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Spacewalking astronauts close to fixing cosmic ray detector
Spacewalking astronauts worked to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday and give it new life.
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US Space Force logo draws comparisons to 'Star Trek'
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Simulations reveal galaxy clusters details
Inspired by the science fiction of the spacefaring Romulans of Star Trek, astrophysicists have used XSEDE-allocated supercomputers to develop cosmological computer simulations called RomulusC, where the 'C' stands for galaxy ...
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TV provider shifting satellite to high orbit over explosion fears
US authorities said Friday they had granted permission to a TV provider to urgently lift a four-ton (3,600-kilogram) satellite to a so-called "graveyard orbit" over fears a battery fault may soon cause it to explode.
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NASA's Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst
NASA's Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star's face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting other astronomical transients—objects ...
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NESSI emerges as new tool for exoplanet atmospheres
The darkness surrounding the Hale Telescope breaks with a sliver of blue sky as the dome begins to open, screeching with metallic, sci-fi-like sounds atop San Diego County's Palomar Mountain. The historic observatory smells ...
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Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide
As well as providing global navigation services, Europe's Galileo satellite constellation is contributing to saving more than 2000 lives annually by relaying SOS messages to first responders. And from now on the satellites ...
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Jan 24, 2020
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New insights about the brightest explosions in the Universe
Swedish and Japanese researchers have, after ten years, found an explanation to the peculiar emission lines seen in one of the brightest supernovae ever observed—SN 2006gy. At the same time they found an explanation for ...
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Betelgeuse continues to dim, diminishes to 1.506 magnitude
Betelgeuse keeps getting dimmer, and everyone is wondering what exactly that means. The star will go supernova at the end of its life, but that's not projected to happen for tens of thousands of years or so. So what's causing ...
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Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in ancient star's atmosphere
An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of ...
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Astronomers investigate physical properties of the galaxy PGC 26218
By conducting spectroscopic observations, astronomers from China and Spain have investigated physical properties of a nearby lenticular galaxy known as PGC 26218. The new study provides more hints about the origin of starbursts ...
First space-baked cookies took two hours in experimental oven
The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space.
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How NASA's Webb Telescope will continue Spitzer's legacy
As one window to the universe closes, another will open with an even better view. Some of the same planets, stars and galaxies we first saw through the first window will appear in even sharper detail in the one that will ...
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Jan 23, 2020
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Second space data highway satellite set to beam
The second satellite in the European Data Relay System has reached its intended orbit and completed its in-orbit tests.
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Jan 23, 2020
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OSIRIS-REx completes closest flyover of sample site nightingale
Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's ...
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Jan 23, 2020
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Gravitational wave echoes may confirm Stephen Hawking's hypothesis of quantum black holes
Echoes in gravitational wave signals suggest that the event horizon of a black hole may be more complicated than scientists currently think.
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Astronomers find a way to form 'fast and furious' planets around tiny stars
New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought.
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The riddle of the heavenly bursts
This cosmic lightning storm is happening all around us. Somewhere in the earthly sky, there is a pulse that flashes and extinguishes in the next moment. These bursts, which must be measured with radio telescopes and last ...
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New models reveal inner complexity of Saturn moon
A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical reactions at its seafloor. ...
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