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The year 2010 will see the commissioning of the world's most powerful and advanced airborne telescope, capable of watching targeted events from the most advantageous positions possible at all times. As opposed to ground-based telescopes, which are restrained to their geographical locations no matter what, the St... |
20 November 2009
04:50 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that most of the space probes, landers, orbiters and rovers we send out into the solar system pass through extensive cleaning stages, there is always the risk of them carrying some organisms from the Earth on another celestial body. Experts warn that this is to be avoided at all costs, most impor... |
16 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe is scheduled to begin its third and final flyby of the closest planet to the Sun today, before pulling a complex, gravity-assist maneuver that will allow for it to be captured in the planet's orbit starting with March 2011... |
29 September 2009
05:27 GMT |
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British researchers have recently announced the creation of a new method of putting a time line on the most significant events that took place within our Solar System, relying on measuring concentrations of aluminum isotopes found in meteorites, comets, and other such bodies. In a new paper, published in the respecte... |
25 August 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Questions related to how the solar system appeared some 4.7 billion years ago have been around since the first people started using their brains for more than capturing their next meal. Science has only recently been able to provide some preliminary answers to this type of questions, although numerous ones still rema... |
21 August 2009
10:53 GMT |
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The Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope has recently discovered the heat signatures of a massive impact event that took place within the last thousands of years around a young star. Two large bodies, one at least the size of the Moon, and the other probably as large as Mercury, collided into each other, and the clash re... |
11 August 2009
06:59 GMT |
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The decision of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to declassify Pluto as a planet, and to move it to the lesser class of “dwarf planets” sparked widespread protests and disagreement in 2006. The move resulted from the fact that the new definition of the term “planet,” coined at the IA... |
27 July 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Exactly 15 years after Jupiter ripped apart and destroyed the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, astronomers have discovered a new dark spot on the surface of the planet, which is comparable to the ones left behind by the former comet, when it slammed into the Jovian atmosphere. NASA made the find with the Jet Propulsion Lab�... |
21 July 2009
01:52 GMT |
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Some 234 years before the planet was officially found, Galileo may have made the earliest observations of Neptune, a new study of the famous astronomer's diary and notebooks reveals. Professor David Jamieson, the head of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, made the astonishing claim, after studying in... |
10 July 2009
02:18 GMT |
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This relatively new field of robotics refers to future NASA abilities of controlling numerous machines on distant planets via single central command units. Only recently, the American space agency has awarded the Aurora Flight Sciences, the MIT's Manned Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), and the MIT Humans and Automation... |
21 March 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Though Mars is most of the times considered Earth's sister planet, the truth might be completely different. As promised last week, the European Space Agency released yesterday in a press conference new information collected by the Venus Express mission, regarding Venus' atmosphere and surface. Surprisingly,... |
29 November 2007
04:53 GMT |
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By observing nearby galaxies, using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope situated in Hawaii, astronomer Floris van der Tak observed in the dust clouds outside our galaxy, the first acidic cloud. The stellar and planetary formation might be explained through acidification inhibition, but astronomers cannot know for certa... |
22 November 2007
06:23 GMT |
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Viewed from Earth, in the last past weeks, Mars appears to have slowed down its movement across the sky, and it seems that on the night of November 15th it will look like it were standing still. That is not the case, though, since it's just an optical illusion, such as that which made the ancient people believe ... |
10 November 2007
07:02 GMT |
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New studies in astrophysics bring an unexpected result. Stars with high metalicity have fewer stellar companions. The research was conducted at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales and could help in the search for stars that have Earth-like planets.The metalicity is a scientific te... |
9 November 2007
08:55 GMT |
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After 18 years of careful observation conducted on the 55 Cancri planetary system, scientists announced yesterday the confirmation of the discovery of the fifth planet, making 55 Cancri the biggest planetary system known today.55 Cancri is a binary system composed of two components: a yellow dwarf star similar to the... |
7 November 2007
02:52 GMT |
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A new X-ray telescope is prepared by the European Space Agency, to further study the origins of the Universe. XEUS or X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy aims to study the fundamental laws of the Universe, the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes and the galaxies. XEUS will be 30-50 times more sensiti... |
6 November 2007
03:23 GMT |
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Astronomers have just found an unusual blue halo around a distant star that looks like a glowing cosmic needle. This enlarged debris disk could point at hidden planets, since it is a well-known fact that they are leftovers from planet formation processes.The young star is called HD 15115, observed using NASA's ... |
20 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Astronomers have recently analyzed the chemical composition of distant stars and discovered intriguing evidence of pollution on their surface, caused by the planets orbiting them. It seems that dwarf stars display iron enrichment on their surface, most likely caused by planetary debris thrown in space and falling o... |
10 July 2007
04:47 GMT |
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We like to think highly of ourselves, in particular but also in general. The human race did this, the human race did that, we could someday go, become, explore... But most people never really realize how insignificant the Earth really is in the grand scheme of the Universe.If we compare Earth's size with that o... |
7 July 2007
08:03 GMT |
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Landing at high enough speeds on sandy planets could sink the landing module deep in the sand layer, just like a rock diving into a pool. This is the conclusion of a new study that considered the problem of sand on other planets and how that could affect future manned missions to the Moon and Mars.Both Mars and the M... |
4 July 2007
10:59 GMT |
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It's been years since NASA last heard from either of its two Pioneer probes hurtling out of the solar system, but scientists are still debating the source of an odd force pushing against the outbound spacecraft.A new study of the "Pioneer anomaly" suggests that there is an unknown but conventional force acting ... |
22 June 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Finding planets orbiting stars at great distances from our solar system is not an easy job, but there seems to be many of them out there, according to recent observations. And that's a great thing, since it's actually harder than finding a needle in a hay stack. It's more like looking for a firefly fly... |
20 June 2007
11:07 GMT |
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The week is about to end and let another game take its place in the review section. This time it's something pretty different.If you're bored already with puzzles or "zuma"-like games, here's something that will keep you busy. At least in the training area."Arvoch Conflict" is something that looks real... |
8 June 2007
18:00 GMT |
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to be a significant improvement on the aging Hubble Space Telescope, which is about to be decommissioned, after successfully serving its purpose since 1990. The agency is considering equipping the telescope with a grapple... |
1 June 2007
16:11 GMT |
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