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January 08, 2014

Space weather forces Orbital to postpone cargo launch
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2014
Turbulent space weather forced Orbital Sciences on Wednesday to postpone the launch of its unmanned Cygnus spacecraft on its first regular contract flight to supply the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft had been set to take off at midday atop an Antares rocket carrying 2,780 pounds (1,260 kilograms) of gear including science experiments, supplies and hardware. However, a potent solar flare caused increased levels of space radiation that might have damaged the spacecraft's el ... read more

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Europe's star-hunter enters orbit: agency A billion-dollar star-hunting telescope slotted into its operational orbit Wednesday prior to harvesting data for the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. ... more		NASA: Planet-size storms may be roiling surface of brown dwarf stars Space telescope observations suggest swirling, turbulent clouds in planet-size storms may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs, NASA says. ... more		U.S. undergraduates impress astronomers with asteroid discovery University of Maryland undergraduates have impressed professional astronomers by finding a rare pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another. ... more
				Planet-hunting telescope camera returns first images of exoplanets U.S. astronomers say the world's most powerful exoplanet-hunting camera has turned it eye to the skies and returned its first images. ... more		An astronaut's rhythm Anyone who has flown long distances will be familiar with the jetlag that comes with travelling across time zones. Our body clocks need time to adjust to different daylight times as high-fliers and ... more

Supernova's super dust factory imaged with ALMA Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in the early Universe. Direct evidence of a supernova's dust-making capabilities, h ... more		Robots invade consumer market for play, work The robots are coming, and they're here to help. ... more		Iran Guards unveil underground naval base Israel intercepts missiles fired from Yemen Russian attacks kill six across Ukraine, Kyiv says		NASA Kepler Provides Insight About Enigmatic But Ubiquitous Planets, Five New Rocky Planets More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such pl ... more
				Does a Planet Need Life to Create Continents? If not for life, Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now, instead becoming a planet covered nearly entirely in ocean, researchers say. These new findings suggest that any continents ... more		NASA's Fermi Makes First Gamma-ray Study of a Gravitational Lens An international team of astronomers, using NASA's Fermi observatory, has made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a kind of natural telescope formed when a rare cosmic al ... more

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Newfound planet is Earth-mass but gassy An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star. KOI-314c is the lightest planet to have both its mass and physic ... more		Who Wants to Go to Mars - One Way? The maverick startup company, Mars One, has selected over 1,000 would be and hopeful emigrants who have applied for a one-way trip to Mars. The pool of applicants included over 200,000 people. ... more		Companies slam delay on deep-sea mining rules Slew of satellite projects aims to head off future wildfires Three million years ago our ancestors relied on plant-based diets		Newly discovered three-star system to challenge Einstein's theory of General Relativity A newly discovered system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense pulsar-all packed within a space smaller than the Earth's orbit around the sun-is enabling astronomers to probe a range of cosmic ... more
				ALMA Spots Supernova Dust Factory Striking new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope capture, for the first time, the remains of a recent supernova brimming with freshly formed dust. If ... more		Fossil in amber shows ancient reproduction process of flowering plants A plant preserved in 100 million-year-old amber has revealed the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant, U.S. and European researchers say. ... more

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