero

Alcune rare e antiche galassie, piccole ma molto massicce, sono rimaste isolate per miliardi di anni. Questo provoca…

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K2 scopre 78 esopianeti in tempi record

Nei dati di due campagne osservative del satellite Kepler i ricercatori hanno trovato velocemente 30 candidati pianeta…

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Best Test of General Relativity on Galaxy Scales - Sky & Telescope

Astronomers have conducted the best, galaxy-scale test of general relativity yet, and it rules out some (but not all)…

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24/6/2018

Rosetta spacecraft image archive complete | EarthSky.org

The European Space Agency (ESA) said on June 21, 2018, that the Rosetta spacecraft's image archive is complete. Rosetta…

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22/6/2018

Einstein proved right in another galaxy

An international team of astronomers have made the most precise test of gravity outside our own solar system. By…

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Il blazar che gira come una trottola

Un gruppo internazionale di astronomi guidato dai ricercatori del Max Planck Institute ha scoperto che il nucleo…

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Weather got you down? The entire planet of Mars is buried in a dust storm right now.

Mars is having a bit of a dustup. The entire surface is currently smothered in a "planet-encircling" dust storm that…

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When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong

A recent mission atop a Hawaiian volcano shows humans still have much to learn before they set foot on another world…

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Martian Supervolcano Created Mysterious Rock Formation - Sky & Telescope

With an area of one-fifth of the continental United States, the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) is one of the largest…

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21/6/2018

The Rosetta stone of active galactic nuclei deciphered

A galaxy with at least one active supermassive black hole - named OJ 287 - has caused many irritations and questions in…

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Old star clusters could have been the birthplace of supermassive stars, claims new Surrey study

In a study published by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the team led by the University of Surrey…

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: Mrk 1216 :: June 21, 2018

'Red Nuggets' are Galactic Gold for Astronomers

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Astro-software rende supercomputer un laptop

Due astronomi dell'Università di Groningen, nei Paesi Bassi, hanno sviluppato un software per visualizzare facilmente…

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Come ti pesco il detrito al volo

RemoveDEBRIS, una piccola sonda progettata per dimostrare la validità di tecnologie innovative per ripulire i…

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Un test per la gravità di Einstein

Dati raccolti con il telescopio spaziale Hubble e il Very Large Telescope confermano - ancora una volta - quanto…

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VLT Makes Most Precise Test of Einstein's General Relativity Outside Milky Way

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…

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Hubble proves Einstein correct on galactic scales - Most precise test of general relativity outside…

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's…

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Cresce su tutto il pianeta la foschia marziana

La tempesta di polvere su Marte che ha obbligato Opportunity a interrompere le sue attività si è estesa su scala…

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Pulsar Limits "Fifth Force" Interactions with Dark Matter - Sky & Telescope

A recent experiment to better understand the nature of dark matter constrains a possible "fifth force" of nature to…

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Massive atmospheric wave on Venus could explain the planet's weird rotation

Venus' rotation has always been weird. While it completes an orbit around the sun in the equivalent of 225 days on…

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20/6/2018

Clearing out space junk, one step at a time

Since the start of the space age, mankind has left its mark on the orbital pathways overhead...and not always for the…

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Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, and…

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Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter

Scientists have found what may be the universe's lost sock at the back of the dryer-answering a long-running mystery…

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Stop looking for ET: modelling suggests we're alone in the universe

Despite the small matter of lack of evidence, most astrophysicists and cosmologists today are persuaded that…

cosmosmagazine.com

Missing matter found in the cosmic web

We live in a dark Universe: just 5% of it consists of ordinary matter such as that found in atoms, whereas the rest is…

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10 things about Martian dust storms | EarthSky.org

By Phil Davis/NASA Science 1: Challenging Opportunity NASA's Opportunity rover is facing one of the greatest challenges…

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19/6/2018

Citizen Scientists Developing Expertise on Galaxy Images

News: Jun 19, 2018 Two researchers from the University of Gothenburg have studied large amounts of data in a citizen…

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Sounding Rocket Takes Second Look at Sun

In the harsh space environment, scientific instruments can degrade quickly. With the help of the EVE sounding rocket…

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Quei raggi X dall'associazione del Cigno

Confermata, grazie a osservazioni con il telescopio spaziale Nasa Chandra, l'emissione diffusa alle alte energie nella…

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Buchi neri intermedi, rari ma ci sono

Da anni gli astrofisici si chiedono se esistano o meno buchi neri con massa intermedia tra i buchi neri supermassicci e…

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Materia oscura, la gravità modificata non basta

Ipotesi alternative alla materia oscura, in particolare le teorie Mond, non sono compatibili con le osservazioni della…

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Ritratti molecolari: così ti fotografo gli esopianeti

Un team di astronomi dell'università di Ginevra e del National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS di Berna ha…

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Hunting molecules to find new planets

The planet becomes visible when looking for H2O or CO molecules. However, as there is no CH4 nor NH3 in its atmosphere…

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Is Theoretical Physics Wasting Our Best Living Minds On Nonsense?

There’s no such thing as a theory that’s too beautiful to be wrong, if it doesn’t agree with experiment.

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Space Station Roulette

Space station astronauts have to be "high-risk-taking" individuals. They volunteer to fly from the Earth to the…

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New human gene tally reignites debate

One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in…

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18/6/2018

UNH Researcher Captures Best Ever Evidence of Rare Black Hole

DURHAM, N.H. - Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive…

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: J2150 :: June 18, 2018

One of the few methods scientists can use to try to find an IMBH is to wait for a star to pass close to it and become…

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Two New Creatures Discovered from Dawn of Animal Life

Names of recently discovered Ediacaran era fossil animals honor President Barack Obama and Sir David Attenborough Two…

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Explosive volcanoes spawned mysterious Martian rock formation - AGU Newsroom

WASHINGTON - Explosive volcanic eruptions that shot jets of hot ash, rock and gas skyward are the likely source of a…

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Star shredded by rare breed of black hole

Star shredded by rare breed of black hole ESA's XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a…

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Chinese satellite could link world to Moon's dark side: space expert - Xinhua | English.news.cn

The relay satellite for Chang'e-4 will establish a communication link between the Earth and the far side of the Moon…

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15/6/2018

Plus besoin de matière sombre pour expliquer la dynamique (...) -

Depuis les années 1970, les astronomes ont admis que la matière sombre - ou invisible - est la principale composante de…

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Dark and Stormy Jupiter

This image captures the intensity of the jets and vortices in Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt.

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Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star

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Hayabusa2 and MASCOT lander nearing Ryugu

Hayabusa2, JAXA's asteroid explorer, and the MASCOT lander, developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the…

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Study may help humans colonise Mars and hunt for alien life

Scientists at ANU have contributed to an international study that will potentially help humans to colonise Mars and…

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Asteroid battle: Tech entrepreneur doubles down on critique of NASA mission

A years-long spat between asteroid hunters at NASA and multimillionaire entrepreneur Nathan Myhrvold has finally made…

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Lune lontane possono ospitare la vita

I ricercatori hanno identificato 121 esopianeti giganti che potrebbero avere satelliti naturali abitabili: esolune…

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Non serve materia oscura per le galassie nane

Un nuovo studio franco-cinese mette in dubbio la necessità di contemplare l'effetto di una materia oscura per spiegare…

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14/6/2018

ESA Science & Technology: Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop

A new database of plasma simulations, combined with observational data and powerful visualisation tools, is providing…

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Micro satellite developed by Chinese university starts to work around Moon - Xinhua |…

BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -- A micro satellite, developed by the Harbin Institute of Technology in northeast China's…

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Black Hole Destroys Star and Shoots Jet - Sky & Telescope

When stars zip too close to a supermassive black hole, they enter dangerous territory. How close "too close" is depends…

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Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material…

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The Aftermath of GW170817: Neutron Star or Black Hole? - Sky & Telescope

When two neutron stars merged in August of last year, leading to the first simultaneous detection of gravitational…

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Hayabusa2 si avvicina all'asteroide Ryugu

La risoluzione è ancora molto bassa e la forma dell'oggetto è ancora indistinta, ma ricorda il dango, un tradizionale…

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Materiale organico più abbondante su Cerere

Una nuova analisi dei dati ottenuti dallo strumento italiano Vir a bordo della sonda Nasa Dawn suggerisce che la…

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Supernova? No, stellicidio

Il raro fenomeno che porta alla disgregazione delle stelle è noto come evento di distruzione mareale e si verifica…

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A New Experiment to Understand Dark Matter

Is dark matter a source of a yet unknown force in addition to gravity? The mysterious dark matter is little understood…

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Dust clouds can explain puzzling features of active galactic nuclei

Many large galaxies have a bright central region called an active galactic nucleus (AGN), powered by matter spiraling…

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Astronomers identify 121 giant planets likely to host habitable moons

June 14 (UPI) -- Astronomers have identified 121 giant planets that potentially host habitable moons. Scientists…

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Relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probe enters planned orbit - Xinhua | English.news.cn

BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -- The relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far…

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13/6/2018

New and improved way to find baby planets

New work from an international team of astronomers including Carnegie's Jaehan Bae used archival radio telescope data…

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New research reveals British Isles buried under ice sheets from 2.5 million years ago

New study found ice sheets submerged Britain a million years earlier than previously thought Research is a significant…

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New research reveals British Isles buried under ice sheets 2.5 million years ago

Breakthrough research has revealed the British Isles were repeatedly submerged under an ice sheet extending to the…

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Research shows short gamma-ray bursts do follow binary neutron star mergers

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed that last fall's union of two neutron stars did…

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Too Many Massive Stars in Universe's Youngest Galaxies - Sky & Telescope

A new method of measuring star formation in the earliest galaxies finds that they're producing more massive stars than…

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NASA's Dawn Probe Reaches Its Low, Final Orbit - Sky & Telescope

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered a new and final orbit that will take it less than 30 miles above the surface of…

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Tre pianetini per la stella bambina

Usando una tecnica innovativa di ricerca dei pianeti, simile a quella che portò alla scoperta di Nettuno, due team…

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Fusioni nella Via Lattea: le rivelano i dati di Gaia

I dati del satellite Gaia dell'Agenzia spaziale europea - protagonista proprio oggi, a Roma, di uno speciale "Gaia…

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News

During the history of the Earth, there were many mass extinctions, when huge numbers of species died out. They are…

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Long suspected theory about the Moon holds water

A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University's Frontier Research Institute for…

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Osservato in diretta il trasferimento genico orizzontale - Le Scienze

Una nuova tecnica di colorazione fluorescente ha permesso di riprendere cellule del batterio del colera mentre…

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Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought

A new analysis of data from NASA's Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high…

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NASA Encounters the Perfect Storm for Science

One of the most intense Martian dust storms ever observed is being studied by a record number of NASA spacecraft.

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Antarctica Is Melting More Than Twice as Fast as in 2012

Between 60 and 90 percent of the world's fresh water is frozen in the ice sheets of Antarctica, a continent roughly the…

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Massive Martian dust storm endangers NASA rover

An enormous dust storm is blanketing much of Mars, blocking the sunlight that NASA's 15-year-old Opportunity rover…

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ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star - Novel technique to find youngest…

Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in…

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12/6/2018

Science Fiction Wormholes Don't Exist - Sky & Telescope

It's a standard sci-fi trope: Space travelers in a hurry pop into a wormhole and reach a distant part of the galaxy…

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Apollo Astronauts Warmed the Moon - Sky & Telescope

A new find may have solved an old mystery: what caused the anomalous heat readings from the instruments that Apollo…

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Coder-Physicists Are Simulating the Universe to Unlock Its Secrets | Quanta Magazine

In the early 2000s, a small community of coder-cosmologists set out to simulate the 14-billion-year history of the…

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New GAIA data reveals mergers in Milky Way

University of Groningen astronomers have discovered relics of merger events in the Milky Way halo. Five small groups of…

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The True Power of the Solar Wind

The planets and moons of our solar system are continuously being bombarded by particles hurled away from the sun. On…

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Chiedi alla polvere di cometa

PER COMPRENDERE L'ORIGINE DEL SISTEMA SOLARE Nuove analisi identificano la polvere interstellare risalente alla…

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In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics

On a warm summer evening, a visitor to 1920s Göttingen, Germany, might have heard the hubbub of a party from an…

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How the belief in beauty has triggered a crisis in physics

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray Sabine Hossenfelder Basic (2018) "Why should the laws of nature care…

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The strange case for life in other universes | EarthSky.org

Help EarthSky keep going! Please donate what you can to our annual crowd-funding campaign. When it comes to searching…

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11/6/2018

Fueling a Deep-Sea Ecosystem

Miles beneath the ocean surface in the dark abyss, vast communities of subseafloor microbes at deep-sea hot springs are…

www.whoi.edu

Dust to dust: the mystery of Tabby's star deepens

Astronomers using small telescopes around the world are unearthing clues to an enigma once dubbed "the most mysterious…

cosmosmagazine.com

Scoperta in Cina la più antica traccia fossile di un animale - Le Scienze

Risale al periodo Ediacarano, tra 635 e 541 milioni di anni fa, e fu probabilmente lasciata da un animale lungo pochi…

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Queqiao, un ponte di gazze verso il lato nascosto

La faccia nascosta della Luna è il sogno proibito dei radioastronomi. La missione cinese Queqiao si appresta a renderlo…

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Polvere di diamante nella culla delle stelle

Per la prima volta dopo vent'anni è stata individuata la sorgente delle microonde anomale, radiazioni emesse in alcune…

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Quattro scenari per l'apocalisse aliena

Può una civiltà tecnologicamente avanzata sopravvivere al cambiamento climatico o a simili fenomeni innescati dal suo…

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Press Release - Diamond Dust Shimmering around Distant Stars

In astronomy, nanodiamonds are special in that their structure produces what is known as a "dipole moment" - an…

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This Is Why The Event Horizon Telescope Still Doesn’t Have An Image Of A Black Hole

The data has been taken, collected, and analyzed. So where is the first image of an event horizon, already?

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10/6/2018

How Language Hijacked the Brain

A provocative theory argues that the same cerebral pathways used for toolmaking allowed language to flourish. I'm…

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8/6/2018

A New Way to Measure Energy in Microscopic Machines

What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call "free energy,"…

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First tetrapods of Africa lived within the Devonian Antarctic Circle

Fossils of two new species of these four-legged vertebrates also evolved in polar regions, and not just in the tropics…

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A Massive Neutron Star with a Two-Faced Companion - Sky & Telescope

How massive can a neutron star get? In a recent study, scientists may have identified the most massive neutron star yet…

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Tre pianeti terrestri attorno a una nana rossa

La temperatura atmosferica delle due stelle studiate dai ricercatori dell'Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias è quasi…

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Il più grande spettacolo dopo il Big Bang

La materia oscura e l'energia oscura potrebbero aver guidato l'inflazione cosmica. Questa è l'ipotesi alla base di un…

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Icy Dunes on Pluto Reveal a Diverse and Dynamic Dwarf Planet

Newly discovered dunes on Pluto tell us the dwarf planet's geology and atmosphere is far more dynamic than previously…

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7/6/2018

Expedition measures solar motions seen during last summer's total solar eclipse

"During the August 21, 2017, solar eclipse, our dozens of telescopes and electronic cameras collected data during the…

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Mineralogy on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The climate throughout Mars' early history has long been debated - was the Red Planet warm and…

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Moma, un piccolo chimico su Marte

Un intero laboratorio d'analisi chimica, miniaturizzato fino a occupare lo spazio di un forno a microonde: è il Mars…

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Sistema stellare ospitale a 4 anni luce

Alpha Centauri è un sistema stellare triplo a "solo" 40mila miliardi di chilometri dalla Terra. Due stelle del sistema…

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Ammassi di galassie come palloni da rugby

Sono gli oggetti più grandi dell'Universo: per la prima volta, un gruppo internazionale di astronomi guidato da Mauro…

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NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence on Mars with implications for NASA's search for life.

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Mars' Mysterious Methane

NASA's Curiosity rover used its Sample Analysis at Mars to detect seasonal changes in atmospheric methane in Gale…

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Plate Tectonics May Be Essential for Life | Quanta Magazine

Plate tectonics might even be responsible for another atmospheric ingredient, and arguably the most important: oxygen…

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6/6/2018

Saint Martin's physics faculty member Andrea Kunder, Ph.D., and team use Gaia to confirm…

LACEY, Wash. - Andrea Kunder, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, Stephen Parker, Ph.D., associate professor of…

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Researchers get closer to solving 200-year-old star system mystery - Xinhua | English.news.cn

DENVER, the United States, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Researchers here said Tuesday that they seem to be getting closer to…

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Earth Might Have Been Habitable Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

A new study exploring the geologic history of Earth has revealed that our planet's continental crust, or the relatively…

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Big data little help in megafauna mysteries

In March, the last male northern white rhinoceros died. The sub-species joins a long list of large land animals that…

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Tumultuous galaxy mergers better at switching on black holes

What does it take to switch on a supermassive black hole? A new study by researchers at CU Boulder explores that…

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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

There is a calculation suggesting that only one in a thousand massive galaxies is a relic of the early universe…

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Chandra Scouts Nearest Star System for Possible Hazards

A new study that has involved monitoring of Alpha Centauri for more than a decade by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory…

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The information about these new exoplanets has been obtained from the data collected by the K2 mission of NASA's Kepler…

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What it Takes to Discover Small Rocks in Space

Once every month, on average, somewhere on Earth a fireball appears out of nowhere and for mere seconds, casts a…

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New data-mining technique offers most-vivid picture of Martian mineralogy

A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison and including Bob Hazen have revealed the mineralogy of Mars at…

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What's Going On with Tabby's Star? It's Complicated - Sky & Telescope

Two new studies - one by a group of high school students - are investigating the strange environment around Tabby's…

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Rivedendo le età degli ammassi globulari

Una ricerca in uscita su Mnras rivela che gli ammassi globulari potrebbero avere 4 miliardi di anni meno del previsto…

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Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning

NASA's Juno spacecraft finds lightning on Jupiter is same as in Earth in some ways, opposite in others.

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NASA Re-plans Juno's Jupiter Mission

NASA has approved an update to Juno's science operations until July 2021.

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More Mystery Objects Detected Near Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole W. M. Keck Observatory

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Quando il giorno durava diciotto ore - Le Scienze

Una nuova combinazione di metodi astronomici, geologici e statistici ha collegato cambiamenti dell'asse di rotazione…

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Le onde gravitazionali rivelano il cuore delle stelle di neutroni - Le Scienze

Analizzando le onde gravitazionali emesse dalla fusione di due stelle di neutroni rilevata quasi un anno fa, gli…

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How Do You Weigh a Galaxy? Especially the One You're In?

A new technique for estimating the mass of galaxies promises more reliable results, especially when applied to large…

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New insight into Earth's crust, mantle and outer core interactions

A new study by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Universities of Lancaster and Oslo, sheds light…

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Collisions of Dead Stars Spray Heavy Elements Throughout Small Galaxies | Caltech

Caltech scientists have found, for the first time, that merging pairs of neutron stars-the burnt-out cores of stars…

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Engineers Solve Excessive Heat Removal from NASA's Webb Telescope

To keep heat away from the sensitive instruments, a majority of the electronics used to power and operate the…

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Data Discrepancies May Affect Understanding of the Universe

Text size: research One of the unsolved mysteries in modern science is why the expansion of the universe appears to be…

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New Horizons Wakes for Historic Kuiper Belt Flyby

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is back "awake" and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history - a…

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Astronomers Discover Lonely Neutron Star with a Curious Past - Sky & Telescope

New observations have helped astronomers identify the source of a 2,000-year-old supernova explosion. But this blast…

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Bacteria Survive in NASA's Clean Rooms by Eating Cleaning Products

Now, a team of scientists led by Rakesh Mogul from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona has discovered one…

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Gravitational Waves Reveal the Hearts of Neutron Stars

Inside a neutron star-the city-size, hyperdense cinder left after a supernova-modern physics plunges off the edge of…

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20 Years of Earth Data Now at Your Fingertips

Two decades of planetary change are available to explore in NASA's Worldview, giving the ability to interactively view…

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Giorni più lunghi grazie alla Luna

Il clima globale sulla Terra è influenzato dai cicli di Milankovitch, impressi nelle sequenze di sedimenti antichi. Un…

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4/6/2018

Earth's first giant predators produced killer babies

A new fossil study, led by Jianni Liu from the Northwest University in China, shows young radiodontan arthropods could…

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NIST Atomic Clock Comparison Confirms Key Assumptions of 'Einstein's Elevator'

By comparing different types of remote atomic clocks, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and…

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NASA's Hi-C Launches to Study Sun's Corona

NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space at 2:54 p.m. EST May 29, 2018, on its third…

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Thank the moon for Earth's lengthening day

For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are…

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Collective gravity, not Planet Nine, may explain the orbits of 'detached objects'

Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system-and not a mysterious ninth planet-may explain the the…

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Why are Jupiter's Galilean Moons So Massive? - Sky & Telescope

Jupiter, with its 67 known moons, can be viewed as a miniature solar system revolving around the Sun. Four of these…

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La vita dopo la catastrofe che estinse i dinosauri - Le Scienze

Dopo la caduta sulla Terra dell'asteroide che causò l'estinzione di massa di 66 milioni di anni fa, nella regione in…

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Can you see better than your dog, cat, or goldfish? | EarthSky.org

Whoa! EarthSky has nearly reach its funding goal for 2018. Click here to help. By Robin A.Smith/Duke University…

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Open science: Gaia sì, ma non per tutti

Quando è anche big science, spesso a pagarne il prezzo sono le carriere dei ricercatori coinvolti. È quanto sostiene…

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Sorpresa: le stelle massicce sono più del previsto

Un gruppo di scienziati, con a capo l'astronomo Zhi-Yu Zhang dell'Università di Edimburgo, ha usato il telescopio Alma…

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Decontaminazione non ti temo

I ricercatori si sono concentrati sull'Acinetobacter, una delle specie che la fa da padrone sulle sonde spaziali. Con…

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The perfect couple: Higgs and top quark spotted together

Today two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced a discovery that finally links the two heaviest…

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Tiny, far-flung worlds could explain outer Solar System's strange geometry

Denver, Colorado Hundreds of Moon-sized worlds may orbit the Sun far beyond Neptune, sculpting the geometry of the…

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Globular clusters 4 billion years younger than previously thought

The evolutionary process sees two stars interacting in a binary system, where one star expands into a giant whilst the…

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Curiosity Rover is Drilling Again - Sky & Telescope

An innovative technique has allowed NASA's Curiosity Rover to resume drilling Martian rocks. But more work remains to…

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Mars Curiosity's Labs Are Back in Action

NASA's Curiosity rover is analyzing drilled samples on Mars in one of its onboard labs for the first time in more than…

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There Are No Laws of Physics. There's Only the Landscape. | Quanta Magazine

Suppose Alice and Bob are both asked to prepare a meal. Alice likes Chinese, Bob likes Italian. They each pick their…

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ALMA and VLT Find Too Many Massive Stars in Starburst Galaxies, Near and Far

Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early Universe and a…

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3/6/2018

Tiny Asteroid Discovered Saturday Disintegrates Over Southern Africa

Asteroid 2018 LA entered Earth's atmosphere at about 9:44 a.m. PDT (12:44 p.m. EDT, 16:44 UTC), and later disintegrated…

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2/6/2018

What makes a halo around the sun or moon? | EarthSky.org

We get many messages throughout each year from people who've just spotted a large ring or circle of light around the…

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1/6/2018

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La…

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Hubble Spots a Green Cosmic Arc

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a cluster of hundreds of galaxies located about 7.5 billion light-years from…

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NEOWISE Thermal Data Used to Analyze Over 100 Asteroids

Data from NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft was used to create an…

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Grad Student Assists in Search for Potential Life-Hosting Planets Beyond Earth

In recent years, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets (and counting) - planets outside our solar…

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NASA Selects Mission to Study Solar Wind Boundary of Solar System

NASA has selected a science mission planned for launch in 2024 that will sample, analyze, and map particles streaming…

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NASA CubeSats Steer Toward Mars

NASA has achieved a first for the class of tiny spacecraft known as CubeSats, which are opening new access to space.

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L'antenna che emigrò al Polo Nord

Un nuovo radiotelescopio submillimetrico è entrato in funzione in Groenlandia, 1200 km dentro al circolo polare artico.

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The researchers who study alien linguistics

Sheri Wells-Jensen is fascinated by languages no one has ever heard - those that might be spoken by aliens. Last week…

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Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle | Quanta Magazine

Physicists are both thrilled and baffled by a new report from a neutrino experiment at Fermi National Accelerator…

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What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors

People who advocate adding insects to the human diet may be channeling their distant ancestors. Based on an analysis of…

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