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  Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Rethinking the formation and growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), key contributors to harmful soot particles formed during fuel combustion and the smallest dust grains in interstellar matter, is helping KAUST researchers to develop greener and more efficient combustion processes, while also shedding light on interstellar evolution. Several pathways are proposed to explain how these large organic molecules form. These typically involve a cascade of chemical reactions that assist in re ... read more |
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Hubble gives unprecedented, early view of a doomed star's destructionBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Like a witness to a violent death, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently gave astronomers an unprecedented, comprehensive view of the first moments of a star's cataclysmic demise. Hubble's data, co ... more  
Astronomers provide 'Field Guide' to Exoplanets known as Hot JupitersTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Hot Jupiters - giant gas planets that race around their host stars in extremely tight orbits - have become a little bit less mysterious thanks to a new study combining theoretical modeling with obse ... more 
New galaxy images reveal a fitful start to the UniverseNottingham UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 New images have revealed detailed clues about how the first stars and structures were formed in the Universe and suggest the formation of the Galaxy got off to a fitful start. An international team ... more 
NEID Spectrometer Lights Up Path to Exoplanet ExplorationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2021 As NASA expands its quest to discover exoplanets - planets beyond our solar system - it also grows its toolbox. Over the summer, a new tool called NEID (pronounced NOO-id) delivered its first batch ... more |
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Astronomers see white dwarf switch on and offDurham UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2021 White dwarfs are what most stars become after burning off the hydrogen that fuels them. Now our astronomers have seen one of these galactic objects switching on and off for the first time. Res ... more 
Dwarf galaxy catches globular clusterAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 19, 2021 Astronomers already knew that our own Milky Way grew by taking in smaller galaxies. But now a team of Italian-Dutch researchers have shown that a small galaxy neighbouring the Milky Way has in turn ... more 
NASA selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way evolutionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2021 NASA has selected a new space telescope proposal that will study the recent history of star birth, star death, and the formation of chemical elements in the Milky Way. The gamma-ray telescope, calle ... more  
New spin on space researchParis (ESA) Oct 07, 2021 The ESA-owned Short Arm Human Centrifuge has been upgraded, installed and inaugurated at the Olympic Sport Centre Planica facility near Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Soon to be home to ESA bedrest studie ... more  
IU physicists lead world's most precise measurement of neutron lifetimeBloomington IN (SPX) Oct 18, 2021 An international team of physicists led by researchers at Indiana University has announced the world's most precise measurement of the neutron's lifetime. The scientific purpose of the experim ... more |
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Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regionsBoston MA (SPX) Oct 18, 2021 In the early solar system, a "protoplanetary disk" of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today. A new analysis of ancient meteorites by scien ... more 
NASA scientist looks to AI, lensing to find masses of free-floating planetsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 07, 2021 Exoplanet hunters have found thousands of planets, most orbiting close to their host stars, but relatively few alien worlds have been detected that float freely through the galaxy as so-called rogue ... more 
Process leading to supernova explosions and cosmic radio bursts unearthed at PPPLPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 07, 2021 A promising method for producing and observing on Earth a process important to black holes, supernova explosions and other extreme cosmic events has been proposed by scientists at Princeton Universi ... more 
First planet to orbit 3 Stars discoveredLas Vegas NV (SPX) Oct 05, 2021 In a distant star system - a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth - UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars. Unlike our solar system, ... more 
ESA and Mattel's Barbie in zero-gParis (ESA) Oct 05, 2021 ESA and Mattel have released a Samantha Cristoforetti Barbie doll to coincide with World Space Week 2021 and its theme of 'Women in Space', to help encourage girls to become the next generation of a ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 
New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther and farther from Earth and the Sun. Our team has been extremely busy since I last wrote in the spring. One of the most important activities since then has been ground testing, uploading and flight-testing new software for our Alice ultraviolet spectrometer and our main (Command and Da ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2021 
Astronomers at Queen's University Belfast have launched a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for extrasolar planets.
The online citizen project, hosted by Zooniverse.org, Planet Hunters Next-Generation Transit Search (NGTS), is enlisting the help of the public to examine five years' worth of digital footage showing some of the brightest stars i ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2021 
The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is ready for a short Martian flight as early as Saturday to test summer weather conditions that have arrived at its location on the Red Planet after two weeks of no communication because of blockage by the sun.
The flight, Ingenuity's 14th, is brief and simple by design. As weather at Jezero Crater gets warmer, the aircraft's rotors must turn faster to achi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2021 
The first lunar rocks brought back to Earth in decades show the Moon was volcanically active more recently than previously thought, Chinese scientists said Tuesday.
A Chinese spacecraft carried lunar rocks and soil to Earth last year - humanity's first mission in four decades to collect samples from the Moon, and a milestone for Beijing's growing space programme.
The samples included ba ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2021 
White dwarfs are what most stars become after burning off the hydrogen that fuels them. Now our astronomers have seen one of these galactic objects switching on and off for the first time.
Researchers used a planet-hunting satellite to observe the unique phenomenon in a white dwarf about 1,400 light years from Earth.
This particular white dwarf is known to be accreting, or feeding, f ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 25, 2021 
Earth observation provides a wealth of information to benefit our daily lives. As the demand for satellite data grows to address the challenges of climate change and a growing population, ESA, under the leadership of the European Commission, along with its key European partners, are developing high precision digital models of Earth to monitor and simulate both natural and human activity, to enab ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 
In the heavens above, it's raining dirt. Every second, millions of pieces of dirt that are smaller than a grain of sand strike Earth's upper atmosphere. At about 100 kilometers altitude, bits of dust, mainly debris from asteroid collisions, zing through the sky vaporizing as they go 10 to 100 times the speed of a bullet. The bigger ones can make streaks in the sky, meteors that take our breath a ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2021 
Our corner of the universe, the solar system, is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars. The solar system is encased in a bubble called the heliosphere, which separates us from the vast galaxy beyond - and some of its harsh space radiation.
We're protected from that radiation by the heliosphere, which itself is created by another source of radiation: the S ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 19, 2021 
China's landmark six-month journey in space has left many curious about the differences between male and female astronauts.
Wang Yaping, a 41-year-old female astronaut from Shandong province in East China, became the first Chinese woman to enter China's space station after the trio settled inside the Tianhe core module last week.
"Astronauts need to meet high physical and emotional s ... more |
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Durham UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2021
White dwarfs are what most stars become after burning off the hydrogen that fuels them. Now our astronomers have seen one of these galactic objects switching on and off for the first time.
Researchers used a planet-hunting satellite to observe the unique phenomenon in a white dwarf about 1,400 light years from Earth.
This particular white dwarf is known to be accreting, or feeding, f ... more |
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 Ologa, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 6, 2021 
Desks at the only school in the impoverished Venezuelan fishing village of Ologa are piled one on top of the other in a dark and dusty room.
It has been four years since the classroom doors last opened at this remote school on the shores of Lake Maracaibo in the country's western Zulia state, and now the paint is peeling off the walls.
And while the government has announced the reopening ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Oct 19, 2021 
Their movie props floated around and they used Velcro to keep objects in place but Russia's first film crew in space said they were delighted with the result and had "shot everything we planned".
Yulia Peresild, one of Russia's most glamorous actresses, and film director Klim Shipenko returned to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting the fir ... more |
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 Abisko, Sweden (AFP) Oct 25, 2021 
Sheltered by snow-spattered mountains, the Stordalen mire is a flat, marshy plateau, pockmarked with muddy puddles. A whiff of rotten eggs wafts through the fresh air.
Here in the Arctic in Sweden's far north, about 10 kilometres (six miles) east of the tiny town of Abisko, global warming is happening three times faster than in the rest of the world.
On the peatland, covered in tufts of ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 21, 2021 
Explorer, inventor, filmmaker, environmentalist and once even an oil prospector: the complicated journey of Jacques Cousteau is laid bare in a new film about one of the world's most famous Frenchmen.
"Becoming Cousteau," which hits theaters in the United States this Friday, traces the extraordinary life of the man through archive footage and interviews, and was compiled by double-Oscar nomin ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2021 
New methods of detecting ultra-low frequency gravitational waves can be combined with other, less sensitive measurements to deliver fresh insights into the early development of our universe, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham.
Gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of Einstein's spacetime - that cross the universe at the speed of light have all sorts of wavelengt ... more |
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