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Giant Super-Earths Made Of Diamond Are PossibleSan Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2011 A planet made of diamonds may sound lovely, but you wouldn't want to live there. A new study suggests that some stars in the Milky Way could harbor "carbon super-Earths" - giant terrestrial planets that contain up to 50 percent diamond. But if they exist, those planets are likely devoid of life as we know it. The finding comes from a laboratory experiment at Ohio State University, where researchers recreated the temperatures and pressures of Earth's lower mantle to study how diamonds form there. ... read more |
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  NASA vows $8.8 bln space telescope on track for 2018 After a series of delays and billions spent over budget, the potent James Webb Space Telescope is on track to launch in 2018 at a total project cost of $8.8 billion, NASA vowed on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  SAM I Am The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument ... more | .. |
  Astrium takes a major step forward in the development of Ariane 5 ME Astrium, the European space industry leader, has received confirmation from the European Space Agency (ESA) following its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) that the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution launcher ... more | .. |
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  Leicester set to fly high in India's first-ever national astronomy mission Highly specialised equipment constructed at the University of Leicester for India's first national astronomy satellite- Astrosat - is to be handed over to a delegation from India in December. ... more | .. |
  SES Appoints New Commercial Head For Europe SES has announced the appointment of Ferenc Szelenyi as its new Senior Vice President Commercial Europe for SES. He succeeds Norbert Holzle in this function, who has decided to leave SES. Fere ... more | .. |
  New Exhibition and Website on the Evolving Universe The cosmos constantly changes. Stars are born, live out their lives, and die - sometimes calmly, sometimes explosively. Galaxies form, grow, and collide dramatically. A new exhibition and website, d ... more | .. |
  Cosmic Explosion Explained Just in Time for Christmas An explosion far across the universe rattled astronomers last year on Christmas Day. Called a gamma-ray burst (GRB), it incited a flurry of activity from telescopes in space and on the ground, inclu ... more |
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  What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye? The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Ence ... more | .. |
  Orion Continues to Make a Splash Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,164.6 kg) Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1. Orion, NASA's next deep space ... more | .. |
 Record Massive Black Holes in Monster Galaxies University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered the largest black holes to date - two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion Suns that are threatening to consume anything, eve ... more | .. |
 First J-2X Combustion Stability Test a Success NASA conducted a key stability test firing of the J-2X rocket engine Dec. 1, marking another step forward in development of the upper-stage engine that will carry humans farther into space than ever ... more |
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  FLEX-ible Insight Into Flame Behavior Whether free-burning or smoldering, uncontrolled fire can threaten life and destroy property. On Earth, a little water, maybe some chemicals, and the fire is smothered. In space, where there is no u ... more | .. |
 Gaia sunshield deployment test Deployment testing of the Gaia Flight Model Deployable Sunshield Assembly has been successfully completed in preparation for the spacecraft mechanical test campaign. Gaia will perform micro-ar ... more | .. |
 Astronaut TJ Creamer Learns Space Station Science From the Ground Up He traveled 65,200,000 miles around the planet while living aboard the International Space Station for 161 days, but a new journey has led astronaut TJ Creamer to the Marshall Space Flight Center in ... more | .. |
  Astrium achieves Initial System Acceptance on Yahsat programme Astrium Services and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) have achieved the Initial System Acceptance (ISA) milestone, which was approved by the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) and the United ... more |
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 Team of Astronomer's Finds 18 New Planets Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ... more | .. |
 Fregat upper stage and Pleiades 1 ready for next Soyuz Kourou launch The primary payload for Arianespace's second Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now undergoing fueling, while the upper stage that will orbit this Earth observation satellite and five co-passengers ... more | .. |
  Total Eclipse of the Moon Waking up before sunrise can be tough to do, especially on a weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 10th, you might be glad you did. A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of wes ... more | .. |
 Strange New Type of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Spac ... more |
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 Astronomers Find Goldilocks Planet and Others This morning NASA announced the discovery of the first planet located in the "habitable zone" around a Sun-like star - the "just-right" orbit that's not too hot, nor too cold for water to exist in l ... more | .. |
 New Planet Kepler-21b discovery a partnership of both space and ground-based observations The NASA Kepler Mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way Galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where l ... more | .. |
 Two Black Holes Weigh In at 10 Billions Suns A team of astronomers including Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy of The University of Texas at Austin have discovered the most massive black holes to date - two monsters weighing as ... more | .. |
  Medical Robotics Helps Satellite Surgery Project Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breakin ... more |
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 Discovery of Fastest-Rotating Massive Star Ever Recorded An international team of scientists has found the fastest-rotating massive star ever recorded. The star spins around its axis at the speed of 600 kilometers per second at the equator, a rotational v ... more | .. |
 Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ready for Space Environment Tests NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), twin spacecraft being built and tested at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., are about to enter a challenging series o ... more | .. |
 The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a new online database of habitable worlds Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and ... more | .. |
 Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet c ... more |
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  Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purg ... more | .. |
  China launches 10th satellite for independent navigation system China successfully launched a satellite into space at 5:07 a.m. Beijing Time Friday, the 10th one of its indigenous global navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system, the ... more | .. |
 NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. ... more | .. |
 Earth-like planets feature in new survey Tired of life on Earth? There may be other options, according to a catalog released on Monday of planets and moons that could have the right conditions to support life, planetary scientists said. ... more |
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