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April 17, 2013

ALMA Pinpoints Early Galaxies At Record Speed
Munich, Germany (ESO) Apr 17, 2013
A team of astronomers has used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early universe. ALMA is so powerful that, in just a few hours, it captured as many observations of these galaxies as have been made by all similar telescopes worldwide over a span of more than a decade. The most fertile bursts of star birth in the early universe took place in distant galaxies containing lots of cos ... read more

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How to Target an Asteroid Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space na ... more		Dark Matter Search Results Indicate First Hint Of Wimp-Like Signal An international collaboration whose search for dark matter is powered by detectors being fabricated at Texas A and M University has for the first time observed a concrete hint of what physicists be ... more		A look at the world explains 90 percent of changes in vegetation The climate governs the seasonal activity of vegetation; humankind influences it. In the humid mid-latitudes, temperature is the largest influencing factor for plant growth. In predominantly dry are ... more
				Eye Exam for a Satellite You don't just strap a satellite to a rocket, launch it, and voila, it takes measurements. Beyond maneuvering into the right orbit, there are a series of check-out procedures to make sure the satell ... more		For the very first time, two spacecraft will fly in formation with millimeter precision Spanish industry is leading the Proba-3 mission, a world first in precise formation flying. This European Space Agency (ESA) project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single ob ... more

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NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves As Earth moves around the sun, it travels surrounded by a giant bubble created by its own magnetic fields, called the magnetosphere. As the magnetosphere plows through space, it sets up a standing b ... more		Photons run out of loopholes A team led by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger has now carried out an experiment with photons, in which they have closed an important loophole. The researchers have thus provided the most comp ... more		NATO chief says Ukraine security guarantees need US 'backup' Finland wants to up defence in face of Russia threat China says Philippine aircraft 'illegally' flew over disputed sea		ILS Proton Launches Anik G1 for Telesat International Launch Services (ILS), a leader in providing mission integration and launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, successfully delivered Telesat's Anik G1 satellite int ... more
				UC Berkeley selected to build NASA's next space weather satellite NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to determine how Earth's weather affects weather at the edge of space, in hopes of improving forecast ... more		Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray Bursts Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two international teams of astronomers stud ... more

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				UH Engineering Researcher's Theories to be Tested Aboard ISS A University of Houston chemical and biomolecular engineering professor's theories on crystal formation will be tested aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Professor Peter Vekilov rec ... more		NASA, Air Force Seek Next Generation Space Processor Program NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are requesting research and development proposals to define the type of spacecraft computing needed for future missions. T ... more

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	Hubble Catches Dusty Detail in Elliptical Galaxy NGC 2768 The soft glow in this image is NGC 2768, an elliptical galaxy located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). NGC 2768 appears here as a bright oval on the sky, surrounded by a ... more		Spring Fling: Sun Emits a Mid-Level Flare The M6.5 flare on the morning of April 11, 2013, was also associated with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), another solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles in ... more		The mathematical method for simulating the evolution of the solar system has been improved In order to improve a simulation designed to study the evolution of the solar system through time, numerical mathematical methods have been developed at the Computing Faculty of the University of th ... more		Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's orbit. Based ... more

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Opportunity For A Quiet Period for Next Three Weeks

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