maggio 2018

AstroNews 5/2018

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

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25 min readMay 4, 2018

31/5/2018

Multiple metals - and possible signs of water - found in unique exoplanet

The team, from the University of Cambridge and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain used the Gran…

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NASA Narrows Scope for Proposed Astrophysics Missions

NASA has added a cost cap of $3-$5 billion.

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Cosmic collision lights up the darkness

Though it resembles a peaceful rose swirling in the darkness of the cosmos, NGC 3256 is actually the site of a violent…

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Spinning rugby balls: The rotation of the most massive galaxies - English

By targeting the most massive galaxies in our universe, astronomers have studied how their stars move. The results are…

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Gravitational Wave Event Likely Signaled Creation of a Black Hole

The spectacular merger of two neutron stars that generated gravitational waves announced last fall likely did something…

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Dawn Mission: New Orbit, New Opportunities

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is maneuvering to its lowest-ever orbit for a close-up examination of the inner solar system's…

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: GW170817 :: May 31, 2018

Chandra observed GW170817 multiple times. An observation two to three days after the event failed to detect a source…

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Come la Terra trasforma il vento solare in brezza

Grazie ai dati della missione Nasa Mms è stata ottenuta la prima osservazione diretta del processo di riscaldamento…

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Onde gravitazionali, cala il sipario sulla luce X

Un team di ricercatori guidato da Paolo D'Avanzo dell'Inaf ha osservato la diminuzione del flusso di raggi X associato…

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Dune nel cuore di Plutone

Un nuovo studio pubblicato su Science suggerisce che le dune scoperte su Plutone si siano formate da grani di metano…

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Scientists reveal the secrets behind Pluto's dunes

Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released…

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Un quarto d'ora da neutrone

Calcolata con una precisione senza precedenti, utilizzando la cromodinamica quantistica su reticolo, la costante di…

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30/5/2018

NASA Dives Deep into the Search for Life

Off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island and more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs…

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Does Some Dark Matter Carry an Electric Charge?

Astronomers have proposed a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of the matter in the Universe. They…

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Life Recovered Rapidly at Impact Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid

AUSTIN, Texas - About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the…

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Distant Moons May Harbor Life

We've all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking on other moons? In a paper…

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A Crowded Neighbourhood

Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large…

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Quando un buco nero sbrana una stella

Ai buchi neri supermassicci piace il sapore dell'idrogeno e dell'elio. Ma cosa accade esattamente quando azzannano una…

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Scientists just discovered 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff

It's no secret dinosaurs possessed their own fair share of dirty habits-most bodies can get pretty gross, no matter the…

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Science Mission Directorate

If you've ever heard of the phrase two sides of the same coin, you know it means two things that at first appear to be…

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29/5/2018

Astronomers Spot a Distant and Lonely Neutron Star

Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of the Milky Way galaxy, using…

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XENON1T Experimental Data Establishes Most Stringent Limit on Dark Matter

Experimental results from the XENON1T dark matter detector limit the effective size of dark matter particles to…

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Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

29 May 2018 Dr. Jane Lixin Dai, theoretical astrophysicist and assistant professor and Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, both…

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New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star

A star that wanders too close to the supermassive black hole in the center of its galaxy will be torn apart by the…

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Materia oscura, i nuovi dati di Xenon1T

È il più grande rivelatore per la ricerca di materia oscura, e presenta il più basso fondo mai ottenuto.

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28/5/2018

Known Close Stellar Encounters Surge in Number - Sky & Telescope

Astronomers are on a hunt to find stellar hit-and-runs - stars that sideswipe our solar system, potentially hurling…

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Il fascino discreto dei sopravvissuti

Dai dati raccolti dal rivelatore Lhcb al Large Hadron Collider, sembra che le particelle conosciute come mesoni charm e…

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25/5/2018

'Transient machine' MeerLICHT inaugurated in South Africa

By combining the data from an optical and a radio telescope, astronomers expect to be able to interpret changes or…

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Mars rocks may harbour signs of life

Iron-rich rocks near ancient lake sites on Mars could hold vital clues that show life once existed there, research…

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Continental growth spurt 2.4B years ago brought snow, oxygen

Earth's first snow may have fallen after a lot of land rose swiftly from the sea and set off dramatic changes on Earth…

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How modern-day dinosaurs survived the apocalypse

When an asteroid pummeled the earth 66 million years ago, forests burned, molten rock rained over the planet, tsunamis…

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Disentangling the History of the Magellanic Clouds - Sky & Telescope

The Magellanic Clouds - two nearby dwarf galaxies easily visible to the naked eye in the southern hemisphere - are key…

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MeerLicht, l'occhio della "mangusta"

TELESCOPIO OTTICO COMPLETA MEERKAT E SKA Questo specchio fungerà da "occhio" per il network di radio antenne MeerKat…

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Apex guarda nel cuore dell'oscurità

L'aggiunta di Apex all'Event Horizon Telescope rivela nuovi dettagli nella struttura asimmetrica e non puntiforme della…

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Verso Ska: ingegneri nel deserto australiano

Caldo, insetti e ore interminabili di lavoro: questo e molto altro è lavorare nell'Outback in Australia Occidentale…

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24/5/2018

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the Universitat Politècnica de…

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When the dinosaurs died, so did forests -- and tree-dwelling birds

Sixty-six million years ago, the world burned. An asteroid crashed to Earth with a force one million times larger than…

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APEX takes a glimpse into the heart of darkness

"The participation of the APEX telescope almost doubles the length of the longest baselines in comparison to earlier…

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Did the Chicxulub Asteroid Cause Earth's Thermometer to Spike?

The Chicxulub impact may have driven an abrupt global temperature increase that lasted for 100,000 years. | Donald E…

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Scientists Shrink Chemistry Lab to Seek Evidence of Life on Mars

An international team of scientists has created a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill beneath the Martian…

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Take a Virtual Trip to a Strange New World with NASA

Take a virtual trip to the imagined surfaces of planets beyond our solar system with NASA's interactive Exoplanet…

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Does a black hole ever die?

Astronomer Misty Bentz would like you to know that black holes don't suck. "They're not cosmic vacuum cleaners going…

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A Magnifying Glass for a Pulsar - Sky & Telescope

Astronomers have discovered a pulsar that comes with its own magnifying glass - courtesy of its brown dwarf companion…

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Rosetta svela l'alba dei getti

L'atmosfera della cometa 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko è tutt'altro che omogenea. Oltre agli improvvisi scoppi di gas e…

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Scavando a braccio: Curiosity torna a trapanare

Il rover della Nasa ha perforato con successo un buco profondo circa cinque centimetri sul suolo marziano e raccolto un…

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23/5/2018

Lightening up dark galaxies

Also, they acquired the full spectral information for each of the dark-galaxy candidates. Deep observations - 10 hours…

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The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything

The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than a quarter…

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Kepler Begins 18th Observing Campaign with a Focus on Star Clusters

Kepler Begins 18th Observing Campaign with a Focus On Star Clusters

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IFJ PAN Press Office

In the first moments after the Big Bang, the Universe was filled with equal amounts of particles and antiparticles…

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Land rising above the sea 2.4 billion years ago changed planet Earth

EUGENE, Ore. -- May 23, 2018 -- Chemical signatures in shale, the Earth's most common sedimentary rock, point to a…

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La pulsar sotto la lente

Si trova in un sistema binario a 6500 anni luce da noi. La risoluzione record con la quale è stata osservata è dovuta…

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SwRI scientists introduce cosmochemical model for Pluto formation

SwRI scientists develop a new theory about how Pluto may have formed at the edge of our solar system. Researchers…

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Astronomers find six dark galaxy candidates -- galaxies with few stars

May 23 (UPI) -- Scientists have found six new dark galaxy candidates -- galaxies with few or no stars. As one can…

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InSight Steers Toward Mars

The spacecraft has completed its first trajectory correction maneuver.

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First light for the storm hunter

First light for the storm hunter As the International Space Station flew over the Indonesian coast of Sumatra on an…

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Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Demonstrates Low-Cost, High Thrust Space Engine

Source: Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. ISE-100 Hot-Fire Test at Aerojet Rocketdyne's Redmond facility Hot-fire test of…

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Drilling Success: Curiosity is Collecting Mars Rocks

Engineers will now test delivering samples to instruments inside NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.

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[Research] Space-like gravity weakens biochemical signals in muscle formation

Skeletal myoblast cells in rats (CREDIT: Yuge Lab) Astronauts go through many physiological changes during their time…

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Rosetta unravels formation of sunrise jets

Rosetta is a space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), which reached its destination, comet…

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SwRI scientists introduce cosmochemical model for Pluto formation

SwRI scientists develop a new theory about how Pluto may have formed at the edge of our solar system. Researchers…

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Astronomers scrutinize Black Widow pulsar | EarthSky.org

Astronomers in Toronto said on May 23, 2018, that they've performed: ... one of the highest resolution observations in…

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Astronomers Observe Unprecedented Detail In Pulsar 6500 Light-Years From Earth - Dunlap Institute

TORONTO] A team of astronomers has performed one of the highest resolution observations in astronomical history by…

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Pulsars seen through a new lens

Much of what we know about the Universe comes from using telescopes to collect and study the electromagnetic waves…

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Space Station Panic

illustration only Space station astronauts are "high-risk-taking" individuals. They volunteer to fly from the Earth to…

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22/5/2018

OPERA presents its final results on neutrino oscillations

The OPERA experiment, located at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics…

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Discovery of the first body in the Solar System with an extrasolar origin - CNRS Web site - CNRS

22 May 2018 Discovery of the first body in the Solar System with an extrasolar origin

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China launches relay satellite to explore Moon's far side _ Qiushi Journal

XICHANG, Sichuan Province, May 21 (Xinhua) -- China launched a relay satellite early Monday to set up a communication…

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Sorgente X scoperta da sei liceali di Saronno

L'identificazione della sorgente variabile di raggi X è stata realizzata grazie a sei studenti del Liceo scientifico…

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Una vita da neutrino, dal Cern al Gran Sasso

L'esperimento Opera, che dal 2008 al 2012 ha studiato il fascio di neutrini dal Cern ai Laboratori Infn del Gran Sasso…

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La Cina è partita per la Luna

Lanciato ieri il satellite cinese per le comunicazioni Queqiao, con a bordo lo strumento olandese Ncle, diretto verso…

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Un milione di nomi in viaggio verso il Sole

La sonda della Nasa porterà attorno alla stella 1.137.202 nomi e una placca dedicata a Eugene Parker, l'astrofisico ed…

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Catturato asteroide interstellare

Un nuovo studio ha scoperto il primo "immigrato" trasferitosi permanentemente nel nostro Sistema solare. Si trova…

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The elusive Planet Nine might be responsible for this asteroid's bizarre orbit

For a few years now, the astronomy world has been hard at work searching for a ninth planet of the solar system (no…

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21/5/2018

New evidence for existence of Planet Nine

A large international team of researchers has found what they are describing as more evidence of the existence of…

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Radio Experiment Launches With China's Moon Orbiter - Sky & Telescope

A Long March-4C rocket roared to life last night, lighting up the night skies over China and opening up the next…

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Stellar Disks Reveal How Planets Get Made | Quanta Magazine

"We're at the very hairy edge of the technology," said Katherine Follette, an astronomer at Amherst College. "In the…

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Deep Space Radiation Treatment Reboots Brain's Immune System

Planning a trip to Mars? You'll want to remember your anti-radiation pills. NASA and private space companies like…

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Extrasolar asteroid has been orbiting the Sun for 4.5 billion years

The object is revolving around the Sun in the vicinity of Jupiter but in the opposite direction from most other…

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NASA Sends New Research on Orbital ATK Mission to Space Station

A Cygnus cargo vehicle lifted off this morning for the International Space Station. JPL is involved with four of the…

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Il Carma di Orione

Ogni cosa è interconnessa in un intreccio di legami causa-effetto, ma il problema è capire come.

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First interstellar immigrant discovered in the Solar System

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

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China satellite heralds first mission to dark side of Moon

China launched on Monday a relay satellite that will allow a rover to communicate with the Earth from the far side of…

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19/5/2018

Jupiter: A New Perspective

This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby…

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18/5/2018

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

"While the large hourglass nebula expands in a regular way, the jet shows an extremely complex behaviour" says Tiina…

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L'RNA e l'origine della vita - Le Scienze

Creato per la prima volta un ribozima - un filamento di RNA che funziona come un enzima - capace di autoreplicarsi…

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Inside every proton, 10 neutron stars

World-first measurement of quark force invites revolution in particle physics. Andrew Masterson reports.

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NASA's New Planet Hunter Snaps Initial Test Image, Swings by Moon

After launching April 18, TESS has completed its lunar flyby to put it on track for its final science orbit, and has…

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Hubble gioca a Legus con le stelle

Resa disponibile quella che a oggi è la più accurata e completa visione nell'ultravioletto di galassie con formazione…

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You can't walk on these cloud streets | EarthSky.org

Cloud streets are long rows of cumulus clouds that are oriented parallel to the direction of the wind. They're formed…

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17/5/2018

Major shift in marine life occurred 33 million years later

A new study of marine fossils from Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand and South America reveals that one of the…

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Emissions of ozone-destroying chemical controlled by Montreal Protocol rising again, NOAA data…

Emissions of one of the chemicals most responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole are on the rise, despite an…

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Study confirms link between gamma rays, lightning strikes

May 17 (UPI) -- A new survey of downward terrestrial gamma ray flashes suggests the rare electromagnetic phenomena is…

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Amateur astronomer's data helps scientists discover a new exoplanet

Scientists of the international project 'Kourovka Planet Search,' organized at Kourovka Astronomical Observatory of…

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Study co-authored by UCLA scientists shows evidence of water vapor plumes on one of Jupiter's moons

NASA/JPL-Caltech and Xianzhe Jia/University of Michigan Jupiter (left) and its moon Europa. UCLA Professor Emerita…

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Aims to Get Its Rhythm Back

Rover engineers at JPL will try to restore percussive drilling on Mars this week, part of a larger series of tests that…

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Il destino d'un gioviano? È scritto nelle stelle

CALDO O FREDDO? DUE DIVERSI MECCANISMI Le stelle con gioviani caldi presentano una metallicità maggiore di quelle con…

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Emissione laser dalla Nebulosa Formica

DALLA MORTE DI UNA STELLA Di recente un team internazionale di astronomi ha scoperto un'insolita emissione laser che…

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Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes | Quanta Magazine

Nearly 40 years after it was proposed, mathematicians have settled one of the most profound questions in the study of…

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Le prime stelle 250 milioni di anni dopo il big bang - Le Scienze

Le osservazioni della galassia lontana MACS1149-JD1 hanno rivelato indizi di formazione stellare a soli 250 milioni di…

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La strana orbita di un nuovo mondo è una conferma del Pianeta Nove? - Le Scienze

Un nuovo studio ha svelato l'esistenza di 2015 BP519, un pianeta nano che ruota intorno al Sole con un'orbita molto…

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Cool Science on the International Space Station

NASA researchers are creating a spot colder than the vacuum of space inside the International Space Station. In 2018, a…

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Astronomers Release Most Complete UV Survey of Nearby Galaxies

An international team of astronomers is releasing the most comprehensive, high-resolution ultraviolet-light survey of…

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Hubble shows the local Universe in ultraviolet

Using the unparalleled sharpness and ultraviolet observational capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an…

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16/5/2018

A space ant fires its lasers

A rare phenomenon connected to the death of a star has been discovered in observations made by ESA's Herschel space…

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Cosmic ravioli and spaetzle

The small inner moons of Saturn look like giant ravioli and spaetzle. Their spectacular shape has been revealed by the…

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Quarks Feel the Pressure in the Proton

May 16, 2018 The first measurement of a subatomic particle's mechanical property reveals the distribution of pressure…

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A laser from a space ant

An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double…

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A new map for a birthplace of stars

A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of the Orion A molecular cloud, a vast seedbed of…

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Two Missions Will Go Closer to Our Sun Than Ever Before

NASA's Parker Solar Probe and ESA's Solar Orbiter will take us closer to the Sun than we've ever been before. If Earth…

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Early Star Formation Presents New Cosmic Mystery - Sky & Telescope

New observations suggest that stars began forming just 250 million years after the Big Bang - a record-breaker that…

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Stars formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang

Stars in a galaxy 13.28 billion light years away formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang, finds a team of…

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Ecco l'ossigeno più antico dell'universo

Nella lontanissima galassia Macs1149-Jd1, la più distante mai vista dagli strumenti dell'Eso, è stata individuata la…

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ALMA Finds Most-Distant Oxygen in the Universe - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Not long after the , the first generations of stars began altering the chemical make-up of primitive galaxies, slowly…

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Mysterious rise in banned ozone-destroying chemical shocks scientists

A sharp and mysterious rise in emissions of a key ozone-destroying chemical has been detected by scientists, despite…

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What is a coronal mass ejection? | EarthSky.org

Every so often, the sun burps, with the power of 20 million nuclear bombs. These hiccups are known as coronal mass…

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15/5/2018

IU physicists measure neutrons with unprecedented precision

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study led in part by physicists at the Indiana University Center for the Exploration of Energy…

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Space cloud discovery

Case Western Reserve astronomers find vast ionized hydrogen cloud in 'Whirlpool Galaxy' using ultra-sensitive Arizona…

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This croco-dolphin has it all

Most people associate the Jurassic Period with depictions of feathered monsters gallivanting across the surface of…

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Chinese rewrite record, live 370 days in self-contained moon lab - Xinhua | English.news.cn

"The test has important implications for human endeavors to achieve long-term stays outside the Earth. The experience…

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How primordial life on Earth might have replicated itself - News - Medical Research Council

Back to listing 15 May 2018 Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the…

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Dorset, UK, used as model for finding life traces on Mars | Imperial News | Imperial College London

By studying streams on the UK coast, experts have calculated how much organic matter we might find on Mars, and where…

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Telescope's 'bionic ear' hears more of the Universe

New technology installed on CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope today will let astronomers 'hear' a wider range of radio…

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NASA just added a tiny autonomous helicopter to its next Mars mission

Only 23 of humanity's 54 missions to Mars have been successful. A whopping 30 either never made it to Mars or failed…

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Helicopter to Hitch a Ride with Mars 2020 Rover - Sky & Telescope

A small helicopter will soon be making its way to Martian skies. NASA recently announced that a small autonomous…

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Dentro il cervello di Homo naledi - Le Scienze

Questa specie umana scoperta di recente e vissuta fra 236.000 e 335.000 anni fa in Sudafrica aveva una struttura…

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A New World's Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine | Quanta Magazine

In early 2016, two planetary scientists declared that a ghost planet is hiding in the depths of the solar system, well…

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Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole known in space

Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe, describing it as a monster that…

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A Pale Blue Dot, As Seen by a CubeSat

One of NASA's MarCO CubeSats has taken its first image.

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Lisa cacciatrice di binarie

Uno studio pubblicato su Physical Review Letters ha previsto il numero di sistemi binari osservabili con Lisa…

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Confermati i pennacchi di vapore su Europa

Intravisti da Hubble per la prima volta nel 2012, un nuovo esame dei dati raccolti più di vent'anni fa dal magnetometro…

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Il buco nero più vorace dell'universo

Trovato a 12 miliardi di anni luce dalla Terra un quasar che divora ogni due giorni una massa equivalente a quella del…

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Un'orbita di 21 anni per il "piccolo" Gl 15 A c

Sebbene la sua massa stimata sia di tutto rispetto, 36 volte maggiore di quella della Terra, Gl 15 A c è ad oggi il più…

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Today's Asteroid Flyby Will Miss Earth, But The Threat Is Real

Share to email Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Share to google Opinions expressed by Forbes…

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2018/05/15 New Arrival Information

Hayabusa2 is currently operating its ion engines as the spacecraft approaches asteroid Ryugu. But on May 11, the ion…

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14/5/2018

MSU scientists' discovery in Yellowstone 'extremely relevant' to origin of life

Professor William Inskeep and his team of researchers published their findings May 14 in the scientific journal Nature…

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Lead pollution in Greenland ice shows rise and fall of ancient European civilizations

Reno, NV (May 14, 2018): To learn about the rise and fall of ancient European civilizations, researchers sometimes find…

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Study shows ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 years

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A ribbon of ice more than 600 kilometers long that drains about 12 percent of the gigantic Greenland…

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Frequency-stable laser systems for space - Press | Ferdinand-Braun-Institut

For the first time a frequency reference based on molecular iodine was successfully demonstrated in space! What sounds…

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Orbital variations can trigger 'snowball' states in habitable zones around sunlike stars

News releases | Research | Science | UW and the community Aspects of an otherwise Earthlike planet's tilt and orbital…

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NASA's Galileo Measures Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa - Sky & Telescope

Ocean worlds abound in the outer solar system and, it seems, so do plumes. A new analysis of decades-old data from…

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Il Big Bell Test smentisce il realismo locale - Le Scienze

La violazione nel mondo quantistico di un principio tanto caro ad Albert Einstein è stata confermata da un esperimento…

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An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire

A year by year economic history of the Roman Empire might seem as impossible to reconstruct as the lost 107 books of…

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Fra due anni arriverà un elicottero su Marte

Il piccolo aerogiro avrà un'autonomia di 30 giorni e arriverà a volare fino a 90 secondi consecutivi.

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Vivere nell'universo accanto

A differenza di quanto suggerisce la teoria del multiverso, non è detto che il nostro sia uno fra i rari universi nei…

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Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes

Scientists re-examining data from an old mission bring new insights to the tantalizing question of whether Jupiter's…

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Geoscientists Suggest 'Snowball Earth' Resulted from Plate Tectonics

Text size: research About 700 million years ago, the Earth experienced unusual episodes of global cooling that…

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Could a Multiverse be hospitable to life? - Durham University

Now new research led by Durham University, UK, and Australia's University of Sydney, Western Sydney University and the…

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11/5/2018

Dozens of binaries from Milky Way's globular clusters could be detectable by LISA - Northwestern…

In the Milky Way, 150 globular clusters have been observed so far. The Northwestern research team predicts one out of…

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NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars to get a bird's-eye view of the planet

When NASA launches its next rover to Mars, the vehicle will have a small helicopter along for the ride. NASA announced…

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Sulle tracce dei respiri alieni

Uno studio pubblicato su ApJ Letters riporta come la ricerca di impronte digitali biologiche presenti nelle atmosfere…

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Prima immagine 3D di una nube interstellare

Due ricercatori hanno utilizzato i dati raccolti con Herschel determinando la forma reale di questa nube scura. Le…

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Un frullatore stellare

ORBITANO L'UNA SULL'ALTRA IN SOLI 38 MINUTI Nuovo record di velocità per l'orbita di un sistema binario. J17062-6143…

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What's a safe distance between us and a supernova? | EarthSky.org

A supernova is a star explosion - destructive on a scale almost beyond human imagining. If our sun exploded as a…

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What will happen when our sun dies? | EarthSky.org

What does death mean, for the sun? It means our sun will run out of fuel in its interior. It'll cease the internal…

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10/5/2018

"New views of Jupiter" showcases swirling clouds on giant planet

Members of NASA's Juno mission team, some of the world's leading observers of Jupiter, and citizen scientists from…

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The BIG Bell Test in Nature - NEWS - ICFO

The Big Bell Test ICFOnians and the Big Bell Test Global physics experiment challenges Einstein with the help of…

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Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earth's climate half a billion years ago

Study suggests early animals diversified in a greenhouse world, with a climate similar to that in which the dinosaurs…

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This week in science history: The woman who found hydrogen in the stars is born

Cecilia Payne, born on May 10, 1900, in Wendover, England, began her scientific career in 1919 with a scholarship to…

cosmosmagazine.com

Debutto spaziale per il radiotelescopio sardo

Da ieri, mercoledì 9 maggio 2018, il Sardinia Radio Telescope potrà essere ufficialmente utilizzato anche in modalità…

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9/5/2018

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

In broad terms we can think of galaxies like the Milky Way as being composed of a rotating disc, which includes spiral…

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What Is Spacetime?

People have always taken space for granted. It is just emptiness, after all-a backdrop to everything else. Time…

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Laser-powered travel to nearby stars a step closer

A key piece of technology for interstellar travel may be within our reach, according to US scientists, but a plan to…

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Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images

Less than two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite has delivered its first images of…

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Multi-use Variable-g Platform Arrives at International Space Station

Delivered to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX CRS-14, the Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP) is a new…

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Atmospheric Seasons Could Signal Alien Life

UCR researchers are using seasonal changes in the Earth's atmosphere to guide their search for life outside the solar…

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La domatrice di campi magnetici

Analizzando i dati della missione MMS della Nasa, gli scienziati hanno scoperto un modo sorprendente con il quale…

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NASA Spacecraft Discovers New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space

Explorations in Earth's space environment by NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft have discovered a surprising…

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Asteroide al carbonio in esilio

Questo curioso oggetto eremita (il primo asteroide ricco di carbonio nella fascia di Kuiper) si è probabilmente formato…

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Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System - ESO telescopes find first confirmed…

An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The…

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8/5/2018

Dutch astronomers photograph possible toddler planet by chance

A group of astronomers was actually examining the dust disc around the young double star CS Cha, when they saw a small…

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Lasers in Space: Earth Mission Tests New Technology

The upcoming GRACE-FO mission will test a laser measurement system that could possibly detect changes in the distance…

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Un ciclo astronomico per il clima della Terra - Le Scienze

Ogni 405.000 anni, l'interazione gravitazionale tra Giove e Venere influenza la forma dell'orbita terrestre e di…

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Universe's coolest lab set to open up quantum world

Quantum physicists are about to get their own playground in space. NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory, scheduled to launch to…

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Astronomers find an exoplanet atmosphere free of clouds

Scientists have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds, marking a pivotal breakthrough in the quest…

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Breakthrough Listen begins survey of the plane of the Milky Way at Parkes

Breakthrough Listen - the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe - announced today that a survey…

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Clima terrestre segnato da Venere e Giove

Se i cicli climatici sono direttamente correlati all'orbita descritta dalla Terra attorno al Sole, cosa succede se…

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Turbini giganti sul Sole

Rilevate in modo inequivocabile gigantesche onde di Rossby sulla superficie della nostra stella. Onde le cui dimensioni…

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We go between sun and Jupiter tonight | EarthSky.org

Jupiter rises when the sun sets. It's ascending in the east in evening twilight. Turn around and look for Venus in the…

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7/5/2018

Una soluzione radicalmente prudente al più grande mistero della cosmologia - Le Scienze

Due metodi per misurare il tasso di espansione dell'universo portano a risultati in conflitto tra loro. Molti…

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New Research Suggests that Dawn of Plate Tectonics Could Have Turned Earth into Snowball

A research duo from The University of Texas at Austin and UT Dallas have put forward a hypothesis that links the dawn…

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What will happen when our sun dies?

Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately five billion years, but they weren't sure what would happen…

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Giant swirls on the Sun

A team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the University of Göttingen…

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NASA's First Deep-Space CubeSats Say: Polo

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2018 - NASA has received radio signals indicating that the first-ever CubeSats headed to deep…

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Il più grande catalogo stellare

Il database reso pubblico il 25 aprile dal team del telescopio spaziale Gaia dell'Esa contiene posizione e flusso di…

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Wasp-96b, un pianeta "salato" dal cielo terso

NIENTE NUBI E ABBONDANZA DI SODIO Studiato con il metodo del transito, questo pianeta extrasolare sembra essere…

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Quando il Sole muore

Un gruppo internazionale di astronomi ha sviluppato un nuovo modello di evoluzione stellare che rende molto più facile…

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Theseus, Spica ed EnVision: ecco la terna Esa

Una survey ad alta energia dell'universo primordiale, un osservatorio a infrarossi per studiare la formazione di…

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ESA selects three new mission concepts for study

A high-energy survey of the early Universe, an infrared observatory to study the formation of stars, planets and…

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When the sun dies it will dramatically turn into a bright dust ring for 10,000 years

Astronomers have long hypothesized what will happen once time inevitably snuffs out the sun. For months, a team of…

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What would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared?

What would happen to Earth, and us, if the moon promptly disappeared without notice? Would we survive it? Sadly…

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6/5/2018

Earth's Orbital Changes Have Influenced Climate, Life Forms For at Least 215 Million Years

Every 405,000 years, gravitational tugs from Jupiter and Venus slightly elongate Earth's orbit, an amazingly consistent…

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5/5/2018

One scientist's 30-year quest to get under Mars' skin

AFP/File / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN Philippe Lognonne has waited three decades to hear the heartbeat of Mars. With a little…

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4/5/2018

MSU-based specialists in mechanics investigated the behavior of vacuum oil in space

A research team from the Research Institute of Mechanics, MSU together with a colleague from the Center of New Space…

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Ediacara Biota flourished in bacterially rich marine habitats

Some of the earliest animals on Earth were soft-bodied ocean-dwellers that ranged from a few inches to several feet and…

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OU Study Explains Why Mars Growth Stunted

"This study offers a simple and more elegant solution for why Mars is small, barren and uninhabitable," said Matthew S…

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NASA Webb Observatory Spacecraft Element Environmental Testing Update

The spacecraft element of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently completed its first two major launch environmental…

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We could move to another planet with a spaceship like this

Proxima b, our nearest neighboring exoplanet, is almost 25 trillion miles away. Even in one of our fastest spaceships…

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Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper explores the mysteries of the multiverse-but it's not a…

Stephen Hawking's death in March incited us all take a moment and think about the famed physicist's impact on the…

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Flares in the universe can now be studied on earth

"Scientists have been trying to bring these space phenomena down to earth for a decade. With our new method we can…

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3/5/2018

Burst of Newborn Stars in Young Star Cluster Puzzles Astronomers

Since the limited amount of gas survived from the first bulk star forming process will be quickly expelled within…

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Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope

A unique high-speed camera, designed to capture the fleeting effects of gamma rays crashing into the Earth's…

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ESA Science & Technology: #11: Putting things together: the CHEOPS science instrument arrives in…

Members of the CHEOPS consortium could be proud of their achievement as the science instrument of the upcoming…

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Why Does the Corona Sizzle at 1 Million °F? NJIT's Gregory Fleishman is Unearthing Clues

The Sun's corona, invisible to the human eye except when it appears briefly as a fiery halo of plasma during a solar…

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X-ray Navigation Considered for Possible CubeSat Mission

A team led by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory plans to include the technology on a proposed CubeSat mission…

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NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Leaves Scientific 'Treasure Trove'

NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite has fallen back to Earth. From 1996 to 2012, RXTE provided…

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Surviving the Inferno of Entry, Descent and Landing

Anticipation is building as preparations are well underway for the launch of NASA's next Mars mission, InSight. But…

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NASA Expands Plans for Moon Exploration

Since the president unveiled a new policy in December calling for NASA to develop an innovative and sustainable program…

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Il batterio "marziano" di Laguna Caliente

È un microrganismo del genere Acidiphilium e vive in un lago vulcanico della Costa Rica, un habitat infernale come lo…

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Pioggia nel passato di Marte

Sicuramente ora le temperature sono glaciali, ma nella lunga storia del Pianeta rosso la situazione deve essere stata…

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Il percorso dell'embrione da cellula a organismo completo - Le Scienze

Ricostruito per la prima volta il percorso di sviluppo dell'embrione che porta da una singola cellula uovo fecondata a…

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Mineral Found in Lunar Meteorite Hints at Hidden Moon Water

A mineral that requires the presence of water to form has been discovered in a lunar meteorite, a new study reports…

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2/5/2018

Chandra :: Photo Album :: NGC 6231 :: May 02, 2018

Chandra studies of this and other young star clusters, have allowed astronomers to build up a sample from which cluster…

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Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal

Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time crystal - a form of matter that "ticks" when exposed to an…

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Greenland telescope opens new era of arctic astronomy

illustration only To study the most extreme objects in the Universe, astronomers sometimes have to go to some extreme…

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Do Big Black Holes Wander the Galaxy? - Sky & Telescope

A gigantic black hole sits at the dead center of the Milky Way. The same goes for most large galaxies in the universe…

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Pubblicato l'ultimo articolo di Stephen Hawking

Il multiverso? "Multi" sì, ma né frattale né infinito.

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GSA News Release 18-15

Mercury Rising: New evidence that volcanism triggered the late Devonian extinction

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La prima volta dell'elio

Uno studio uscito oggi su Nature riporta per la prima volta l'individuazione di elio nell'atmosfera di un esopianeta…

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Research news - Helium detected in Exoplanet atmosphere for the first time - University of Exeter

The exoplanet WASP-107b is a gas giant, orbiting a highly active K-type main sequence star. The star is about 200…

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Demonstration Proves Nuclear Fission Can Provide Exploration Power

NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated a…

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Taming the multiverse: Stephen Hawking's final theory about the big bang

The theory, which was submitted for publication before Hawking's death earlier this year, is based on string theory and…

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Recent work challenges view of early Mars, picturing a warm desert with occasional rain

The climate of early Mars is a subject of debate. A recent study suggests that the early Martian surface may not have…

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Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on Mars

Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake that may rank as one of the harshest…

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Why plants are so sensitive to gravity : The lowdown - CNRS Web site - CNRS

Comparison between statolith "avalanche" after inclination of cell (above) and biomimetic system consisting of…

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Science Mission Directorate

When NASA's Juno spacecraft recently flew over the poles of Jupiter, researchers were astonished, as if they had never…

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Yes, Earth's magnetic poles can flip. But they probably won't anytime soon.

Earth is kind of overdue to see its magnetic field pull a 180 and reverse on itself. But according to a new study, the…

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Astronomers spot helium on exoplanet for first time

A big, puffy planet orbiting a small, bright star in the constellation Virgo is leaking helium into space. It's the…

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HubbleSite: News - Hubble Detects Helium in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet for the First Time

There may be no shortage of balloon-filled birthday parties or people with silly high-pitched voices on the planet…

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Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected helium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet…

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1/5/2018

A Radically Conservative Solution for Cosmology's Biggest Mystery

Cosmologists have wielded every tool at their disposal to measure exactly how fast the universe is expanding, a rate…

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'Milky Way Blues'

Scientists often transform astronomy data in a way that allows for interpretation with visual plots such as color-coded…

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NASA Science to Return to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft

SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, May 2, west of Baja…

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Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway is First Step Towards Mars - ESA Coordinator

The Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway, which will be used for deep space exploration and research, is due to start…

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La fuga difficile da Proxima B - Le Scienze

Una civiltà tecnologicamente avanzata sviluppatasi su un pianeta in una zona abitabile al di fuori del nostro sistema…

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How Pluto got its name | EarthSky.org

May 1, 1930. On this date, 11-year-old Venetia Burney in Oxford, England, received £5 (now $6.87 U.S.) for her clever…

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