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Top US lawmaker skeptical of new space fundingWashington (AFP) Dec 16, 2009 Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she was personally skeptical of manned space missions and warned that NASA's future funding could depend on whether it was likely to create jobs. Pelosi vowed "harsh scrutiny" of all spending requests and said she would be asking "what is the mission? How will the money effectively be spent, in what period of time, to create jobs, compared ... read more |
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Boston (UPI) Dec 17, 2009 A Harvard astronomer spotted a planet 2.7 times the size of Earth only 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, a scientist said. Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, called the discovery by Harvard's David Charbonneau "extraordinary" because when planet hunters search for life-supporting planets, they usually focus on far-away stars that are large and ho ... more  
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 16, 2009About 550 light-years from Earth, a star like our Sun is writhing in its death throes. Chi Cygni has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that it would swallow every planet out to Mars in our solar system. Moreover, it has begun to pulse dramatically in and out, beating like a giant heart. New close-up photos of the surface of this distant star show its throbbing motions in unprecedented detail. "This work opens a window onto the fate of our Sun five billion years from now, when it will near ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2009At the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to the outside of the European Columbus laboratory onboard the International Space Station ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2009Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide in a key part of our atmosphere. The data are courtesy of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft. Moustafa Chahine, the instrument's science team leader at NASA's ... more 
Manchester, UK (SPX) Dec 16, 2009A University of Manchester scientist, working as part of an international team, has uncovered an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos. Dr Henner Busemann from The School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences has uncovered minute grains in stratospheric dust that may have formed inside stars that lived and died long before the birth of our sun. Dust ... more  
Beijing, China (RIA Novosti) Dec 16, 2009China has put into orbit its first public-welfare mini satellite, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported. Hope I was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province along with a remote-sensing satellite Yaogan VIII both on board a Long March 4C carrier rocket. The satellite will be used by students in China to study and experience aerospace science ... more |
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