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Xenon - a colourless, odourless gas which makes up less than one billionth of the volume of Earth's atmosphere - might hold the key to answer a long-standing question about comets: did they contribute to the delivery of material to our planet when the Solar System was taking shape, some 4.6 billion years ago?
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[09.06.2017 17:28]
Don't Let an Old Myth Prevent Your Child from Seeing the Solar Eclipse.
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In Joe Rao's "Looking Up!: The Science of Stargazing," illustrated by Mark Borgions, children learn how to safely view the 2017 total solar eclipse. Credit: Simon Spotlight
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Potential building block of life found in very young star system.
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Two teams of researchers report today that they have detected a prebiotic molecule—a potential building block of life—around newly formed sun-like stars.
(sciencenow.sciencemag.org) |
Earth Faces an Increased Risk of Being Hit by an Asteroid, Astronomers Warn.
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Artist's illustration depicting a massive asteroid impact on Earth. Credit: NASA/Don Davis.
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MIT Students Design Mission to Huge Asteroid Apophis.
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MIT students Jeremy Stroming, Tori Wuthrich and Nicholas James inspect stony and iron meteorites. Credit: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering.
(www.space.com) |
A Planet That Is Hotter Than Most Stars.
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A newly discovered Jupiter-like world is so hot, it's being vaporized by its own star.
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We’ve just found the hottest planet ever.
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This gas giant gives “hot Jupiter” a whole new meaning.
(www.astronomy.com) |
Asteroid Hunter NEOWISE Makes Many New Discoveries.
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NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously unknown celestial objects in the last year.
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Companies, Lawyers Argue Against Changing Outer Space Treaty.
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Companies planning non-traditional space activities, like lunar landers, argued at a hearing against seeking changes to the Outer Space Treaty. Shown here, an artist's concept of the private MX-1 lunar lander by Moon Express. Credit: Moon Express.
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MIT students propose Apophis asteroid mission.
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After working hard to design a spacecraft, the students presented their ideas to NASA scientists.
(www.astronomy.com) |
The Great Comet Designers Explain Their Favorite Creations.
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Step inside the minds of the people who turned a Broadway stage into an immersive Russian masterpiece.
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David Eicher joins Lowell Observatory Board.
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Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, is one of the oldest and most distinguished observatories in the United States, and is world famous for its unique blend of history and modern research.
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Is it time to update the Outer Space Treaty?
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“I don’t want to start by making decisions before we hear testimony and before we think through it,” Cruz said of potential treaty changes.
(www.thespacereview.com) |
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over.
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Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission.
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Pierre Favre wird achtzig Ein Schlagzeug kann auch singen.
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Pierre Favre hat das Schlagzeug von der blossen Begleitung befreit und sich als Rhythmus-Poet profiliert. Der Musiker, der am 2. Juni achtzig wird, hat so Generationen von Trommlern beeinflusst.
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Den grøne tråden.
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Barnehagane og skulane i Gloppen kommune, Sogn og Fjordane, har gått saman om eit prosjekt for å løfte fram klima, miljø og berekraftig utvikling som tema i heile opplæringsløpet i kommunen: Vi ynskjer å nøste ein grøn tråd frå barnehage, gjennom barneskule og ungdomskule, til vidaregåande skule.
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Finds New Evidence of Frost on Moon's Surface.
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Scientists using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, have identified bright areas in craters near the moon's south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on the surface.
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Asteroid Collision May Have Tipped Saturn's Moon Enceladus.
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Image data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus may have tipped over, reorienting itself so that terrain closer to its original equator was relocated to the poles.
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Russia thinks microorganisms may be living outside the space station.
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Officials with Russia's space agency, Romoscos, say their scientists have identified plankton and other microorganisms among dust samples collected from the outside of the International Space Station.
(www.spacedaily.com) |
Total solar eclipse headlines summer astronomy in 2017.
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! As the weather warms and the temptation to spend more time outdoors grows, here are the top astronomical events to look for in our skies over the coming season.
(weather.msn.com) |
Star's Comet-Like Icy Debris Ring Captured in New Video, Images.
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A ring of icy debris in a young, nearby planetary system resembles comets found in our own solar system, new images reveal.
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NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid.
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Psyche, NASA's Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a planned arrival at the main belt asteroid in 2026 -- four years earlier than the original timeline.
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NASA’s mission to a planetary core has been moved up.
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The craft to Psyche will launch a year earlier and get to its target four years early.
(www.astronomy.com) |
High Fashion Meets Vintage NASA in New 'Coach Space' Collection.
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NASA is having a fashion moment.
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Orbital Details of Trappist-1's Least Understood Planet Confirmed.
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Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system that confirmed suspected details about the orbit of its outermost and least understood planet, TRAPPIST-1h.
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Rivers of Saturn's Moon Titan Reveal Mars-Like Evolution.
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Titan's Nile-like feature Vid Flumina, a network of steep-sided canyons filled with liquid hydrocarbons, is clearly visible un the upper left of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI.
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See a moving global view of Ceres at opposition.
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The intrepid Dawn craft soldiers on at the largest asteroid (or smallest official dwarf planet).
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To Get to Mars, NASA Must Convince Lawmakers.
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An illustration of a human Mars colony. To make human missions to Mars a reality, NASA will need to give lawmakers a compelling reason to support a crewed Red Planet mission. Credit: NASA.
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Variable Winds on Hot Giant Exoplanet Help Study of Magnetic Field.
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Senior Scientist Tamara M.
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Ancient Mars Impacts Created Tornado-like Winds That Scoured Surface.
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In looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large-impact craters on the planet's surface.
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Landtagswahl: NRW - ein Blick in die deutsche Zukunft.
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Der Bergbau bescherte Nordrhein-Westfalen einst relativen Wohlstand. Heute sind Fördertürme stillgelegt.
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Comet 67P Found to Be Producing Its Own Oxygen in Deep Space.
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A single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM.
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Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon.
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11 May 2017 If you could fly a CubeSat to the Moon, what could such a tiny satellite do there? ESA posed this question - and now four proposals will be studied in more detail for possible flight over the coming decade.
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Museum Honors 11 Deaf Men Who Helped NASA Send Humans to Space.
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Deaf participants in NASA's and the U.S.
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The wild wild worlds: a guide to the weirdest planets in the Milky Way.
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These are the most extreme planetary orbits in the universe.
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Buzz Aldrin to NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP to Reach Mars.
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NASA and its partner agencies should retire the International Space Station and focus on getting astronauts to Mars instead, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin said. Credit: NASA.
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SPACE on Ryder Farm Announces Plans for 2017 Season.
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The Great Comet 's Dave Malloy, The Wolves ' Sarah DeLappe, and more will be among this year's residents.
(www.theatermania.com) |
Explaining An Oxygen Mystery on Comets.
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Press Release - Source: CalTech Posted May 9, 2017 8:27 AM.
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A Gift from Halley’s Comet: The Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower in Photos.
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Eta Aquarids fireball and twin meteors over Half Dome, California.
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Comet 67P is making its own oxygen gas.
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A Caltech chemical engineering professor used his laboratory research to explain 67P’s oxygen atmosphere.
(www.astronomy.com) |
Patti LuPone Toasts Her 7th Tony Nomination — and Weighs In on New Broadway Talent.
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The Broadway icon and War Paint star talks about how to sustain a theater career for over 40 years.
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Tony nominees share the joy of being nominated.
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Theater professionals talk about the thrill of being nominated for their work on the stage. Rough Cut.
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Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower, Crumbs of Halley's Comet, Peaks This Weekend: What to Expect.
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The best time to see the 2017 Eta Aquarid meteor shower may be in the early morning hours on May 6. Shown here, a Perseid meteor near Bryce Canyon. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images.
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Old documents shine new light on NASA's plan to send a solar sail to Halley's Comet.
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In 1976, when Carl Berglund was almost 50 years old, a plan to send a spacecraft to Halley's Comet landed on his desk.
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Women make up just 15% of NASA’s planetary mission science teams. Here’s how the agency is trying to change that.
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Sometimes, change starts with a single sentence.
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Familiar Rings: Nearby Alien Solar System Looks Like Earth's.
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An artist's impression of the nearby Epsilon Eridani system with an asteroid belt-like debris disk scattered with rocky and icy bodies, along with the gas giant Epsilon Eridani b in the lower right. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook.
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Shock, thrill, excitement: Broadway stars react to their Tony nods.
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From shock to excitement, nominees for this year's Tony awards described their range of emotions when they found out they were recognized for their work on Broadway.
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Bette Midler and Josh Groban score Tony nominations.
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The actors earn nods for their work on the Broadway stage. Alicia Powell reports.
(www.reuters.com) |
Innovation Exchange - Fuel the future.
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The Innovation exchange - Fuel the future is organised in the frame of the unique ESA Grand Challenge Initiative.
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Nearby Epsilon Eridani Planetary System Is Similar to Our Own.
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Press Release - Source: USRA Posted May 2, 2017 4:22 PM.
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Hollywoodstars mit Chancen auf Theaterpreis Tony.
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Direkt aus dem dpa-Newskanal New York - Schauspielerin Sally Field, Entertainerin Bette Midler und Popklassiksänger Josh Groban können sich Hoffnungen auf den begehrtesten Theaterpreis der Welt machen.
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