luglio 2017

AstroNews 7/2017

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

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15 min readJul 4, 2017

31/7/2017

Saturn Surprises Right Up Until Cassini's End - Sky & Telescope

The ringed planet seems to be hanging on to at least some of its secrets right up until the very end. NASA's Cassini…

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Astronomers Discover "Heavy Metal" Supernova Rocking Out

Many rock stars don't like to play by the rules, and a cosmic one is no exception. A team of astronomers has discovered…

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NASA Tests the Webb Telescope's Communication Skills

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently completed its Ground Segment Test Number 1 (GSEG-1), for the first time…

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NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Still Reaching for the Stars After 40 Years

Humanity's farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this…

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An Earth-like Atmosphere May Not Survive Proxima b's Orbit

An Earth-like planet outside the solar system may not be able to keep a grip on its atmosphere, leaving the surface…

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28/7/2017

Globular Clusters for Faint Galaxies - Sky & Telescope

The origin of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) has posed a long-standing mystery for astronomers. New observations of…

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Supernova-hunting team finds comet with aid of amateur astronomer

Carnegie's Benjamin Shappee is part of a team of scientists, including an Australian amateur astronomer, which…

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ALMA Confirms Complex Chemistry in Titan's Atmosphere

Saturn's frigid moon Titan has a curious atmosphere. In addition to a hazy mixture of nitrogen and hydrocarbons, like…

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Astrophysicists map out the light energy contained within the Milky Way

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National Solar Observatory Predicts Shape of Solar Corona for August Eclipse | NSO

But there is more to the corona than one might initially realize. Dr. Gordon Petrie from the National Solar Observatory…

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Saturn Moon Has Chemical That Could Form 'Membranes'

NASA scientists have definitively detected the chemical acrylonitrile, also known as vinyl cyanide, in the atmosphere…

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27/7/2017

Portals to new worlds: Martian exploration near the North Pole

July 27 (UPI) -- Perched on the edge of a 39-million-year-old crater is a white circular hut. It sticks out on the…

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Asteroid Flyby to Help NASA Observation

For the first time, NASA will use an actual space rock for an observational campaign to test NASA's network of…

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Breakthrough Starshot Takes to Space - Sky & Telescope

Six Sprites, "the world's smallest spacecraft," have entered low-Earth orbit, a small milestone for Breakthrough…

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ALMA Captures Star Formation in Action - Sky & Telescope

New ALMA observations reveal a forming star as it launches a wind from the edge of the disk that feeds it. A Sun-like…

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A Tale of Three Stellar Cities

Using new observations from ESO's VLT Survey Telescope, astronomers have discovered three different populations of…

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

It's a moonshot. A signal has been spotted that might be the first moon detected outside our solar system, and…

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Galactic David and Goliath

The gravitational dance between two galaxies in our local neighbourhood has led to intriguing visual features in both…

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26/7/2016

Scientists unveil new 3D view of galaxies

Unique, high-quality 3D data of 772 galaxies, obtained with the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope as part of the SAMI…

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First Support for a Physics Theory of Life | Quanta Magazine

Often, the system settles into an equilibrium state, where it has a balanced concentration of chemicals and reactions…

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UZH - Large-Mouthed Fish Was Top Predator After Mass Extinction

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The Dark Side of the Crater: Learning How to Explore the Moon's Poles

Things look different on the Moon. Literally. Because the Moon isn't big enough to hold a significant atmosphere, there…

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Portals to New Worlds: Martian Exploration Near the North Pole

Researchers are using Devon Island in Canada's High Arctic as a stand-in for Mars to help better understand how…

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Gamma-ray Burst Captured in Unprecedented Detail

Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic and explosive events in the universe. They are also short-lived, lasting…

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Massive star's dying blast caught by rapid-response telescopes

In June 2016, an international team of 31 astronomers, led by the University of Maryland's Eleanora Troja and including…

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Breakthrough Initiatives

Breakthrough Initiatives - including most notably, Breakthrough Starshot and Breakthrough Listen - are a set of long…

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Has Cassini found a universal driver for prebiotic chemistry at Titan?

Titan's complex atmosphere Has Cassini found a universal driver for prebiotic chemistry at Titan? The international…

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Milky Way's origins are not what they seem - Northwestern Now

Using supercomputer simulations, the research team found a major and unexpected new mode for how galaxies, including…

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25/7/2017

Conductivity key to mapping water inside Earth

Hydrogen at elevated temperature creates high electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle. New work by Lawrence…

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ASU astronomers find young galaxies that appeared soon after the Big Bang

ASU astronomers Sangeeta Malhotra and James Rhoads, working with international teams in Chile and China, have…

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SwRI team uses airborne telescopes to study Sun and Mercury during total solar eclipse

Boulder, Colo. - July 25, 2017 - A team led by Southwest Research Institute will use airborne telescopes aboard NASA…

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Why looking for aliens is good for society (even if there aren't any)

The search for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most compelling aspects of modern science. Given its…

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NASA's Venus Chamber Breaks Record with Completion of 80-day Test

After an 80-day test at Venus surface conditions and a two week cooling period, samples were removed from Glenn's…

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Cosmologists produce new maps of dark matter dynamics

New maps of dark matter dynamics in the Universe have been produced by a team of international cosmologists. Using…

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Venus's Turbulent Atmosphere

International research team sheds light on the Earth's 'twin planet' A research paper published today by Nature…

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Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought

NASA's WISE spacecraft, scanning the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, has delivered new insights about distant…

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24/7/2017

MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe

July 24, 2017 -- Denise Hoepfner, MSU News Service BOZEMAN - A Montana State University gravitational physicist has…

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Turbulence in planetary cores excited by tides - CNRS Web site - CNRS

Left: simulation of a cubic parcel located in the liquid core of a planet disturbed by tidal effects. By focusing their…

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Giant radio telescope scaled back to contain costs

Alex Cherney/terrastro.com Designs for the world's largest radio telescope have been scaled back to save money - a…

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Cassini 'Noodle' Mosaic of Saturn

This mosaic combines views captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it made the first dive of the mission's Grand…

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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists…

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A Final Farewell to LISA Pathfinder

The spacecraft was steady as they come. That has big implications for future science.

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Dark matter is likely 'cold,' not 'fuzzy,' scientists report after new simulations

News releases | Research | Science Dark matter is the aptly named unseen material that makes up the bulk of matter in…

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NASA mission surfs through waves in space to understand space weather

The space surrounding our planet is full of restless charged particles and roiling electric and magnetic fields, which…

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Scientists spy new evidence of water in the Moon's interior

Using satellite data, Brown researchers have for the first time detected widespread water within ancient explosive…

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21/7/2017

Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon

The death of a massive star in a distant galaxy 10 billion years ago created a rare superluminous supernova that…

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Flashes of light on the dark matter | SISSA

A web that passes through infinite intergalactic spaces, a dense cosmic forest illuminated by very distant lights and a…

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The Moon is Front and Center During a Total Solar Eclipse

In the lead-up to a total solar eclipse, most of the attention is on the sun, but Earth's moon also has a starring role…

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¿Por qué no llama ET? (parte 1)

En los últimos 60 años (y contando) grandes radiotelescopios en todo el mundo han recibido extrañas señales que en su…

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Discovery of a Free-Floating Double Planet? - Sky & Telescope

An object previously identified as a free-floating, large Jupiter analog turns out to be two objects - each with the…

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20/7/2017

Most precise measurement of the proton's mass | RIKEN

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Our ancestors were already warm-blooded just before the Permian-Triassic extinction event - CNRS…

20 july 2017 Our ancestors were already warm-blooded just before the Permian-Triassic extinction event

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Holographic Imaging Could Be Used to Detect Signs of Life in Space | Caltech

We may be capable of finding microbes in space-but if we did, could we tell what they were, and that they were alive…

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Scientists Get Best Measure of Star-forming Material in Galaxy Clusters in Early Universe

The international SpARCS collaboration based at UC Riverside has made the best measurement yet of the amount of fuel…

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Spiral arms allow school children to weigh black holes

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From Mars Rover: Panorama Above 'Perseverance Valley'

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved…

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NASA's Hubble Sees Martian Moon Orbiting the Red Planet

The sharp eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars.

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Goodbye, LISA Pathfinder - Sky & Telescope

A pioneering mission came to a quiet end earlier this week, as the European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder finished its…

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NASA-funded Citizen Science Project Discovers New Brown Dwarf - Astrobiology Magazine

One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered a novel object that was…

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Quantum teleportation is even weirder than you think

A BBC headline last week, 'First object teleported to Earth's orbit', has to be one of the most fantastical you'll see…

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19/7/2017

NASA's New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina

A primitive solar system object that's more fthan our billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) away passed in front of a…

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Good Night, LISA Pathfinder!

"When we were in contact with LISA Pathfinder yesterday evening for the last time and said good-bye to the satellite…

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Evidence of the Higgs Particle's Decay in Quarks

Freiburg, Jul 19, 2017 As part of the ATLAS collaboration, the Freiburg research group led by Prof. Dr. Karl Jakobs and…

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SETI Institute-Unistellar Partnership Promises to Revolutionize Amateur Astronomy

July 18, 2017 Mountain View, CA, USA and Marseille, France - The SETI Institute and French startup Unistellar…

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Top five places to look for extraterrestrial life

For all the hope and expectation, it is sobering to recall that, despite the best efforts of scientists and engineers…

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Humans First Arrived in Australia 65,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests

Dr. Clarkson said that the finding provides further insight into the complex capabilities of ancient humans as well as…

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This mysterious space signal is (probably) not from aliens

The signal was like nothing Abel Méndez had ever seen. It had the same frequency as radio emissions from satellites…

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18/7/2017

High-energy Trap in Our Galaxy's Center Revealed

Data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and a ground-based system in Namibia suggest the center of our Milky…

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100 Billion Brown Dwarfs in the Milky Way? - Sky & Telescope

A new study of a nearby cluster of newly formed stars reveals that brown dwarfs might rival stars in the Milky Way in…

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New Satellite "Mayak" Might Light Up the Sky - Sky & Telescope

Russia's first crowd-funded satellite, named Mayak (Russian for "beacon of light"), promises to be the "brightest…

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Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries

The origin and nature of Mars are mysterious. The planet has geologically distinct hemispheres with smooth lowlands in…

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Turns out T-Rex was nowhere near as fast as we thought

Updated | Tyrannosaurus rex could not run, scientists now believe, in direct contrast to previous research. Instead…

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17/7/2017

New breakthrough discovery: Every quantum particle travels backwards

Posted on 17 July 2017 Mathematicians at the Universities of York, Munich and Cardiff have identified a unique property…

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UK Physics and Astronomy Team Reveals Evidence of Impacts That Structured the Milky Way Galaxy

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 17, 2017) - A team from the University of Kentucky's Department of Physics and Astronomy has…

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NASA Neutron Star Mission Begins Science Operations

The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, payload completed commissioning and calibration and all…

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NASA Listens in as Electrons Whistle While They Work

NASA's Van Allen Probes have observed a new population of space sound waves, called plasmaspheric hiss, which are…

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How big is the universe?

There is no bigger empirical question in astrophysics than how big space is. Cathal O'Connell provides a brief history…

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14/7/2017

Amateur Observers Find an Asteroid's Moon - Sky & Telescope

A team of amateurs observers, some armed with just 3-inch telescopes, have found that the main-belt asteroid 113…

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For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun

This month, movements of the planets will put Mars almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective, causing…

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13/7/2017

The last survivors on Earth

Although much attention has been given to the cataclysmic impact that an astrophysical event would have on human life…

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A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo Observatory - Planetary Habitability…

The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is a virtual laboratory dedicated to the study of planetary habitability…

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LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll

LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll LISA Pathfinder operating in space The final days of the LISA Pathfinder mission…

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Shedding light on Galaxies' rotation secrets

The dichotomy concerns the so-called angular momentum (per unit mass), that in physics is a measure of size and…

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Tributes to wetter times on Mars

Tributes to wetter times on Mars A dried-out river valley with numerous tributaries is seen in this recent view of the…

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Yes, the sun is an ordinary, solar-type star after all

The Sun is a solar-type star, a new study claims -- resolving an ongoing controversy about whether the star at the…

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News | IUCAA

A team of astronomers from the Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), and Indian Institute of…

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More to Life Than the Habitable Zone

Two separate teams of scientists have identified major challenges for the development of life in what has recently…

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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson…

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12/7/2017

KAGRA: Japan's Underground Einstein Wave Detector - Sky & Telescope

On June 1, U.S. and European physicists published the latest results in their quest for gravitational waves - tiny…

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Quantum mechanics inside Earth's core

Physicists from the University of Würzburg have discovered surprising properties of nickel. They could help unravel…

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Alien ice on Earth

Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange…

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: W51 :: July 12, 2017

Another young, massive cluster located near the center of W51 hosts a star system that produces an extraordinarily…

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Strange Signals from the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR…

The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is a virtual laboratory dedicated to the study of planetary habitability…

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Smallest-ever star discovered by astronomers

The smallest star yet measured has been discovered by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge. With a…

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11/7/2017

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

Using this effect, a team of scientists from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) led by researcher Anastasio…

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Distant Galaxies 'Lift the Veil' on the End of the Cosmic Dark Ages

False color image of a 2 square degree region of the LAGER survey field, created from images taken in the optical at…

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Molecular outflow launched beyond the disk around a young star

For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics…

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The BepiColombo spacecraft is ready to solve the many mysteries of Mercury

The €1.65 billion BepiColombo spacecraft is now being unstacked for final tests after being displayed in its launch…

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New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis

Last year, the existence of an unknown planet in our solar system was announced. However, this hypothesis was…

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Exploring the Minispiral at the Milky Way's Center - Sky & Telescope

The region around Sgr A*, the 4-million-solar-mass black hole at the heart of our galaxy, is a complex and dynamic…

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Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller

In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density.

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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby over Jupiter's Great Red Spot

This science pass offered front-row seats to the planet's most iconic feature, the Great Red Spot.

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Press Release | World's First Demonstration of Space Quantum Communication Using a Microsatellite …

SOTA is the world's smallest and lightest quantum-communication transmitter (6 kg weight, 17.8 cm length, 11.4 cm width…

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10/7/2017

The microscopic origin of thermodynamics | SISSA

According to one of the main laws of thermodynamics, the entropy of a system, isolated and far from thermal equilibrium…

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Big, shape-shifting animals from the dawn of time

Major changes in the chemical composition of the world's oceans enabled the first large organisms - possibly some of…

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Smallest-ever star discovered by astronomers

The smallest star yet measured has been discovered by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge. With a…

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UA Astronomers Track the Birth of a 'Super-Earth'

A new model giving rise to young planetary systems offers a fresh solution to a puzzle that has vexed astronomers ever…

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SOFIA to Make Advance Observations of Next New Horizons Flyby Object

On July 10, researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, will attempt to study…

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7/7/2017

Counting calories in space

Rockets and spacecraft may get us to Mars, but food must nourish us on the journey. Now researchers are using the…

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Pitted Materials in Craters Could Indicate Buried Ice on Asteroids | Planetary Science Institute

Tucson, Ariz. -- Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and…

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Science uncovers the origin of the first light in the Universe

‘Let there be light’ isn’t just biblical. It’s science.

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2017 | Milky Way could have 100 billion brown dwarfs | University of St Andrews

University of St Andrews - Scotland's first University

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6/7/2017

A cosmic barbecue: Researchers spot 60 new 'hot Jupiter' candidates

Yale researchers have identified 60 potential new "hot Jupiters" - highly irradiated worlds that glow like coals on a…

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Researchers show how to make your own supernova

Researchers from the University of Oxford are using the largest, most intense lasers on the planet, to for the first…

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Odd planetary system around fast-spinning star doesn't quite fit existing models of planet…

Paraphrasing Isaac Asimov, scientific progress is announced not so much by "Eureka!" than by "Hm, this is odd!" The…

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First discovery of an exoplanet with SPHERE/VLT

Download the PDF version Picture taken by SPHERE, showing the planet made visible after the star has been hidden by the…

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Hubble pushed beyond limits to spot clumps of new stars in distant galaxy

When it comes to the distant universe, even the keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can only go so far…

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Hubble Sees Clumps of New Stars in Lensed Galaxy

Analyzing a galaxy through a gravitational lens, astronomers obtained images 10 times sharper than Hubble could see on…

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First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation

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News

Gwen Williams, a post-graduate researcher at Cardiff University, explains: "We've known for some time that dusty…

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Perchlorates on Mars enhance the bacteriocidal effects of UV light

Perchlorates have been identified on the surface of Mars. This has prompted speculation of what their influence would…

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News and Research Communications

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists have identified patterns in the Earth's magnetic field that evolve on the order of 1,000…

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Preparing for Mercury: BepiColombo stack completes testing

Preparing for Mercury: BepiColombo stack completes testing ESA's Mercury spacecraft has passed its final test in launch…

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5/7/2017

Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço

The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences - IA) is the largest…

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Fastest stars in the Milky Way are 'runaways' from another galaxy

A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy - which are travelling so fast that they…

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Ancient Animal Thought to be First Air Breather on Land Loses Claim to Fame

AUSTIN, Texas - Some good scientific sleuthing by an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin has helped…

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Re-Making Planets after Star-Death

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

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Calm Lakes on Titan Could Mean Smooth Landing for Future Space Probes

The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research led by…

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New Mysteries Surround New Horizons' Next Flyby Target

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft doesn't zoom past its next science target until New Year's Day 2019, but the Kuiper Belt…

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4/7/2017

Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched

GOTO is an autonomous, intelligent telescope, which will search for unusual activity in the sky, following alerts from…

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Shocking case of indigestion in supermassive black hole

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Surprise methanol detection points to an evolving story of Enceladus's plumes

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

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Ghana and South Africa celebrate first success of African network of telescopes - SKA SA

The Ministries of Ghana and South Africa announce the combination of 'first light' science observations which confirm…

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3/7/2017

Variable Winds on Hot Giant Exoplanet Help Study of Magnetic Field | Planetary Science Institute

PSI's Tamara M. Rogers has discovered that substantial variability in the winds on the hot giant exoplanet HAT-P-7b are…

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'Little Cub' gives astronomers rare chance to see galaxy demise

A primitive galaxy that could provide clues about the early universe has been spotted by astronomers as it begins to be…

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NASA plans to test asteroid deflection technique designed to prevent Earth impact

NASA is moving forward with a plan to develop a refrigerator-sized spacecraft capable of deflecting asteroids and…

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Under pressure - extreme atmosphere stripping may limit exoplanets' habitability

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

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1/7/2017

Flow of material observed for the first time around a young eruptive star

Every year, about two Earth masses of material flows to the disk of the young star V346 Nor from its surroundings, to…

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