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New theoretical work shows that gas-giant planet formation can occur around binary stars in much the same way that it occurs around single stars like the Sun. The work is presented by Dr. Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) at the American Astronomica...
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The Moon's soil is impregnated with nitrogen that came from Earth's atmosphere, according to Japanese scientists.
The researchers, giving a new interpretative spin on analysis of lunar soil brought home by the Apollo missions, believe that the nitrogen escaped from Earth's upper atmosphere...
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Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. Movies of...
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The 'Great Dying'
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Astronomy Rewind
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With Astronomy Rewind, Citizen Scientists Will Bring Zombie Astrophotos Back to Life A new citizen-science project will rescue tens of thousands of potentially valuable cosmic images that are mostly dead to science and bring them fully back to life. Called Astronomy Rewind, the effort, which la...
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WASP-12b
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An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these other worlds, some of which are quite exotic. The system is expected to rev...
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Guizhou Radio Telescope
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The Guizhou Provincial Development and Reform Commission on Monday announced that it will launch the world's largest single-aperture spherical radio telescope as one of the state's key sci-tech infrastructure projects in the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in south Guizhou Province. The...
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Mars - more water
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By using new, high spatial resolution infrared data from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, Victoria Hamilton from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Philip Christensen from Arizona State University have concluded that a region on the surface of Mars known to contain olivine-rich rocks...
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SOPHIE spectrograph
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Title: The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets - XII. Three giant planets suitable for astrometric mass determination with Gaia Author: Javiera Rey, Guillaume Hébrard, François Bouchy, Vincent Bourrier, Isabelle Boisse, Nuno C. Santos, Luc Arnold, Nicola Astudillo-Defru, Xavier...
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Evolution of the atmosphere
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The President of the Mineralogical Society of America, Douglas Rumble, III, of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, describes new techniques, used on minerals, to reveal the steps that led to evolution of the atmosphere on Earth.
"Rocks, fossils, and other natural relics h...
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SETIBURST
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Title: SETIBURST: A Robotic, Commensal, Realtime Multi-Science Backend for the Arecibo Telescope Author: Jayanth Chennamangalam, David MacMahon, Jeff Cobb, Aris Karastergiou, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Kaustubh Rajwade, Wes Armour, Vishal Gajjar, Duncan R. Lorimer, Maura A. McLaughlin, Dan We...
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Omega Centauri
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Title: A Spitzer Space Telescope Atlas of omega Centauri: The Stellar Population, Mass Loss, and the Intracluster Medium Authors: Martha L. Boyer (1), Iain McDonald (2), Jacco Th. van Loon (2), Charles E. Woodward (1), Robert D. Gehrz (1), A. Evans (2), A. K. Dupree (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy...
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The Pierre Auger observatory
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An international science group Tuesday chose Colorado, US, as the site of a $50 million observatory to measure the cosmic rays that continually bombard the Earth.
The Pierre Auger Collaboration said the observatory — a 40-mile-by-40-mile array of remotely monitored sensors — will b...
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists thinks it has an answer to a long-standing mystery of why the permanent icecap on Mars' South Pole is offset from the pole itself. Simply put, it's colder and stormier in that hemisphere.
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POLAR NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY TAKES A BIG STEP FORWARD An international team of scientists and engineers has taken a major step toward completion of what will be the world's preeminent cosmic neutrino observatory, harnessing a sophisticated hot-water drill to build an observatory under t...
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