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  Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 The origin of the universe started with the Big Bang, but how the supernova explosion ignited has long been a mystery - until now. In a new paper appearing in Science Magazine, researchers detailed the mechanisms that could cause the explosion, which is key for the models that scientists use to understand the origin of the universe. "We defined the critical criteria where we can drive a flame to self-generate its own turbulence, spontaneously accelerate, and transition into detonation," says ... read more |
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Indian Space Station to Have Room for Three Astronauts, Says Space Research BodyNew Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 01, 2019 Initial designs of the space station suggest that it will be a 20-tonne modular abode located in low earth orbit (LEO), at an altitude of between 120 km and 140 km. The Bengaluru-based Indian ... more  
British hypersonic engine passes key testBethesda MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 Reaction Engines, a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system, claims a breakthrough in aerospace engin ... more  
Astronomers catch wind rushing out of galaxySan Diego CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy called Makani, UC San Diego's Alison Coil, Rhodes College's David Rupke and a group of collaborators from around the world made a nove ... more  
New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmasFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 To create a practical fusion energy reactor, researchers need to control particles known as fast ions. These speedy ions, which are electrically charged hydrogen atoms, provide much of the self-heat ... more |
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Cascades of gas around young star indicate early stages of planet formationWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 What does a gestating baby planet look like? New research in Nature by a team including Carnegie's Jaehan Bae investigated the effects of three planets in the process of forming around a young star, ... more 
A flash and a shudder may reveal inner workings of starsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 In five billion years or so, when the Sun has used up the hydrogen in its core, it will inflate and turn into a red giant star. This phase of its life - and that of other stars up to twice its mass ... more 
WFIRST will add pieces to the dark matter puzzleGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 The true nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Scientists are trying to determine what exactly dark matter is made of so they can detect it directly, but our current ... more 
Hubble captures galaxies' ghostly gazeBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 When astronomers peer deep into space, they don't expect to find something staring back at them. In this new Hubble Space Telescope image, an uncanny pair of glowing eyes glares menacingly in our di ... more 
Placing another piece in the dark matter puzzleMainz, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued their search for dark matter within the framework of the "Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment" (or "CASPEr" for short). The CASPEr group conducts t ... more |
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 eRosita promise a breakthrough in our understanding of the energetic universe 
Discoveries from fusion to astrophysics at global gatheringPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 More than 155 researchers and students - the largest delegation from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in recent years - attended the 61st annual meeti ... more  |
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A star is born: Using lasers to study how star stuff is madeFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 On a typical day at the world's biggest laser, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, you can find scientists casually making star-like conditions using 192 high-powered lase ... more 
Gravity crystals: A new method for exploring the physics of white dwarf starsFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Grab a mixing bowl from your kitchen, throw in a handful of aluminum balls, apply some high voltage, and watch an elegant dance unfold where particles re-arrange themselves into a distinct "crystal" ... more  
Antarctic mist as frozen continent bursts into season of lightConcordia Research Station, Antarctic (ESA) Oct 30, 2019 As the Northern hemisphere tucks into longer nights, Antarctica bursts into its season of sunlight. After four months of night, the crew of Concordia research station, located on Dome C in the ... more 
Simulations explain giant exoplanets with eccentric, close-in orbitsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller pl ... more  
Numerous polar storms on Saturn analyzed by the UPV/EHU's Planetary Sciences GroupBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 Sanchez-Lavega's work appears under the title 'A complex storm system in Saturn's north polar atmosphere in 2018', and was produced in collaboration with Teresa del Rio-Gaztelurrutia, Jon Legarreta ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
The NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) and collaborating organizations SETI Institute, Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Collins Aerospace, and Ntention are announcing the successful field test of an "astronaut smart glove" for future human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The smart glove is a prototype for a human-machine interface (HuMI) that would allow astronauts to wireless ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
Reaction Engines, a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system, claims a breakthrough in aerospace engine technology by developing ultra-lightweight heat exchangers. Such heat exchangers prevent engine components from overheating at high flight speeds.
The company's Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 
Mars Express, the European Space Agency's (ESA) first planetary mission, is a true marathon runner among spacecraft. Launched on 2 June 2003, the spacecraft arrived at Mars during the night of 25 December that same year.
On 26 October 2019, this spacecraft completed its twenty-thousandth orbit around Mars. Mars Express is in good company in Martian orbit: NASA's Mars 2001 Odyssey and Mars ... more |
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 Xiamen (XNA) Oct 30, 2019 
China plans to launch four new science satellite missions by 2023, and scientists have completed concept research on another five to be launched in the next 10 years.
Successful Chinese science satellites launched since 2015 include the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) and the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). These were under a sp ... more |
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 Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
ESA and the French space agency CNES have signed an important agreement that will see the two agencies improve interoperability between their mission control facilities on ground, enhancing the abilities of each organisation in space.
The European 'Network of Operations Centres' will enable opportunities for joint action, knowledge sharing and technical interchange, and allow engineers and ... more |
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 Goleta CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
Las Cumbres Observatory is one of nine organizations jointly awarded a $2.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (SCIMMA).
Multi-messenger astrophysics combines observations of light, gravitational waves, and particles to understand some of the most extreme events in the ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
An exoplanet may seem like the perfect spot to set up housekeeping, but before you go there, take a closer look at its star. Rice University astrophysicists are doing just that, building a computer model to help judge how a star's own atmosphere impacts its planets, for better or worse. By narrowing the conditions for habitability, they hope to refine the search for potentially habitable planets ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 
NASA has funded Southwest Research Institute to study the important attributes, feasibility and cost of a possible future Pluto orbiter mission. This study will develop the spacecraft and payload design requirements and make preliminary cost and risk assessments for new technologies.
The study is one of 10 different mission studies that NASA is sponsoring to prepare for the next Planetary ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) Oct 29, 2019 
A multi-billion dollar hydro-electric power plant on the Mekong river in Laos was officially switched on Tuesday, as drone images of dried-up downstream areas stirred fresh outcry on one of the world's great rivers.
The Thai-owned Xayaburi dam has been a lightning rod for criticism even before construction began in 2012, with environmentalists warning of its devastating impact on the river's ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 
The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit.
The COps system will allow the Air Force to operationally command and control the new, more powerful GPS III satellites as well as legacy GPS satellites currently in the constellation. T ... more |
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 Xiamen, China (XNA) Oct 29, 2019 
China is carrying out in-depth demonstration and long-term planning for its manned lunar exploration, and has formed an overall consensus and a preliminary plan, according to a senior space engineer.
At the 1st China Space Science Assembly held in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province, from Oct. 25 to Oct. 28, Chen Shanguang, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, said the f ... more |
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 Columbia SC (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
A controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans is gaining traction from research sites around the world.
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, controversial from the time it was presented in 2007, proposes that an asteroid or comet hit the Ea ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2019  On 23 October 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the U.S. company Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) will announce the start of routine operations for the 'DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer' (DESIS).
This instrument will be operated by DLR and TBE. It is the most powerful hyperspectral Earth observation instrument in orbit and addresse ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 
A previously unobserved mechanism is at work in the Sun's rotating plasma: a magnetic instability, which scientists had thought was physically impossible under these conditions. The effect might even play a crucial role in the formation of the Sun's magnetic field, say researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Leeds and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019 
Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger.
The element, strontium, was found in the spectra emanating from the neutron star merger GW170817. Scientists detailed the discovery in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Gravitational wave machines first picked up the signal produced by GW170817 in 2017 ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
The origin of the universe started with the Big Bang, but how the supernova explosion ignited has long been a mystery - until now.
In a new paper appearing in Science Magazine, researchers detailed the mechanisms that could cause the explosion, which is key for the models that scientists use to understand the origin of the universe.
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