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U of Louisiana-Lafayette mini-satellite zipping around Earth
A cubical satellite small enough to sit on the palm of your hand is zipping around the world and sending data about radiation to the Louisiana students who designed and built it.
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The seven rocky planets of TRAPPIST-1 seem to have very similar compositions
The red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is home to the largest group of roughly Earth-size planets ever found in a single stellar system. Located about 40 light-years away, these seven rocky siblings provide an example of the tremendous ...
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2021
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The largest-ever catalog of gravitational waves released
One of humankind's greatest achievements was made on 14th Sept 2015 when the first direct detection of a gravitational wave event was made using the aLIGO observatories in Washington State and Louisana in the U.S.
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2021
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Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer
The Sun's extremely hot outer layer, the corona, has a very different chemical composition from the cooler inner layers, but the reason for this has puzzled scientists for decades.
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2021
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Astronomers discover first cloudless, Jupiter-like planet
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The findings were published this month in the Astrophysical ...
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2021
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SpaceX to send TU Dresden satellite into space
TU Dresden's SOMP2b satellite will be lifted into orbit by SpaceX on January 22, 2021. It will be used to investigate new nanomaterials under the extreme conditions of space, to test systems for converting the sun's heat ...
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2021
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Astronomers unmask cosmic eruptions in nearby galaxies
A brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system on April 15, triggering many space-based instruments, including those aboard NASA and European missions. Now, multiple international science teams conclude ...
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2021
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Iodine thruster could slow space junk accumulation
For the first time ever, a telecommunications satellite has used an iodine propellant to change its orbit around Earth.
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2021
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The Very Large Array: Astronomical shapeshifter
When the Very Large Array was completed forty years ago, it was a different kind of radio telescope. Rather than having a single antenna dish, the VLA has 27. The data these antennas gather is combined in such a way that ...
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2021
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Scientists find black holes could reach 'stupendously large' sizes
A recent study suggests the possible existence of 'stupendously large black holes' or SLABS, even larger than the supermassive black holes already observed in the centers of galaxies.
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2021
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Solar system formation in two steps
An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford, LMU Munich, ETH Zurich, BGI Bayreuth, and the University of Zurich discovered that a two-step formation process of the early Solar System can explain the ...
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2021
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Astronomers estimate Titan's largest sea is 1,000-feet deep
Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell University astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000-feet deep near its center—enough ...
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2021
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Much of Earth's nitrogen was locally sourced
Where did Earth's nitrogen come from? Rice University scientists show one primordial source of the indispensable building block for life was close to home.
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2021
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Juno maps water ice across northern Ganymede
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest planetary satellite in the solar system. It's also one of the most intriguing: Ganymede is the only moon with its own magnetic field, it is the most differentiated of all moons, and ...
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2021
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Rocks show Mars once felt like Iceland
Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3 billion years ago.
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2021
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Astronomers see whirlwind around possible exoplanet in the making
An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has discovered a whirlwind of dust and debris in orbit around a young star. It is possible that a planet is forming within the debris. The scientists ...
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2021
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Oldest carbonates in the solar system
A meteorite that fell in northern Germany in 2019 contains carbonates which are among the oldest in the solar system; it also evidences the earliest presence of liquid water on a minor planet. The high-resolution Ion Probe—a ...
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2021
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NASA mission to test technology for satellite swarms
A NASA mission slated for launch on Friday will place three tiny satellites into low-Earth orbit, where they will demonstrate how satellites might track and communicate with each other, setting the stage for swarms of thousands ...
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2021
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3-D printing to pave the way for moon colonization
A research team from the Skoltech Center for Design, Manufacturing and Materials (CDMM) comprising 2nd year Ph.D. student Maxim Isachenkov, Senior Research Scientist Svyatoslav Chugunov, Professor Iskander Akhatov, and Professor ...
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2021
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Physicist proposes human-populated mega-satellite orbiting Ceres
Physicist Pekka Janhunen with the Finnish Meteorological Institute has developed a novel idea to colonize a place other than the Earth—and it is not the moon or Mars. Instead, Janhunen is suggesting in a paper posted on ...
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