agosto 2018

AstroNews 8/2018

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

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BepiColombo science orbiters stacked together

BepiColombo science orbiters stacked together The two science orbiters of the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission are…

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Water worlds are abundant in the universe, researchers say

Ocean worlds that would put the Kevin Costner's 1995 movie Waterworld to shame may be a dime a dozen elsewhere in the…

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Analysis suggests life sprang on Earth before the asteroids stopped pummelling the planet

DNA analysis pushes the date for emergence back to 4.5 billion years ago. Elizabeth Finkel reports.

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Black holes from a previous universe shine light on our own

Cold spots are a hot topic in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. Stephanie Rowlands reports.

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An epic Grand Tour: all the Eight planets seen on the same night, above the legendary monuments of…

Spying the entire planetary family in one night is not straightforward. You need that all the planets are far enough…

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Giove adolescente per due milioni di anni

Un gruppo di ricercatori dell'Eth di Zurigo, in Svizzera, ha dimostrato che il tempo impiegato dal giovane pianeta per…

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Gli audio dimenticati dell'Apollo 11

La Nasa ha reso disponibili in rete, in formato mp3, 19mila ore di audio dalla storica missione di 49 anni fa. Dialoghi…

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Ecco il getto sovraionizzato della Medusa

Tre risultati in un colpo solo per Emanuele Greco, dottorando all'Inaf di Palermo. Il jet analizzato nel suo studio su…

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Nebulosa della Carena con Vista

A circa 7500 anni luce di distanza da noi, nella costellazione della Carena, giace una nebulosa all'interno della quale…

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Hayabusa smaschera quel vecchietto di Itokawa

Uno studio condotto dai ricercatori dell'Università di Osaka, utilizzando i dati raccolti dalla sonda Hayabusa, ha…

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Come riaccendere una nana bianca

Un nuovo studio, accettato per la pubblicazione su The Astrophysical Journal, simula le interazioni tra un buco nero…

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LHC physicists finally uncover Higgs 'bottom' decay

The two largest experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS and CMS, have observed a previously undetected…

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UNH Researchers Find Solar Eruptions May Not Have Slinky-like Shapes After All

DURHAM, N.H. - As the saying goes, everything old is new again. While the common phrase often refers to fashion…

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Hubble observes energetic lightshow at Saturn's north pole

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular images featuring the…

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Water discovered in the Great Red Spot indicates Jupiter might have plenty more

CLEMSON, South Carolina - On Dec. 7, 1995, NASA's historic Galileo probe plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere at 106,000…

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NASA's InSight Has a Thermometer for Mars | Mars News

Ambitious climbers, forget Mt. Everest. Dream about Mars. The Red Planet has some of the tallest mountains in the solar…

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Martian Skies Clearing over Opportunity Rover

Clearing skies allow Opportunity rover engineers to plan for the future.

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Could Binary Mergers Help Us Find Intelligent Life?

How do we find extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) - not just life beyond Earth, but advanced extraterrestrial…

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How Gaia could help find Dyson spheres | EarthSky.org

When contemplating extraterrestrial intelligence, one of the most tantalizing ideas is that a super-advanced alien…

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Schrödinger's cat among biology's pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?

What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell Erwin Schrödinger Cambridge University Press (1944) In What Is…

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The Dirtiest Fight in Physics Is About the Universe Itself

A fight over the very nature of the universe has turned ugly on social media and in the popular science press, complete…

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Heads up! 2 comets to sweep past Earth | EarthSky.org

There's exciting news about two comets, one in our sky now, and one about to be. The first - comet…

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Press Releases - Unstoppable Monster in the Early Universe - ALMA obtains most detailed view of…

Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using…

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International Team of Astronomers Reveals New Details About 'Monster' Star-forming Galaxies

AMHERST, Mass. - An international team of astronomers from Japan, Mexico and the University of Massachusetts Amherst…

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College of Charleston Professor Discovers New Information About Black Holes

New research by College of Charleston rofessor physics and astronomy pChris Fragile may help scientists discover more…

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Stellar "swarms" help astronomers understand the evolution of stars

New work from Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and the American Museum of Natural History's Jacqueline Faherty identified…

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What is nothing? Martin Rees Q&A

Philosophers have debated the nature of "nothing" for thousands of years, but what has modern science got to say about…

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UZH - Jupiter hatte Wachstumsstörungen

With their calculations, the researchers showed that the time the young planet spent in the mass range of 15 to 50…

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Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever

A new study could help explain the driving force behind the largest mass extinction in the history of earth, known as…

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Ultima in View

New Horizons Makes First Detection of Kuiper Belt Flyby Target NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its first…

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Looking Into the Depths of the Great Red Spot to Find Water

Is there water deep in Jupiter's atmosphere, and if so, how much?

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SwRI scientist develops database for stellar-exoplanet "exploration"

August 28, 2018 - A Southwest Research Institute scientist is using big data to help the scientific community…

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JPL Roles in NASA's Sun-Bound Parker Solar Probe

JPL leading navigation for Parker Solar Probe and is involved with two of its onboard instruments.

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Artwork unveiled on exoplanet satellite

Artwork unveiled on exoplanet satellite Two plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children…

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The Halloween asteroid prepares to return in 2018

There is one year to go until asteroid 2015 TB145 approaches Earth once again, just as it did in 2015 around the night…

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NASA Spots the 'Great Pumpkin': Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers

NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of an asteroid with optical observatories and radar…

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Particles collected by Hayabusa give absolute age of asteroid Itokawa

Japanese scientists, including those from Osaka University, closely examined particles collected from the asteroid…

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Hubble observes energetic lightshow at Saturn's north pole

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular images featuring the…

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Laughing Gas May Have Helped Warm Early Earth and Given Breath to Life

More than an eon ago, the sun shone dimmer than it does today, but the Earth stayed warm due to a strong greenhouse gas…

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Begins Asteroid Operations Campaign

OSIRIS-REx, caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach toward its target.

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A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has used a combination of genomic and fossil data to…

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This beautiful map of Earth's atmosphere shows a world on fire

Our atmosphere is dominated by gas, chock-full of nitrogen and oxygen, with trace amounts of other gases all swirling…

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A World On Fire

The world is on fire. Or so it appears in this image from NASA's Worldview.

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Huge jets of water found streaming from distant protostar

Radio-telescopes in Chile push the limit for terrestrial observations. Ben Lewis reports.

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Landing site on the asteroid Ryugu determined

Next stop for MASCOT: A southern location, pleasant temperatures and a beautiful view Landing of the Hayabusa2 mission…

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Begins Asteroid Operations Campaign

OSIRIS-REx, caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach toward its target.

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L'evoluzione dell'universo in una sola foto

Il tenace telescopio spaziale Hubble, utilizzando diversi strumenti, è riuscito a comporre un ritratto di famiglia di…

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Dio non giocherà a dadi, ma i quasar sì

Pubblicati su Physical Review Letter i risultati di un test d'entanglement senza precedenti, condotto con l'ausilio di…

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L'astronauta più resistente? È femmina

Da uno studio condotto dal team di Susanna Rosi, neuroscienziata dell'Università della California a San Francisco…

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Acqua pesante e zucchero a 4300 anni luce

La giornata eccezionalmente secca e tersa del 5 aprile 2018 ha permesso al telescopio di Alma di operare al limite…

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Via Lattea, le sue due vite impresse nelle stelle

La nostra galassia ha attraversato un doppio periodo di formazione stellare con una lunga epoca dormiente nel mezzo…

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Asteroid Ryugu poses landing risks for Japanese mission

After inspecting asteroid Ryugu for two months, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed the sites…

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230-million-year-old turtle fossil deepens mystery of reptile's origins

A fossilized turtle discovered in southwestern China fills an evolutionary hole in how the reptiles developed features…

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Mum's a Neanderthal, Dad's a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid

A female who died around 90,000 years ago was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, according to genome analysis of a…

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Water worlds could support life, study says

The conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening…

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Water worlds are likely common | EarthSky.org

When it comes to searching for evidence of alien life, the phrase follow the water is often quoted as a guiding…

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Researchers find fast flip in Earth's magnetic field | EarthSky.org

A research team led by scientists in Taiwan and China announced on August 21, 2018, that Earth's protective magnetic…

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Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt, Water Ice Exists on the Moon

The view that Earth's moon is a dried out, desolate world may be all wet. A new analysis of data from the Indian Space…

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Curiosity Mission Updates - Mars Science Laboratory

Written by Brittney Cooper on The planning day began with an interesting result from the previous plan's ChemCam RMI…

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Check out these new flying pterosaur bones

Back in the day, dinosaurs roamed the earth, but pterosaurs were masters of the sky. Though better known as…

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Scoperta la "prima figlia" di padre Denisova e madre Neanderthal - Le Scienze

Aveva una madre neanderthaliana e un padre Denisova l'adolescente vissuta 90.000 anni fa in Siberia, dei cui resti è…

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I lampi ultra luminosi che rivelano la presenza di un buco nero - Le Scienze

Una nuova possibilità per individuare un buco nero sono i lampi ultra luminosi che si verificano quando una stella che…

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Stars memorize rebirth of our home galaxy

The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is considered its second life. Calculations by…

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Precise records of baby stars' growth caught at millimeter wavelengths

Babies grow up fast, in the blink of an eye, and thus their parents wish to record their growth without missing any…

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Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement

Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere provided strong support for quantum entanglement…

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Planet Formation Caught in the Act - Sky & Telescope

The gas giant PDS 70b made headlines last month as the directly imaged instance of early planet formation. Now a team…

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'Steve' Is a Radiant Purple Sky Ribbon That Defies Explanation

Image: Krista Trinder You may have met people named Steve in your life, but have you met the radiant ribbon of colorful…

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New kind of aurora is not an aurora at all

20 August 2018 WASHINGTON - Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a…

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Microfossils, possibly world's oldest, had biological characteristics

Scientists have confirmed that the 3.4-billion-year-old Strelley Pool microfossils had chemical characteristics similar…

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Infant exoplanet weighed by Hipparcos and Gaia

Infant exoplanet weighed by Hipparcos and Gaia The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time…

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Uranus is probably full of giant diamonds

When subjected to the pressures (and temperatures) of life on other planets, even familiar substances can get pretty…

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Star's coughing fit cools it down

A nebula showing a back-to-front temperature gradient is now better understood. Phil Dooley reports.

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A step closer to a theory of quantum gravity

Physicists reveal a new approach to resolving different predictions from relativity and quantum physics. Phil Dooley…

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Mars may be safe from terra-ism

The red planet may never be a green and pleasant land. Richard A Lovett reports.

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Il punto debole dei viaggi nel tempo - Le Scienze

Spostarsi avanti e indietro nel tempo è uno dei temi preferiti della fantascienza. Ma scrittori e sceneggiatori…

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La teoria delle stringhe produce meno universi del previsto - Le Scienze

La teoria delle stringhe prevede l'esistenza di una miriade di universi possibili, ognuno governato da leggi proprie…

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Wow! Zoom to the Milky Way's center | EarthSky.org

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have been working toward this video for 26 years. It's a zoom…

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UBC Okanagan researchers shine a light on 150-year old mystery

The idea that light has momentum is not new, but the exact nature of how light interacts with matter has remained a…

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Why Bennu? 10 Reasons - Solar System Exploration: NASA Science

After traveling for two years and billions of kilometers from Earth, the OSIRIS-REx probe is only a few months away…

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Bricks from Moon dust

Bricks from Moon dust Lunar masonry starts on Earth. European researchers are working with Moon dust simulants that…

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Study confirms truth behind 'Darwin's moth'

Researchers created artificial moths to test camouflage Scientists have revisited - and confirmed - one of the most…

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First Science with ALMA's Highest-Frequency Capabilities - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Synopsis: A team of scientists using the highest-frequency capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

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Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory | Quanta Magazine

On June 25, Timm Wrase awoke in Vienna and groggily scrolled through an online repository of newly posted physics…

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Discovering Magnetized Inflow Accreting to the center of Milky Way Galaxy - An important force to…

Is magnetic field an important guiding force for gas accreting to supermassive black hole (SMBH) - for example, the one…

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Sprawling galaxy cluster found hiding in plain sight

MIT scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4…

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Mysterious 'Alien' Radio Signal: Here's What You Need to Know

You may have seen recent headlines about a strange radio signal picked up by a Canadian telescope. Some go as far as to…

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Direct evidence of ice on Moon surface discovered

A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and…

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Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles

In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence…

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Why so few galaxies in this distant region of space? | EarthSky.org

Just as a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, there are also billions of galaxies in the universe overall. Those…

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In a massive region of space, astronomers find far fewer galaxies than they expected

TNG Collaboration A computer simulation of the distribution of matter in the universe. Orange regions host galaxies…

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Impact of a stellar intruder on our solar system

A near catastrophy billions of years ago might have shaped the outer parts of the solar system, while leaving the inner…

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Hubble Paints Picture of the Evolving Universe

Astronomers have just assembled one of the most comprehensive portraits yet of the universe's evolutionary history.

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New Horizons Spacecraft Sees Possible Hydrogen Wall at the End of the Solar System

As it speeds away from the Sun, the New Horizons mission may be approaching a "wall." The New Horizons spacecraft, now…

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Sibling Rivalry Caused Eta Carinae's Historic Explosion - Sky & Telescope

A nasty case of sibling rivalry may have caused an explosion in the massive star system known as Eta Carinae. New…

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Mind the Gap: Gaia Mission Reveals the Insides of Stars - Sky & Telescope

Using "Big Data" collected by the Gaia satellite and released earlier this year, astronomers have discovered a hiccup…

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Hot Dog di quasar in salsa di raggi X

Sono fino a mille volte più luminose della Via Lattea, ma oscurate da gas e polveri: gli astronomi le hanno chiamate…

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Corri, protone, corri

I protoni presenti nei nuclei degli atomi più pesanti sembrano avere in media più "vigore" dei neutroni, e questo…

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Ferro e titanio: l'atmosfera infernale di Kelt-9b

In orbita stetta attorno a una stella a 650 anni luce da noi, il gigante gassoso ha una temperatura elevatissima: oltre…

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Aretha Franklin, la Nasa le dedica un asteroide

Scoperto nel 2010, l'asteroide della fascia principale 2010 CV60 era stato dedicato - dall'astronoma dell'Agenzia…

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Auroras Discovered Around Rogue Brown Dwarf - Sky & Telescope

Astronomers have discovered auroras around a set of brown dwarfs - including one that wanders the galaxy by itself …

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Astronomers find weird rogue world with wild auroras | EarthSky.org

Rogue planets are free-floating worlds, drifting in space between the stars. A growing number of these odd objects have…

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Elegante e vorace: storia di una galassia ellittica

Il progetto è parte della survey Vegas, che ha lo scopo di esaminare un ampio campione di galassie ellittiche in…

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L'alba del Sistema solare in tre varietà d'ossigeno

Lo studio dei composti organici presenti in rare meteoriti, provenienti da asteroidi rimasti intatti sin dai tempi…

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La stella gigante con più litio nella Via Lattea

Un gruppo di astronomi a guida cinese ha scoperto una stella gigante con un'abbondanza record di litio. L'osservazione…

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The Only Known Sound in Space Is This 'Singing' Black Hole

Everyone knows there is no sound in space. After all, a sound wave requires a medium, like air or water, to travel…

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Pulsar vs. dark matter

Il misterioso eccesso di radiazione gamma proveniente dal centro della Via Lattea non sarebbe causato…

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Under pressure, hydrogen offers a reflection of giant planet interiors

Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists including Carnegie's Alexander Goncharov to probe…

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Astronomers Identify Some of the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe

Astronomers from Durham University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found evidence that…

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Faculty of Science, HKU -

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Spain, the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) of The…

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Earth's ingredients seem 'pretty normal', says new study

The Earth's building blocks seem to be built from 'pretty normal' ingredients, according to researchers working with…

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Plate tectonics not necessary for alien life? | EarthSky.org

Plate tectonics have long been thought to have been necessary for the development of life on Earth, in part due to…

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Elliptical Elegance

A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope, a state-of-the-art 2.6-m…

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Astronomers discover furthest radio galaxy ever

After almost twenty years the record for the most distant radio galaxy has been broken. A team of astronomers led by…

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Moscow State University discovers supermassive black hole in an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy | V3

Astronomers from Moscow State University have discovered a supermassive black hole in an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy…

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Scientists discovered organic acid in a protoplanetary disk

International team of scientists from Russia (including a research associate of the Kourovka Astronomical Observatory…

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Arecibo Observatory to Get $5.8 Million Upgrade to Expand View

The National Science Foundation has awarded a team of scientists $5.8 million to design and mount a supersensitive…

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Six Things About Opportunity's Recovery Efforts

The global dust storm on Mars could soon let in enough sunlight for the Opportunity rover to recharge.

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In neutron stars, protons may do the heavy lifting

Neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars in the universe, born out of the gravitational collapse of extremely…

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Iron and titanium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet: Metal vapors have been detected in the…

Exoplanets can orbit close to their host star. When the host star is much hotter than our sun, then the exoplanet…

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Early Opaque Universe Linked to Galaxy Scarcity

Team led by UC Riverside astronomer George Becker used the Subaru telescope to make the discovery Computer simulation…

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Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth's oldest rocks

Scientists have found that 4.02-billion-year-old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada -- the oldest…

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Impact of a stellar intruder on our solar system

A near catastrophy billions of years ago might have shaped the outer parts of the solar system, while leaving the inner…

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Finding the Happy Medium of Black Holes

Scientists have taken major steps in their hunt to find black holes that are neither very small nor extremely large…

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Pairs of Small Colliding Galaxies May Seed Future Stars

Study Highlights Role of Dwarf-Galaxy Mergers in Refueling Other Galaxies with Gas A pair of dwarf galaxies closely…

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Chinese Astronomers Discover Most Lithium-rich Giant in Galaxy with LAMOST---Chinese Academy of…

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ASU astrophysicist helps discover that ultrahot planets have starlike atmospheres

Recent observations by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes of ultrahot Jupiter-like planets have perplexed…

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Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters

Ultrahot Jupiters are planets with scorching daysides, where water molecules are ripped apart, only to re-form on the…

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Omega Centauri Unlikely to Harbor Life

Close encounters between stars in the Milky Way's largest globular cluster leave little room for habitable planetary…

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PhD student develops spinning heat shield for future spacecraft

A University of Manchester PhD student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce…

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ESA Science & Technology: New image gallery for the Planetary Science Archive

Scientists exploring ESA's Planetary Science Archive website can now browse images and other data products via a visual…

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The Umov Effect: Space dust clouds and the mysteries of the universe

FEFU scientists are developing a methodology to calculate the ratio of dust and gas in comas and tails of comets. This…

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Study helps solve mystery under Jupiter's coloured bands

Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in…

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Another blow for the dark matter interpretation of the Galactic Center Excess - IoP - University of…

For almost ten years, astronomers have been studying a mysterious diffuse radiation coming from the center of our…

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AlphaGalileo > Item Display

Confirmation of exoplanets and solar systems may shed light on our place in the cosmos. Forty-four planets in solar…

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Million fold increase in the power of waves near Jupiter's moon Ganymede

Listening to electro-magnetic waves around the Earth, converted to sound, is almost like listening to singing and…

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Planet-Hunting TESS Catches a Comet Before Starting Science

Before NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet…

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ISS end-of-life options

Bethesda, MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 - NASA expects to end support of the International Space Station (ISS) in about six…

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The Fading Ghost of a Long-Dead Star

Thin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova remnants in the Milky Way galaxy in…

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It's Surprisingly Hard to Go to the Sun

The Sun contains 99.8 percent of the mass in our solar system. Its gravitational pull is what keeps everything here…

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Spacecraft to Speed Through Sun's Atmosphere and Snag Solar Wind | Caltech

A new NASA mission, set to launch on August 11, will whip through the sun's sizzling outer atmosphere, or corona…

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is About to Lift Off

Stay tuned - Parker is about to take flight. At 3:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 11, while most of the U.S. is asleep, NASA's…

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VLA Detects Possible Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Magnetic Powerhouse - National Radio Astronomy…

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Very Large ArrayThe Very Large…

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Scientists identify best exoplanets for Earth-like life | EarthSky.org

Thousands of exoplanets are now being discovered - there are 3,815 confirmed as of August 1, 2018 - but how many of…

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'Sorry Elon Musk, but it's now clear that colonising Mars is unlikely - and a bad idea'

Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an…

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Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC…

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Dust in space: 10 cool things to know | EarthSky.org

By Preston Dyches/NASA Science To most of us, dust is something to be cleaned up, washed off or wiped away. But the…

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Exoplanet detectives create catalog of 'light-fingerprints'

Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using…

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Pair of Colliding Stars Spill Radioactive Molecules into Space - National Radio Astronomy…

Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a form, or…

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Carbon 'leak' may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization

The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades to…

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Astronomers Blown Away by Historic Stellar Blast

Observations from the Gemini South and other telescopes in Chile played a critical role in understanding light echoes…

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The end-Cretaceous extinction unleashed modern shark diversity - Uppsala University, Sweden

A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was…

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The universe's rate of expansion is in dispute - and we may need new physics to solve it

Next time you eat a blueberry (or chocolate chip) muffin consider what happened to the blueberries in the batter as it…

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Un fantasma nella Via Lattea

Quello osservato dall'occhio del telescopio a infrarossi Spitzer della Nasa - che il 25 agosto prossimo celebrerà il…

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Magnetico, solitario, misterioso: pianeta o stella?

Oggetto di confine tra gigante gassoso e nana bruna, ha un nome che due numeri telefonici non bastano, è il primo…

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Il triangolo esplosivo di Eta Carinae

Un nuovo studio condotto da ricercatori dell'Università dell'Arizona e dello Space Telescope Science Institute ha…

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Luce ultravioletta fondamentale per la vita

Uno studio pubblicato ieri su Science Advances, grazie al lavoro svolto da un team di ricercatori del Regno Unito, ha…

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Cristalli di Sole primordiale

Nato 4.6 miliardi di anni fa, conosciamo il Sole come una stella matura e calma. Ma i suoi primi anni rimangono un…

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