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June 15, 2012
SPACE TRAVEL
Data From Voyager 1 Points To Interstellar Future
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2012
Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased. Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion - that humanity's first emissary to interstellar space is on the edge of our solar system. "The laws of physics say that someday Voyager will become the first human-made object to enter int ... read more

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DRAGON SPACE

Time Shifts for Tiangong
Three astronauts will soon board China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory after the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft docks with it. The first Chinese crew to fly in space in roughly four years includes China's firs ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Major Liu Yang - a Chinese heroine in waiting?
For the last five days Major Liu Yang, a 33 year old Air Force pilot, has been living with five colleagues, and a team of doctors and technical specialists, in a quarantine facility at the Jiuquan S ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Faces Slow Going Due To Communication Issues
Opportunity has been investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Recently, things became complicated, first by Mars Odyssey orbiter going ... more
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MARSDAILY

Test of Spare Wheel Puts Odyssey on Path to Recovery
In a step toward returning NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to full service, mission controllers have tested a spare reaction wheel on the spacecraft for potential use with two other reaction wheels in a ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
An 18-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

NASA Administrator Bolden Views Historic SpaceX Dragon Capsule
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk at the SpaceX Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas, Wednesday to see the first commercial space capsule to ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China to send its first woman into space on Saturday
China said Friday a female astronaut will be among the three-person team on board the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft when it launches on Saturday ahead of the country's first manned space docking. ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Pentagon orders Russian cyber offensive 'stand down'
European leaders back Zelensky in London summit after heated Trump meeting
German govt hopefuls planning billions for defence spending: report
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IRON AND ICE

'Unusually large' asteroid to race by Earth
A newly discovered asteroid the size of a city block will zoom past Earth but poses no risk of a collision, astronomers said on Thursday. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home
Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out from the center. It lives in a fairly calm, suburb-l ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA's Fermi Detects the Highest-Energy Light From a Solar Flare
During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely
Two of our Milky Way's neighbor galaxies may have had a close encounter billions of years ago, recent studies with the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) indicate. The new obse ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers Map 40 Million Stars
Astronomers will soon have access to a new map of the sky that accurately measures the brightness and position of over 40 million stars. This map is a result of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey, ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Spotting Ultrafine Loops in the Sun's Corona
A key to understanding the dynamics of the sun and what causes the great solar explosions there relies on deciphering how material, heat and energy swirl across the sun's surface and rise into the u ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Watching asteroids and comets to avoid impact
Dangers posed by asteroids are among the issues discussed during the third international meeting of the top-level representatives in charge security currently underway in Saint-Petersburg. The repor ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers pinpoint elusive galaxy after decade-long hunt
An international team of astronomers led by Fabian Walter of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has managed for the first time to determine the distance of the galaxy HDF850.1, well-known among ... more
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Beyond the burn: Harvesting dead wood to reduce wildfires and store carbon
Helium Found in Earth's Core Suggests New Insights into Planetary Formation
Rescue efforts enter third day at India avalanche site
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Magnetic fields slow down stars
Scientists have proved the existence of a magnetic effect that could explain why solar-like stars spin very slowly at the end of their lifetime. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysi ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Extremely little telescope discovers pair of odd planets
Even small telescopes can make big discoveries. Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence o ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

No evidence for 'knots' in space
Theories of the primordial Universe predict the existence of knots in the fabric of space - known as cosmic textures - which could be identified by looking at light from the cosmic microwave backgro ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Alien Earths Could Form Earlier than Expected
Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe. The Big Bang filled space with hydrogen and helium. Chemical elements like silicon a ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

NuSTAR opens out of this world view thanks to Lab technology
For astrophysicist Bill Craig and his team, NASA's NuSTAR will open up a whole new world. In fact, NuSTAR will allow them to observe a new class of objects in space, called extreme objects, which ha ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planets can form around different types of stars
It had previously been thought that planets were more likely to form around a star if the star had a high content of heavier elements. But new research from the University of Copenhagen, among other ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Orbital Launches Company-Built NuSTAR Satellite Aboard Pegasus Rocket for NASA
Orbital Sciences reports that its Pegasus rocket has successfully launched the company-built Nuclear Spectroscopic Array Telescope (NuSTAR) satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administr ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Media Tonedown for Tiangong
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2012 The launch of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is a major step forward for China's astronaut program. It's attracted the attention of the w ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

X-ray telescope to focus on hottest regions of black holes, supernovas
NASA is scheduled to launch an orbiting X-ray satellite on Wednesday, June 13, that will open a new window on the universe, allowing scientists to probe the roiling edges of black holes, the turbule ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Tiangong's Big Tasks
The flight of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is another step in China's most ambitious human spaceflight project to date. While much of the mission has yet to be completed, Ti ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

With some help from Stanford and SLAC, an orbiting telescope sees the universe's X-rays
NASA's newest telescope headed for orbit Wednesday, developed with help from researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford's main campus. Its rocket ignited in the night skies s ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form
The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. However, new ground-based observations, combined with da ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Successful launch for NASA's 'black hole hunter' telescope
A sophisticated orbiting telescope that uses high-energy X-ray vision to hunt for black holes in the universe launched on Wednesday after an aircraft-to-rocket takeoff, NASA said. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain weird lunar soil behaviour
A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. D ... more
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GPS NEWS

GPS being used as weather forecast tool
Australian scientists say the global positioning system can make weather forecasting more accurate by providing a new type of temperature observation. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch
China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... more
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