marzo 2018

AstroNews 3/2018

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

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27 min readMar 3, 2018

30/3/2018

First age-map of the heart of the Milky Way

First age-map of the heart of the Milky Way European Week of Astronomy and Space Science press release RAS PR 18/7…

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Astrophysicists map the infant Universe in 3D and discover 4000 early galaxies

Astrophysicists map the infant Universe in 3D and discover 4000 early galaxiesEuropean Week of Astronomy and Space…

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ESA reentry expertise

Loading... ESA reentry expertise Every week, on average, a substantial, inert satellite drops into our atmosphere and…

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Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?

In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of rocks. Mars, for example, has…

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Understanding the Outer Reaches of Earth's Atmosphere

Up above the clouds, Earth's atmosphere gives way to space. This interface is called the ionosphere. Changes in the…

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Astronomers capture video of Tiangong-1, before it falls | EarthSky.org

Experienced sky observers are doing their best to track China's first space station, Tiangong-1 (Heavenly Palace 1), as…

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NASA Invests in Shapeshifters, Biobots, Other Visionary Technology

NASA is investing in technology concepts that includes meteoroid impact detection, space telescope swarms and small…

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29/3/2018

ESA Science & Technology: Winning exoplanet rocket sticker selected

29 March 2018 A colourful design capturing the essence of ESA's CHEOPS mission, which will measure the size of planets…

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Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets

MIT researchers have used physics principles to improve the performance of a machine-learning system, trained on data…

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X-rays could sterilise alien planets in (otherwise) habitable zones

X-rays could sterilise alien planets in (otherwise) habitable zones European Week of Astronomy and Space Science press…

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Mars mission: how increasing levels of space radiation may halt human visitors

From surviving take off to having to rely on oxygen tanks to breathe in orbit, space travel is incredibly risky. But a…

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First test success for largest Mars mission parachute

The largest parachute ever to fly on a Mars mission has been deployed in the first of a series of tests to prepare for…

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James Webb Space Telescope: lancio posticipato

Senza preavviso, la Nasa rinvia di nuovo il lancio del più grande telescopio spaziale della storia dell'umanità, il…

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'Oumuamua: asteroide o cometa?

'Oumuamua, il primo oggetto interstellare comparso nel nostro Sistema solare nell'ottobre dello scorso anno, sta…

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Terra: pianeta blu, da sempre

La massa d'acqua che costituisce gli oceani terrestri era presente anche prima del violento impatto che ha dato origine…

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Whisper From the First Stars Sets Off Loud Dark Matter Debate | Quanta Magazine

The news about the first stars in the universe always seemed a little off. Last July, Rennan Barkana, a cosmologist at…

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Mars One Is a "Money Grab" Where Everyone Loses

The marketing for Mars One declares, "COME WITH US." It's an irresistible call to action, but people who've paid the…

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Why a galaxy with no dark matter could make it hard to prove there's no dark matter

Astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues wanted to know more about how these huge, star sparse structures worked…

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28/3/2018

Russia's Robot FEDOR to Be the First to Fly to Space on Board New Spacecraft

The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit…

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UA-Led NASA Survey Seen as Steppingstone for Astronomy

Imagine trying to see a firefly next to a distant spotlight, where the beams from the spotlight all but drown out the…

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Astronomers find 72 bright and fast explosions

Astronomers find 72 bright and fast explosions European Week of Astronomy and Space Science press release RAS PR 18/10…

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Supernova may have 'burped' before exploding

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The slow fade of radioactive elements following a supernova allows astrophysicists to…

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A Galaxy Without (Much) Dark Matter - Sky & Telescope

You can't have a cup of coffee without the cup. Astronomers have long thought the same goes for galaxies and dark…

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Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy

Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don't find one without the other.

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How Do You Make A Galaxy Without Dark Matter? - Dunlap Institute

TORONTO] A team of astronomers has discovered a unique galaxy-the first of its kind-that appears to contain virtually…

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Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço

S. C. C. Barros, V. Adibekyan, E. Delgado Mena, O. Demangeon, P. Figueira, J. J. Neal e S. G. Sousa (Instituto de…

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NASA Prepares to Launch Next Mission to Search Sky for New Worlds

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch…

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'Marsquakes' Could Shake Up Planetary Science

InSight, the next mission to the Red Planet, will use seismology to see into the depths of Mars.

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Lo strano caso della galassia trasparente

Le galassie normalmente hanno più materia oscura di quella ordinaria, ma la dinamica degli oggetti all'interno della…

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A Victory for Dark Matter in a Galaxy Without Any | Quanta Magazine

Astronomers first discovered the galaxy in 2000 as a smudge on old photographic plates. But more detailed observations…

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Beguiling dark-matter signal persists 20 years on

A group of physicists says that it is still detecting the presence of dark matter - the mystery substance thought to…

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NASA's most anticipated new telescope just got delayed again

NASA just pushed back the launch of the costly and ambitious James Webb Space Telescope. Again. The launch is now…

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Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter

An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have…

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27/3/2018

Newly-discovered planet is hot, metallic and dense as Mercury

Hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury detected 339 light years away and characterised by…

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Is 'Oumuamua an Interstellar Pancake? - Sky & Telescope

A new analysis of more than 800 telescopic observations suggests that our first known interstellar visitor could have…

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New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Can Teach Us

The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named 'Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective…

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Curiosity Rover Gets Ready for Its Next Adventure

This mosaic, taken by the Mars Curiosity rover, looks uphill at Mount Sharp.

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Kepler scopre il segreto delle supernove veloci

Tra i tanti misteriosi fenomeni esplosivi nell'universo e non ancora spiegati dagli astronomi c'erano i cosiddetti…

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A Runaway Star in the Small Magellanic Cloud - Lowell Observatory

Flagstaff, AZ.- Astronomers have discovered a rare "runaway" star that is speeding across its galaxy at a 300,000 miles…

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NASA's Webb Observatory Requires More Time for Testing and Evaluation

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope currently is undergoing final integration and test phases that will require more time…

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NASA reveals major delay for $8-billion Hubble successor

NASA will delay the launch of its ambitious James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by nearly a year, until approximately May…

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Gone in a flash: supernova burns up in just 25 days

Huge, bright and incredibly violent, a new supernova provides new challenges for astronomers. Lauren Fuge reports.

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26/3/2018

Mediterranean megaflood confirmed

The Med experienced a flood of Biblical proportions in pre-Biblical times. Andrew Masterson reports.

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Una super-Terra con un super nucleo

Francesca Faedi e Aldo Bonomo, ricercatori dell'Inaf, hanno partecipato alla caratterizzazione di K2-229b, un…

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Astronomers think they saw a star exploding out of a giant gas bubble

It appeared as a flash of light on the arm of a distant spiral galaxy. It outshone neighboring stars, an…

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Experiment Probes Mystery of Matter-Antimatter Imbalance

Scientists working on the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment have shown that they can shield a sensitive, scalable…

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A space window to electrifying science

Lightning triggers powerful electrical bursts in Earth's atmosphere almost every second. The inner workings of these…

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The Saga of Indian Remote Sensing Satellite System - ISRO

IRS-1A, the first of the series of indigenous state-of-art operating remote sensing satellites, was successfully…

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Pluto's mountains may have slid along a kilometre a day

Giant mountains of ice up to 5000 metres tall may have broken off the rim of Pluto's Sputnik Planitia and "sledded" 100…

cosmosmagazine.com

Science Mission Directorate

Enveloping our planet and protecting us from the fury of the Sun is a giant bubble of magnetism called the…

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Stephen Hawking's final interview

Last October I invited Prof Stephen Hawking to comment on the detection of gravitational waves from the collision of…

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Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars

The Kepler space telescope, famous for finding exoplanets, has also been valuable in tracking exploding stars known as…

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24/3/2018

Braccio di ferro ai confini della Via Lattea

Alla periferia della nostra galassia è in atto un braccio di ferro cosmico tra due galassie nane: la Grande Nube di…

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Five weird quantum effects

Beyond Schrodinger's cat and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle lies a whole world of quantum weirdness, writes Lauren…

cosmosmagazine.com

23/3/2018

Understanding gravity: The nanoscale search for extra dimensions

A Japan-US research collaboration involving Osaka University has used a pulsed slow neutron beamline to probe the…

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Gli ultimi Neanderthal e noi - Le Scienze

I genomi di cinque neanderthaliani vissuti fra 39.000 e 47.000 anni fa hanno permesso di ricostruire la linea temporale…

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Decades of research identify source of galaxy-sized stream of gas

A cloud of gas 300,000 light-years long is arching around the Milky Way, shunted away from two dwarf galaxies orbiting…

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Decades of research identify source of galaxy-sized stream of gas

A cloud of gas 300,000 light-years long is arching around the Milky Way, shunted away from two dwarf galaxies orbiting…

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Astronomers Witness X-ray Burst from Newborn Neutron Star - Sky & Telescope

Astronomers working with the INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) satellite have recently…

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Qualcosa scalda il gas nei vuoti cosmici

Una ricerca pubblicata su Physical Review D. ha analizzato le proprietà del gas intergalattico nelle regioni meno dense…

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L'intero universo in un click

È online ormai da un paio d'anni ESASky, l'atlante dell'universo dell'Agenzia Spaziale Europea, visitabile dal proprio…

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22/3/2018

Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere

A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth's atmosphere into an…

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No human DNA found in Neanderthal genome

Despite evidence that Neanderthals and humans swapped genes, none of the human ones appear to have been retained…

cosmosmagazine.com

MSU-based scientists dedicated the birth of a new black hole to Stephen Hawking

One of the MASTER Global Robotic Net telescopes (MSU) located on Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands) helped the scientists…

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Hubble Solves Cosmic 'Whodunit' with Interstellar Forensics

On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding-and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see who's…

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India to Experiment With Igloo-like Structures on the Moon - Minister

Asia & Pacific Get short URL Indian scientists will use robots and 3D printers to build igloo-like structures using…

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Mars Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day on the Red Planet. An image mosaic…

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Chang'e-4 Lunar Probe will Reach the Far Side of the Moon

Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 22, 2018 - The mission of Chang'e-4 lunar probe will proceed in two phases this year, and…

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Look Inside the Orion Nebula - Sky & Telescope

New ALMA observations reveal a fiber-like structures within a longer, well-studied filament in the Orion Nebula. These…

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Il Disco di Nebra è ancora un mistero

Il Disco di Nebra è un caso archeo-astronomico che fa discutere da quasi vent'anni.

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Vista sul Palazzo Celeste

L'Istituto tedesco Fraunhofer ha raccolto alcune immagini in banda radio di Tiangong-1, il laboratorio orbitante cinese…

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Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein's Theory | Quanta Magazine

We all dream the same dream, here in theoretical physics. We dream of the day when one of our equations will be plotted…

www.quantamagazine.org

21/3/2018

E.T. c'è un problema: la caducità delle civiltà

Da decenni siamo in ascolto di segnali alieni, finora senza successo. Le variabili da considerare sono tante, espresse…

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Good news: these exoplanets probably have water. Bad news: AHHH SO MUCH WATER.

Last year, the world got a look at an incredible star system, TRAPPIST-1, which had seven intriguing planets orbiting…

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I pianeti di Trappist-1: leggeri e pieni di acqua

Siamo abituati a pensare che l'acqua sia alla base della vita come la conosciamo ed è sicuramente vero con le…

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La stella che sfiorò il sistema solare

Nuove evidenze confermano il passaggio, settantamila anni fa, di una stella nei pressi del sistema solare. Transitando…

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A giant cliff collapse on a comet reveals pristine ice beneath the surface

On July 10th, 2015, a chunk of cliff with the same volume as nine Olympic-sized swimming pools tumbled from its perch…

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20/3/2018

The search for dark matter widens: New scintillation material shows promise in search for light…

Investigators report the discovery of a new material that may be able to directly detect dark matter. The material…

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Unique Crystals Could Expand the Search for Dark Matter

A new particle detector design proposed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab could greatly broaden the…

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Earth's atmosphere: new results from the International Space Station

With ESA's help, the latest atmosphere monitor on the International Space Station is delivering results on our planet's…

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UCL to lead European mission to study new planets

UCL is leading a multi-million pound European mission to study newly discovered planets after it was selected today as…

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ESA's next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets

ESA's next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets The nature of planets orbiting stars in other systems will…

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TRAPPIST-1 planets provide clues to the nature of habitable worlds

ASU scientists Cayman Unterborn, Steven Desch and Alejandro Lorenzo of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, with…

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A star disturbed the comets of the solar system in prehistory

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Scientists solve mystery of why comets emit X-rays

The mystery of how comets are able to emit X-rays has been solved by a team led by the University of Oxford.

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Echi radio d'un drammatico pasto stellare

Ecco cosa accade durante il funesto banchetto di un buco nero supermassiccio. L'energia sprigionata è immensa e le…

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First space mission dedicated to exoplanet atmospheres gets green light

The world's first space telescope dedicated to studying the atmospheres of exoplanets is set to launch in 2028, after…

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Mille atmosfere aliene nell'occhio di Ariel

Quali gli obiettivi scientifici di Ariel, il telescopio spaziale che l'Esa ha appena selezionato per essere la quarta…

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Ariel: atmosfere degli esopianeti senza segreti

Via libera definitivo dell'Esa alla realizzazione del telescopio spaziale per lo studio delle atmosfere esoplanetarie…

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Buchi neri o bizzarre stelle quantistiche? - Le Scienze

Nuovi studi suggeriscono un meccanismo che potrebbe permettere l'esistenza di stelle nere e gravastar, oggetti celesti…

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NASA Marshall Advances 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Nozzle Technology

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (NASA PR) - Rocket engine nozzles operate in extreme temperatures and pressures from the combustion…

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19/3/2018

A star disturbed the comets of the solar system in prehistory

About 70,000 years ago, when the human species was already on Earth, a small reddish star approached our solar system…

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How can you know what to believe? | EarthSky.org

A new study - published March 13, 2018, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications - again links warming Arctic…

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La stella fa le bizze e il pianeta si nasconde

Un nutrito gruppo di astronomi guidati da Mario Damasso dell'Inaf hanno caratterizzato due dei tre esopianeti attorno…

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'Oumuamua? È "figlio" d'una coppia di stelle

Stando a una ricerca appena pubblicata su Mnras, il nostro primo visitatore interstellare, passato vicino alla Terra lo…

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'Oumuamua likely came from a binary star system

The Royal Astronomical Society, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and…

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Mars' oceans formed early, possibly aided by massive volcanic eruptions

A new scenario seeking to explain how Mars' putative oceans came and went over the last 4 billion years implies that…

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ESA testing detection of floating plastic litter from orbit

The millions of tonnes of plastic ending up in the oceans every year are a global challenge. ESA is responding by…

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Cosmologists Create Largest Simulation of Galaxy Formation, Break Their Own Record

A multi-institutional team gives the cosmology community a world-class simulation to study how the universe formed…

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Predicting the Lifespan of Materials in Space

It is vital for scientists to know exactly how long a material will last in outer space; which is why Kim de Groh, a…

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Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may be water worlds

There's so much water on some of TRAPPIST-1's seven Earth-sized planets that any life lurking there might be difficult…

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Physicist Proposes Alternative to Black Holes - Sky & Telescope

A physicist has incorporated a quantum mechanical idea with general relativity to arrive at a new alternative to black…

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Dwarf planet still growing

Chemical compounds on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres shows that it is still evolving.

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18/3/2018

Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star

On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of telescopes picked up signals from 300 million light years away that were created…

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17/3/2018

Risolto il mistero delle luci violette

Grazie alla citizen science promossa dal sito Aurorasaurus e alla missione Swarm dell'Esa, si è finalmente scoperta la…

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16/3/2018

Black Hole Pretenders Could Really Be Bizarre Quantum Stars

When giant stars die, they don't just fade away. Instead they collapse in on themselves, leaving behind a compressed…

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Astronomers can't figure out why some black holes got so big so fast

The existence of supermassive black holes in the early universe has never made much sense to astronomers. Sightings…

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Here's where we're actually looking for intelligent life

Scientists at SETI send out signals in hopes of hailing alien life-and put out all sorts of telescopes and sensors in…

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NASA almost never came to be. Its creation is a lesson in political power.

President Trump's proposed 2019 budget calls for deep cuts to research, and while it is unlikely to gain traction in…

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60-Second Astronomy News: Relic Galaxy, Changing Ceres & Aurora Named "Steve"

Astronomy news this week: Hubble reveals a relic galaxy, Dawn sees the surface of asteroid Ceres changing, and…

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Cintura di Orione con telescopio Cherenkov

Utilizzando in modo innovativo il metodo della varianza con la camera del telescopio Astri (Astrofisica con Specchi a…

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Ascoltando Radio Sole

Raccogliendo l'idea di Alberto Pellizzoni, ricercatore dell'Inaf di Cagliari, un team dell'Istituto nazionale di…

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La prima volta dei cataloghi astronomici

Messier, Abell, Ngc... A cosa corrispondono quei prefissi che troviamo sempre nei nomi di oggetti celesti come…

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Australia's Jurassic Park leaves lasting impressions

A stretch of coastline in north-western Australia abounds with evidence of one of the world's most diverse dinosaur…

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15/3/2015

Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous

The strange, cosmic reason our evolutionary path will look ever luckier the longer we survive It was hard times for the…

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AI bests humans at mapping the moon

Artificial intelligence is helping draw a more detailed map of the moon. An AI that studied lunar images to learn what…

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Kepler si prepara alla pensione

Il carburante rimasto in serbatoio dovrebbe bastare ancora per qualche mese (molti, secondo gli ingegneri) ma entro la…

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Prevenire l'Armageddon in laboratorio

L'umanità ora sa quanto deve essere potente un'arma nucleare per riuscire a distruggere un asteroide in rotta di…

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Scientists design conceptual asteroid deflector and evaluate it against massive potential threat

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a…

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NASA Science Heading to Space - from the Upper Atmosphere to Microbes

A Dragon spacecraft scheduled to launch into orbit no earlier than April 2, carries the 14th SpaceX commercial resupply…

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The view from inside supersonic combustion: Designing scramjets with extremely high-speed…

In supersonic engines, achieving the right flow speed, producing the right ratio of evaporated fuel and causing…

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NASA Powers on New Instrument Staring at the Sun

NASA's TSIS-1 has been powered on and is currently tracking the Sun, although its operational life with begin in March…

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UNH Researchers Find Space Radiation is Increasingly More Hazardous

DURHAM, N.H. - It might sound like something from a science fiction plot - astronauts traveling into deep space being…

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Advances in human behaviour came surprisingly early in Stone Age

Early humans in eastern Africa crafted advanced tools and displayed other complex behaviours tens of thousands of years…

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Welcome to the Center of the Universe

Shannon Stirone | Longreads | March 2018 | 22 minutes (5,546 words) The power has just gone out in mission control. I…

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14/3/2018

Scientists find seismic imaging is blind to water

When an earthquake strikes, nearby seismometers pick up its vibrations in the form of seismic waves. In addition to…

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Synopsis: Cosmic Voids Under Pressure

An analysis of distortions in the cosmic microwave background reveals information about the gas inside large voids in…

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Hubble: Weather Watcher of the Outer Solar System - Sky & Telescope

Storms in the outer solar system have researchers puzzled - and Hubble is here to help. Jupiter's Great Red Spot has…

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Hubble trova una galassia relitto vicino a casa

Si chiama Ngc 1277 ed è una galassia fantasma, antico relitto di un'evoluzione interrotta tantissimi anni fa…

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Vent'anni a spasso con la Crab

Pubblicata una nuova immagine composita della Nebulosa del Granchio, ottenuta dalle osservazioni multifrequenza dei…

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Acqua, elisir di gioventù per Cerere

Il pianeta nano Cerere, l'oggetto celeste più grande nella fascia principale del nostro Sistema solare, si sta…

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Laser-heated nanowires produce micro-scale nuclear fusion, with record efficiency

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers our sun, happens when nuclear reactions between light elements produce heavier…

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CosmoQuest releases Mappers 2.0 for crater mapping

An infinite supply of craters to map and catalogue. The CosmoQuest Citizen Science facility released a major update to…

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You haven't lived till you've been to Phobos

It's 2218, and you've got some vacation time coming up. A hundred years ago this meant choices like the Bahamas, wine…

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Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Paradox Keeps Physicists Puzzled | Quanta Magazine

The renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, who died today at 76, was something of a betting man, regularly…

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Galassie come orologi cosmici

Da una nuova ricerca apparsa su Mnras, sembra che tutte le galassie, indipendentemente dalla loro grandezza, impieghino…

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Astronomers discover galaxies spin like clockwork - ICRAR

Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are. The Earth…

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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Nearing the End as Fuel Runs Low

Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs…

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Mystery of Purple Lights in Sky Solved With Citizen Scientists' Help

Citizen scientists, satellites and researchers solve the mystery of new purple lights in the sky. The lights, called…

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NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface

Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the dwarf planet is a dynamic body…

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: Crab Nebula :: March 14, 2018

The latest image of the Crab is a composite with X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), NASA's Hubble Space Telescope…

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Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018 - Sky & Telescope

Professor Stephen William Hawking passed away on the morning of March 14, 2018, in the comfort of his home in…

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Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor-neuron disease at the age of 21, it wasn't clear that he would finish his…

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Science mourns Stephen Hawking's death

Stephen Hawking, one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century and perhaps the most celebrated icon…

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Stephen Hawking: a brief history of genius

AFP/File / NIKLAS HALLE'N Stephen Hawking, who has died aged 76, was Britain's most famous modern day scientist, a…

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13/3/2018

'Red and dead' NGC 1277 offers insights on the early universe

March 13 (UPI) -- New analysis of a "relic galaxy" promises insights into the nature of the early universe. Formed some…

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Il volo "da fagiano" di Archaeopteryx - Le Scienze

Questo animale bizzarro vissuto nel Giurassico volava attivamente, sia pure per brevi tratti e con uno stile differente…

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Yale's EXPRES instrument ready to find the next Earth analog

A new, ground-based spectrometer designed and built at Yale represents the most powerful step yet in the effort to…

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Potent Mexico City earthquake was a rare 'bending' quake, study finds - and it could happen again

Six months have passed since a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, toppling 40 buildings and killing over 300…

theconversation.com

UH Optometrist Investigates Changes in Eye Structure in Astronauts

Astronauts who spend time aboard the International Space Station return to Earth with changes to the structure of their…

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Getting Taller as it Shrinks

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half.

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Russian physicists make toy asteroids and blast them with a laser

Researchers created small copies of asteroids in the laboratory, and then destroyed them with lasers. The nanosecond…

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Asteroids and comets shower Mars with organics

Asteroids and comets appear to be a much more important supplier of organic molecules on Mars than expected. Until now…

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Next NASA Mars Rover Reaches Key Milestone

NASA's Mars 2020 mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track…

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New Horizons Chooses Nickname for 'Ultimate' Flyby Target

As NASA's New Horizons mission continues exploring the unknown, the mission team has selected a highly appropriate…

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S'è risvegliato il mostro, ed è un BL Lac

Si trova tra la costellazione del Serpente e quella della Vergine, a 2.7 miliardi d'anni luce da noi. Ha una massa pari…

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Kepler vede 16 nuovi mini-Nettuno e super-Terre

K2, l'aggiornamento apportato alla missione della Nasa nel 2013, ha scoperto 16 nuovi esopianeti attorno a stelle…

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Materia oscura? No, Pulsar millisecondo

Un team di astronomi dell'Australian National University ha scoperto che un misterioso segnale gamma proveniente dal…

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Mysterious signal comes from old stars at centre of galaxy

A team of astronomers involving ANU has discovered that a mysterious gamma-ray signal from the centre of the Milky Way…

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12/3/2018

KIT - KIT - Media - Press Releases - PI 2018 - Mars Mission: Testing Instruments in the Black…

Being "The Research University in the Helmholtz Association", KIT creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the…

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We probably won't hear from aliens. But by the time we do, they'll be dead.

If signals from an alien civilization ever reach Earth, odds are the aliens will already be dead. In an effort to…

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NASA's Webb Prepares for Additional Testing

Engineers removed the combined optics and science instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope from their shipping…

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Why the Dark Energy Problem Spawned the Multiverse Hypothesis | Quanta Magazine

The controversial idea that our universe is just a random bubble in an endless, frothing multiverse arises logically…

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Hubble Finds Relic Galaxy Close to Home

Astronomers have put NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient "relic galaxy"…

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Press Release - Double or Nothing: Astronomers Rethink Quasar Environment - Subaru Telescope

Using Hyper Suprime-Cam mounted on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified nearly 200 protoclusters, the…

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ASU Emerge to create a moon colony on campus

A good book can transport the reader into a faraway universe filled with rich detail. The seventh annual ASU Emerge…

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Juno svela le profondità dei venti di Giove

Le strisce colorate che circondano il gigante del Sistema solare sembra siano profonde ben 3000 km, e la massa…

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15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars

Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets - including one 'super-Earth' that could harbor liquid water …

www.titech.ac.jp

The occurrence of magnetism in the Universe - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, HZDR

Press Release of March 12, 2018: Flows of molten metal can generate magnetic fields. This so-called dynamo effect…

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Elon Musk plans to launch spacecraft for Mars in 2019

March 12 (UPI) -- Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Sunday that he is on track to launch a spacecraft for Mars by…

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Complex organic compounds from dying stars could be life precursors

Laboratory experiments designed to recreate conditions around carbon-rich red giant stars have revealed that…

cosmosmagazine.com

11/3/2018

Chury originata da una collisione catastrofica

Una nuova scoperta, realizzata da un team internazionale coordinato dal Cnrs, afferma che le comete composte da due…

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9/3/2018

Superconductors may shed light on the black hole information paradox

LOS ANGELES - Insights into a black hole paradox may come from a down-to-Earth source. Superconductors, materials…

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L'equazione di Schrödinger nello spazio - Le Scienze

L'evoluzione a lungo termine dei dischi di materia che orbitano attorno a grandi masse nel cosmo può essere descritta…

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Experiment sheds new light on prehistoric ocean conditions

A new experiment by Elizabeth Swanner evaluating the reduction of iron in prehistoric oceans may reinterpret the…

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Three NASA Satellites Recreate Solar Eruption in 3-D

Scientists have developed a model that simulates how shocks following coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from…

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NASA's Webb Telescope to Make Splash in Search for Interstellar Water

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into these cosmic reservoirs to gain new insights into the origin and…

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MIT launches multimillion-dollar collaboration to develop fusion energy

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge will work with a private firm to develop technology for…

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BepiColombo gets green light for launch site

BepiColombo approaching Mercury BepiColombo gets green light for launch site Europe's first mission to Mercury will…

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Stelle ultracompatte con il vuoto quantistico

Assieme alla forza di gravità, la polarizzazione del vuoto quantistico potrebbe permettere alle stelle di esistere in…

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Update on S2, the star plunging past the Milky Way's black hole | EarthSky.org

One of the fascinating findings of modern astronomy is that large galaxies, including our home galaxy the Milky Way…

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8/3/2018

These massive, mysterious storms on Jupiter look totally surreal

The East Coast of the United States is reeling from successive punches of massive nor'easters. But to find some truly…

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Neutron Stars Discovered on Collision Course - Sky & Telescope

Got any plans in 46 million years? If not, you should keep an eye out for PSR J1946+2052 around that time - this…

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Così riuscimmo a preveder le stelle

Le prime pagine dei giornali di tutto il mondo hanno ripreso, la settimana scorsa, un articolo pubblicato su Nature sul…

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La conferma di Alfvén

Un nuovo studio, pubblicato su Nature Physics e guidato da ricercatori della Queen's University Belfast, conferma che…

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NASA Outlines New Lunar Science, Human Exploration Missions

NASA is planning a new Moon-focused exploration campaign that starts with a series of progressive commercial robotic…

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A peculiar galactic clash

Galaxies are not static islands of stars - they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the…

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7/3/2018

JHU Performs First Lab Simulation of Exoplanet Atmospheric Chemistry

March 7, 2018 CONTACT: Sukanya Charuchandra Office: 443-997-9009, or Tracey Reeves Office: 443-997-9903 / Cell…

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Unveiling the Depths of Jupiter's Winds - News, Features and Discoveries from the Weizmann…

Three papers published tomorrow in Nature answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first…

wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il

Earth is a Beaming Beacon in Kepler's Eyes

Capturing images of our home planet from the perspective of faraway spacecraft has become a tradition at NASA, ever…

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A new kind of star

A new kind of star comes up from a study by SISSA's postdoctoral researcher Raúl Carballo-Rubio. In a piece of research…

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Hubble trova la compagnia dell'anello

Vent'anni dopo, con strumenti migliorati, il telescopio spaziale Hubble è tornato a osservare il famoso disco di…

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Il risveglio della stella zombie

Annunciato da un lampo di raggi X, è tornato in vita il nucleo di una stella morta. A darle il soffio vitale è stata la…

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Topics - Amazing Universe Captured with the Subaru Telescope ~ "HSC Viewer" Released to the Public…

NAOJ developed the user-friendly HSC (Hyper Suprime-Cam) Viewer to display the HSC-SSP data. The total amount of data…

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Amazing Storms, Jet Streams on Jupiter - Sky & Telescope

NASA's Juno spacecraft has found breathtaking cyclones at Jupiter's poles and probed how deep the planet's jet…

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Mega cicloni sopra i poli di Giove

Grandi anche 6000 chilometri e con venti che superano i 300 chilometri orari. Ecco l'identikit dei giganteschi vortici…

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NASA Juno Findings - Jupiter's Jet-Streams Are Unearthly

Data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicate that the atmospheric winds of Jupiter run deep into its atmosphere and…

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Neuron creation in brain's memory centre stops after childhood

Every day, the human hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning and memory, creates hundreds of new nerve cells …

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A star is about to plunge head first toward a monster black hole. Astronomers are ready to watch.

Sometime over the next few months, a massive star is going to take a deep plunge near a gigantic black hole in our…

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ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery

New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create…

www.eso.org

6/3/2018

Photosynthesis originated a billion years earlier than we thought, study shows

Ancient microbes may have been producing oxygen through photosynthesis a billion years earlier than we thought, which…

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Physicists Find a Way to See the 'Grin' of Quantum Gravity | Quanta Magazine

In 1935, when both quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity were young, a little-known…

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US scientists plot return to the Moon's surface

When Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped off the Moon in December 1972, it marked the end of US researchers' access…

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Volcanologists warn world is unprepared for next major eruption

The world needs to do more to prepare for the next huge volcanic eruption, a team of leading scientists says. The…

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Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA's First Mission to Touch the Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission will launch in summer 2018 to travel closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it…

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HubbleSite: News - Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A

In this recent image, Hubble uncovers a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the…

hubblesite.org

The Case of the Martian Boulder Piles

This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the…

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‘Vintage’ telescope reveals inside of dead star

Using something almost like “X-ray vision” to see inside a star at the end of its life could show what will happen to…

medium.com

In A Quantum Universe, Even Mass Is Uncertain

In the quantum world of the unstable, even identical particles don’t have identical masses.

medium.com

Quantum equation describes galaxy mechanics

The long-term physical evolution of astrophysical discs can be described by a fundamental equation used in quantum…

cosmosmagazine.com

Schrödinger nello spazio

Una nuova sorprendente scoperta suggerisce che l'equazione di Schrödinger è straordinariamente utile nel descrivere…

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La firma dell'acqua: prima volta per il Tng

Con il suo specchio da appena 3,6 metri di diametro, il Telescopio nazionale Galileo dell'Inaf è riuscito là dove fino…

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What is a runaway star? | EarthSky.org

The sun and all of the Milky Way's stars are moving in orbit around the center of our galaxy. It's more or less…

earthsky.org

Today in science: Breakup of an asteroid | EarthSky.org

March 6, 2014. On this date, the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal Letters first published a study of the breakup of…

earthsky.org

5/3/2018

A star like the Sun has six gas giants orbiting it... with two in its habitable zone

Astronomers have discovered a pretty interesting multi-planetary system orbiting a nearby star. Each of the exoplanets…

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JILA Team Invents New Way to 'See' the Quantum World

JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in…

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127 million year old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian evolution

The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the…

www.manchester.ac.uk

Massive Astrophysical Objects Governed by Subatomic Equation | Caltech

Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up…

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New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life | Quanta Magazine

giant virus, tupanviruses, translation, proteins, protein synthesis, Chantal Abergel, Aix-Marseille University, Brazil…

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Comet Chury formed by a catastrophic collision - CNRS Web site - CNRS

Image of the final stage of a simulation, carried out by the authors, of a catastrophic collision between comets…

www2.cnrs.fr

NASA Team Outfits Orion for Abort Test with Lean Approach

With the arrival of the Orion crew module to be used in the Ascent Abort-2 test at Johnson Space Center in Houston, the…

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Donor star breathes life into zombie companion

ESA's Integral space observatory has witnessed a rare event: the moment that winds emitted by a swollen red giant star…

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Queen's scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the Sun

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic…

www.qub.ac.uk

A Possible Path to Forming Life's Building Blocks in Space

Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in…

newscenter.lbl.gov

World-first firing of air-breathing electric thruster

In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top…

www.esa.int

Reti 4G, il terreno di conquista è la Luna

Se i piani della società tedesca PTScientists dovessero concretizzarsi, dal 2019 potremmo avere sul nostro satellite…

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Dal Giappone la mappa della materia oscura

Pubblicata una mappa della dark matter da record: basata sul weak gravitational lensing, è la più ampia e più nitida…

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Why is Venus so bright? | EarthSky.org

Even though Jupiter is bright also (and up before dawn now, with the moon sweeping past it) and even though Mars will…

earthsky.org

MATISSE Instrument Sees First Light on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer - Most powerful…

The new MATISSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made its first…

www.eso.org

3/3/2018

A signal from the 1st stars | EarthSky.org

A signal caused by the very first stars to form in the universe has been picked up by a tiny but highly specialised…

earthsky.org

2/3/2018

Improved Hubble data provide fresh evidence for new physics in the universe

Here's the good news: Astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the rate at which the universe is…

hub.jhu.edu

James Webb Space Telescope: Additional Delays "Likely" - Sky & Telescope

A non-partisan government office has issued a report warning of additional delays for the James Webb Space Telescope…

www.skyandtelescope.com

Bubbles of life from the past

Take a good look at these photos: They show you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny…

www.sdu.dk

New origin story for moon in Harvard-led research

Simon Lock wants to change the way you think about the moon. A graduate student in Harvard's Department of Earth and…

news.harvard.edu

James Webb Space Telescope: Additional Delays "Likely" - Sky & Telescope

A non-partisan government office has issued a report warning of additional delays for the James Webb Space Telescope…

www.skyandtelescope.com

Lenti pulite per guardare le supernove

Le supernove di tipo Ia sono uno strumento impareggiabile per risolvere l'enigma dell'universo accelerato. Se viste…

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Obliquità orbitali misurate al Tng

Cinque esopianeti nel mirino dello spettrografo ad alta risoluzione Harps-N, montato al Telescopio nazionale Galileo…

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Hayabusa avvista Ryugu

Terra, terra! Il profilo dell'agognata meta si profila all'orizzonte del vascello spaziale giapponese Hayabusa-2. Per…

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Hubble scopre l'acqua sul bollente Wasp-39b

Con una precisione mai raggiunta prima, un gruppo di scienziati ha trovato abbondanti tracce di acqua nell'atmosfera di…

www.media.inaf.it

1/3/2018

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Press Release - Unprecedentedly Wide and Sharp Dark Matter Map - Subaru Telescope

A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of…

www.subarutelescope.org

Hayabusa2 has detected Ryugu! | Topics | JAXA Hayabuas2 project

On February 26, 2018, Hayabusa2 saw its destination -asteroid Ryugu- for the first time! The photographs were captured…

www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp

New physics needed to explain the universe, study finds

Astronomers have made the most precise measurements to date of the expansion rate of the universe.

cosmosmagazine.com

Venus may once have been habitable. Now it can tell us if other worlds might be as well.

In his 1954 novel Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus , science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined seas filled with…

www.popsci.com

Can Strongly Lensed Supernovae Resolve Cosmic Controversy?

In 1929 Edwin Hubble surprised many people - including Albert Einstein - when he showed that the universe is expanding…

newscenter.lbl.gov

Mars Express views moons set against Saturn's rings

Loading... Mars Express views moons set against Saturn's rings New images and video from ESA's Mars Express show Phobos…

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: ULX in M51 :: March 1, 2018

The scientists analyzed archival X-ray data taken by Chandra and discovered an unusual dip in the ULX's X-ray spectrum…

chandra.si.edu

Could a Giant Impact Have Vaporized Earth to Create the Moon? - Sky & Telescope

In a new twist on the giant impact theory, a new idea posits that the Moon might have formed from the vaporized remains…

www.skyandtelescope.com

Il metano di Encelado prodotto da un microbo? - Le Scienze

Nuovi esperimenti di laboratorio suggeriscono che un particolare microrganismo potrebbe essere la fonte del metano…

www.lescienze.it

NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Scientists used NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find water "fingerprints" in the atmosphere of a hot…

www.jpl.nasa.gov

Hubble observes exoplanet atmosphere in more detail than ever before

An international team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of the hot…

www.spacetelescope.org

Possible interaction between baryons and dark-matter particles revealed by the first stars

As the first stars heated hydrogen in the early Universe, the 21-cm hyperfine line-an astronomical standard that…

www.nature.com

Bok to the Future: Sounding the Depths of a Dying Star

There are times when having the latest and greatest in technology is not the only thing that counts, even in a field…

uanews.arizona.edu