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Planet Population is PlentifulParis, France (SPX) Jan 12, 2012 An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way. After a six-year search that surveyed millions of stars, the team concludes that planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception. The results will appear in the journal Nature on 12 January 2012. Over the past 16 years, astronomers have detected more than 700 confirmed exoplanets [1] and ... read more |
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  Boeing begins NASA solar electric propulsion study Boeing has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. Under the $600,000 firm, fixed-price contract, Boeing will ev ... more | .. |
  USAF Awards Contract to Lockheed Martin for GPS III Launch and Checkout Capability The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $21.5 million contract to provide a Launch and Checkout Capability (LCC) to command and control all GPS III satellites from launch through early on-o ... more | .. |
 Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and are 0.7 ... more | .. |
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  Canaveral has busy 2012 launch schedule The director of Florida's Cape Canaveral rocket range says a busy 2012 launch schedule is proof there's life after the end of NASA's shuttle program. ... more | .. |
  Stranded Mars probe to crash into ocean Sunday: Russia Russia's space agency on Wednesday pinpointed the likely trajectory of its stranded Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, predicting it would crash into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta later this week. ... more | .. |
 Kepler discovery establishes new class of planetary systems Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary" planet systems - planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such "two su ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Determine Color of the Milky Way Galaxy A team of University of Pittsburgh astronomers has announced the most accurate determination yet of the color of the (aptly named) Milky Way Galaxy: "a very pure white, almost mirroring a fresh spri ... more |
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 Stars Pop Onto the Scene in New Wise Image A new, large mosaic from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases a vast stretch of cosmic clouds bubbling with new star birth. The region - a 1,000-square-degree chunk of our Mil ... more | .. |
 Star Destroyed in Supernova Was White Dwarf Last year's discovery of the nearest Type Ia supernova in decades - captured only 11 hours after it exploded - allowed astronomers to finally cinch the identity of the stars behind these explosions, ... more | .. |
  Android-powered watches get Internet savvy The Internet was strapped to wrists at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday in the form of Android-powered "smart watches" that serve up online content along with telling time. ... more | .. |
 Milky Way teaming with 'billions' of planets: study The Milky Way is home to far more planets than previously thought, boosting the odds that at least one of them may harbour life, according to a study released Wednesday. ... more |
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 Google sees Android enhancing home appliances Google's Android software is best known for powering smartphones, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt sees a future where it could also help devices communicate at home. ... more | .. |
Solid state Swiss Army Knife can save digital lives Victorinox has pulled from its technology pocket a version of its vaunted Swiss Army knife equipped with a solid state drive capable of holding all of the digital data in a person's life. ... more | .. |
 RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of Bullets in Black Hole Jet Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astr ... more | .. |
  NASA Radar to Study Most Active Volcano On Hawaii An airborne radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has returned to Hawaii to continue its study of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii's current most active volcano. The Un ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
Heat from the Sun Linked to Seismic Activity on Earth
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 Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi team annou ... more | .. |
 Russia was well aware of Phobos-Grunt mission risks Phobos-Grunt, a failed Russian sample mission to a Martian moon, was launched despite risks of which Russian scientists were well aware, the head of the Russian space agency said on Tuesday. P ... more | .. |
  Ball Aerospace Submits Cryogenic Propellant Storage Mission Concept to NASA Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has submitted a mission concept study to NASA for the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space. Ball Aerospace was one of four companies awa ... more | .. |
 ORBCOMM Announces Launch of VesselSat2 ORBCOMM has announced the successful launch of VesselSat2, an Automatic Identification Service (AIS) enabled satellite built by LuxSpace Sarl (LuxSpace), an affiliate of OHB System AG. VesselSat2 wa ... more |
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 When galaxy clusters collide A UC Davis graduate student who is leading a study of the collision of galaxy clusters 5 billion light years away will discuss the team's findings in a press briefing at the annual meeting of the Am ... more | .. |
 The Challenges of Building A House on Mars Going to Mars? Expect to stay a while. Because of the relative motions of Earth and Mars, the pioneering astronauts who touch down on the Martian surface will have to remain there for a year and a h ... more | .. |
  Mirror Casting Event for the Giant Magellan Telescope On January 14, 2012, the second 8.4-meter (27.6 ft) diameter mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be cast inside a rotating furnace at the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab underneat ... more | .. |
  ARISSat-1/KEDR amateur radio satellite deorbits On January 4, 2012, the Amateur Radio satellite, ARISSat-1/KEDR ended its 5 month mission as it deorbited through Earth's atmosphere. A report from the AMSAT web site states, "The last full telemetr ... more |
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 UBC astronomers help map the universe's dark matter at unprecedented scale University of British Columbia and University of Edinburgh astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed, according to results released at the American Astronomical Society ... more | .. |
 Herschel and Spitzer See Stardust In Nearby Galaxies The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions ... more | .. |
 New Star Cluster W3A Images Captured by SOFIA Observatory NASAs Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) researchers have captured new images of a recently born cluster of massive stars named W3A. The cluster is seen lurking in the depths o ... more | .. |
 Scientists searching for Earth-type planets should consider two-star system A group of astrophysicists from The University of Texas at Arlington plans to expand the discussion about a newly discovered planet orbiting two stars by presenting a study suggesting where an Earth ... more |
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 Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe An exceptional galaxy cluster, the largest seen in the distant universe, has been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation-funded Atacama Cosmology Telescope ... more | .. |
  Russia hints at foul play in its space failures The head of Russia's beleaguered space programme hinted on Tuesday that foreign powers may be behind the string of failures that struck his agency in the past year. ... more | .. |
 Orion Drop Test - Jan. 06, 2012 After six months of testing, an 18,000 pound (8,165 kg) Orion mockup took its final splash into NASA Langley Research Center's Hydro Impact Basin on Jan. 6. Orion, the next deep space explorat ... more | .. |
High-tech gadget show opens doors in Vegas The International Consumer Electronics Show kicked off on Tuesday with a dazzling array of high-tech gadgetry including ultra-thin laptops, snazzy smartphones, iPad rivals and flat-screen and 3D TVs. ... more |
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