Big Sunspot Crackling With Flares and Radio Bursts
Huge sunspot AR1476 is crackling with M-class solar flares and appears to be on the verge of producing something even stronger. The sunspot’s ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field…
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Europe Delivers MIRI – the First Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope
The first instrument to be completed for the James Webb Space Telescope, MIRI, was handed over by the European consortium that built it to ESA at…
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Spitzer Space Telescope Detects Light Emanating From a “Super-Earth”
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a “super-Earth” planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable,…
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Water Droplets Dance on the Space Station
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA has taught more than half a million internet viewers how microgravity affects scientific principles by using everyday objects…
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Mars Express Sees Signs of Flowing Water on Ancient Mars
ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of a region on the Red Planet that appears to have been sculpted in part by flowing liquid. This again…
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Extra Large “Super Moon” to Be Visible on May 5th-6th
The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night…
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ESA to Launch Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moons
Jupiter’s icy moons are the focus of Europe’s next large science mission, ESA announced today. The Jupiter Icy moons Explorer – JUICE – was selected over…
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Black Hole Spotted Shredding a Star
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based…
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory Sees Remarkable Outburst From Old Black Hole in M83
An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The…
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NASA Researchers Conclude Giant Asteroids Hit Earth Billions of Years Ago
Research by NASA and international scientists concludes giant asteroids, similar or larger than the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs, hit Earth billions of years…
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