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![]() Upton NY (SPX) Jul 23, 2012 A review article appearing in the journal Science describes groundbreaking discoveries that have emerged from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, synergies with the heavy-ion program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe, and the compelling questions that will drive this research forward on both sides of the Atlantic. With details that help enlighten our understanding of the hot nuclear matter that permeated the early ... read more |
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![]() ExoMars program gathers strength The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) are expected to sign an agreement on the implementation of the second stage of the ExoMars program in the fall of 2012. ... more | .. |
![]() National Science Foundation Will Advance the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope With approval from the National Science Board, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Director will advance the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to the final design stage. This action permits t ... more | .. |
![]() Seeds of Massive Black Holes Found at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy A research team at Keio University, led by Associate Professor Tomoharu Oka, has discovered intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 30,000 l ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Earth-observing Camera Launches to International Space Station A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's third H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV- ... more | .. |
![]() Meet the Faces Behind the MIRI Part One This summer welcomed the delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope's first flight instrument, the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). The MIRI will peer out into the farthest depths of the cosmos and c ... more | .. |
![]() Landsat Looks and Sees The American sage Yogi Berra once said: "You can see a lot by just looking." The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations from space - ever. Since its first sate ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Completes Another Orion Parachute Test NASA completed another successful test Wednesday of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the spacecraft's orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carr ... more |
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![]() Plans to revisit Moon impeded by financial difficulties Along with pure science, these plans include significant engineering advances in order to send rovers to the Moon, and return samples from its surface. Yet despite high ambitions, researchers are co ... more | .. |
![]() Japanese Rocket Sends Cargo to ISS An unmanned Japanese rocket on Saturday blasted off to deliver more than five tons of cargo to the International Space Station according to live images released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Ag ... more | .. |
![]() Solar Corona Revealed in Super-High-Definition Astronomers have released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light. The 16-megapixel imag ... more | .. |
![]() Scientists Bring Low Frequency, 'First Light' to the Jansky Very Large Array U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists from the Radio Astrophysics and Sensing Section of the Remote Sensing Division in conjunction with radio astronomers and engineers from the National Radio A ... more |
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![]() River networks on Titan point to a puzzling geologic history For many years, Titan's thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn's largest moon appeared through telescopes as a hazy orange orb, in contra ... more | .. |
![]() Colorful science sheds light on solar heating A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information - often through graphs and images. Such visualiza ... more | .. |
![]() SSTL announces the launch of exactView-1 Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has announced the successful launch of exactView-1 at UTC 06:41:39 into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 800km by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodro ... more | .. |
![]() Japan cargo ship heads to space station Japan said it launched a cargo ship into space this weekend carrying supplies to the International Space Station. ... more |
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![]() Physicist bemoans lack of science classes Noted British physicist Brian Cox says so many young people are interested in a career in science there is a shortage in college classes to meet the demand. ... more | .. |
![]() Russia says no manned moon shots till 2018 Russia's timetable for manned flights to the moon has been pushed back two more years with no launches until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency said. ... more | .. |
![]() The Spaceport maintains its mission cadence for Ariane 5 flights The two satellite passengers for Arianespace's next heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission are now undergoing final preparations at the Spaceport, while launcher components for the following flight have arrive ... more | .. |
![]() Why Is Earth So Dry? With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. And yet, less than one percen ... more |
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![]() Heliophysics Nugget: Riding the Plasma Wave Throughout the universe more than 99 percent of matter looks nothing like what's on Earth. Instead of materials we can touch and see, instead of motions we intuitively expect like a ball rolling dow ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year's storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at the planet, with bluish spots in the mi ... more | .. |
![]() Etchings, Pavers Mark Where Shuttles' Wheels Stopped NASA's space shuttles flew their final missions in 2011, finishing each with a touchdown on the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) runway at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Permanent reminders now mark ... more | .. |
![]() Time in Space, A Space in Time There are only so many hours in a day, as many people lament while trying to fit in everything they hope to accomplish for work, family and fun. It seems like everyone could use more time. With only ... more |
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![]() Innovative, Balloon-Borne Solar Space Imager Selected for NASA Training Award An innovative, dual solar/space imaging project, jointly developed by enterprising researchers at two NASA field centers, has been selected for the agency's Hands-On Project Experience (HOPE) Traini ... more | .. |
![]() Indian astronomy satellite to study universe at multi-wavelengths Astrosat, the $50 million astronomy satellite India will put in polar circular orbit in 2013, will study the universe at multi-wavelengths for the first time, a senior space agency official said. "T ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Selects Space Launch System Advanced Booster Proposals NASA has selected six proposals to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of an advanced booster for the Space Launch System (SLS). The awardees will develop engineering demonstratio ... more | .. |
![]() GeoEye Signs Two New Seven-Figure GeoEye-1 Imagery Contracts GeoEye recently signed seven-figure agreements with two international partners in the Middle East and Asia for both the renewal and expanded use of GeoEye imagery products. The Middle East affiliate ... more |
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![]() New York museum opens space shuttle Enterprise to public A New York aerospace museum opened the space shuttle Enterprise to the public Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Opportunity Runs the First Martian Marathon With all the fanfare about Mars rover Curiosity landing on the Red Planet in August 2012, it's easy to forget that there's already a rover on Mars-an older, smaller cousin set to accomplish a feat u ... more | .. |
![]() S. Korea plans fresh rocket launch in October South Korea will make a third attempt this October at a rocket launch aimed at placing a satellite into orbit, its science ministry said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() NRL Brings Inertia of Space to Robotics Research The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Spacecraft Engineering Department's space robotics research facility recently took possession of a one-of-a-kind 75,000 pound Gravity Offset Table (GOT) made from ... more |
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