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Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthroughMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 05, 2012 A ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the outer-space race. The megawatt-class nuclear drive will function for up to three years and produce 100-150 kilowatts of energy at normal capacity. The new project proposes the use of an electric ion propulsion system. The engines exhaust thrust will be generated by an ion flow, which is further acc ... read more |
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  Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet observat ... more | .. |
 The dark heart of a cosmic collision Two of ESA's space observatories have combined to create a multi-wavelength view of violent events taking place within the giant galaxy of Centaurus A. The new observations strengthen the view that ... more | .. |
 New isotope measurement could alter history of early solar system The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according to research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published in Science ... more | .. |
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  CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth CODITA has received a EUR 2.5 million grant from the European Research Council to investigate the dust input over the next 5 years. The international team, led by Professor Plane, is made up of 11 s ... more | .. |
 Observing the galaxy distribution when the universe was half its current age At the UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting NAM2012, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) team announced the most accurate measurement yet of the distribution of galaxies between five ... more | .. |
 NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured an infrared image of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, plan ... more | .. |
 Mapping Galaxy Formation in Dual Mode A team of astronomers led by David Sobral (Leiden Observatory and Royal Observatory of Edinburgh) has explored the synergies between the Subaru Telescope and the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope ( ... more |
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 Milky Way image reveals detail of a billion stars More than one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in an image captured by an international team of astronomers. Scientists created the colour picture by ... more | .. |
  Cassini makes simultaneous measurements of Saturn's nightside aurora and electric current system Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the firs ... more | .. |
 New SCUBA-2 camera reveals wild youth of the universe A team of astronomers from the UK, Canada and the Netherlands have commenced a revolutionary new study of cosmic star-formation history, looking back in time to when the universe was still in its li ... more | .. |
  NASA's Kepler Mission Awarded Mission Extension NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the agencys Senior Review of its operating missions. The extension provides four a ... more |
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  In the Beginning ... Was the Beaker? In the beginning ... but how do you begin? That question has long perplexed scientists in fields from cosmology to anthropology. Fortunately, researchers at the Office of Science's Brookhaven Nation ... more | .. |
  12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught In Act A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution I ... more | .. |
  Spy satellite-carrying rocket blasts off A Delta 4 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to deliver a spy satellite to orbit, officials said. ... more | .. |
  James Murdoch quits as BSkyB chairman James Murdoch resigned as chairman of British pay-TV giant BSkyB Tuesday, saying he did not want to become a "lightning rod" for the hacking scandal at his father Rupert's media empire. ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
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 A planetary system from the early Universe A group of European astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consists of th ... more | .. |
  Handover of Japan-built Radar to NASA On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Dual-frequency Precipitation Ra ... more | .. |
  Busy first days for ATV Edoardo Amaldi Just two days after a flawless docking with the ISS on 29 March, ESA's third ATV has conducted its first 'test' reboost, proving that it is fully integrated with the Station and ready to perform orb ... more | .. |
 Space Savings for ISS Science Samples Efficiency is the name of the game when talking about packing things into small spaces. Anyone who has ever tried to compress an overstuffed suitcase knows that one of the greatest updates to carry- ... more |
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 NASA and ATK Push Ahead With Booster for Deep Space Exploration System NASA and ATK hascompleted the first test for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) booster program March 28 at ATK's Promontory, Utah, test facility. This demonstration was a key avionics and controls te ... more | .. |
 Orbital Receives Order for Minotaur I Space Launch Vehicle From USAF Orbital Sciences reports that the U.S. Air Force has exercised an option order for a Minotaur I space launch vehicle to support the ORS-3 "Enabler" mission for the Operationally Responsive Space (OR ... more | .. |
  Met Office to Provide Space Weather Warnings for Planet Earth and Forecasts for Exoplanets The UK Met Office's weather and climate model is being adapted to help understand space weather at Earth and the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. Two teams of scientists presented their ... more | .. |
  Boeing Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing Commercial Crew T ... more |
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  Earth's Other Moons Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter M ... more | .. |
 Solar Eruptions Cause Sunquakes A study led by UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory has shown for the first time that sunquakes can be produced during eruptions of magnetic field and charged particles, as the immense magnetic st ... more | .. |
 Supersonic snowballs in hell how comets interact with the Sun's atmosphere Since the 1980s astronomers have seen thousands of comets falling towards the Sun, most of them too small to survive a close approach, let alone to re-emerge. Until recently no such objects had been ... more | .. |
 Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescop ... more |
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  Hardware 'bug' hits TomTom nav devices The Dutch maker of TomTom satellite-navigation units says a "leap year bug" has caused a fault resulting in some of the devices malfunctioning. ... more | .. |
 Discovery of an 'alien earth' imminent? The first planet that can be considered a true "alien Earth" will probably be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. ... more | .. |
  Australia, S. Korea create giant telescope Astronomers in Australia have linked radio telescopes in that country with counterparts in South Korea to create a giant instrument almost 5,000 miles across. ... more | .. |
  US scientists launch personalized robot project Imagine going to a local store, picking out a design for a robot to help with some household chores, and having the device built within a matter of hours. ... more |
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