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China Receives Message From Dark Matter Probe
Dec 22, 2015Ground stations in China have received data sent by "Wukong" -- the country's first dark matter probe satellite, scientists announced Monday. A station in Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang successfully tracked and received data from ...
Tags: Dark Matter Probe
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China Launches Country's First Dark Matter Satellite
Dec 18, 2015China sents into space the country's first Dark Matter Particle Explorer Satellite on Thursday. [Photo: weibo.com] China on Thursday sent into space the country's first space telescope in a fresh search for signals of dark matter, ...
Tags: Dark Matter, Satellite, DAMPE
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A New Lego Nasa Hubble Space Telescope Could Be Coming in to Focus
Sep 5, 2014The project has received 10,000 supporters and will now make the giant leap to review stage. A new LEGO NASA Hubble Space Telescope could be coming in to focus as the project reaches 10,000 supporters on the fan site, LEGO Ideas. One ...
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2014 Marked The One-Year Point Since NEOSSat Was Successfully Launched Into Outer Space
Aug 13, 2014Boyd Coatings Research Co., Inc. was selected to strategically coat and laminate a suitcase-sized microsatellite that orbits the Earth searching for near-earth asteroids and “space junk" that are difficult to spot using ground-based ...
Tags: NEOSSat, success, Construction
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Kepler Has Unveiled a Whole New Side of Our Galaxy
Mar 11, 2014Five years ago today, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable ...
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Evan Skillman and Kristen McQuinn Have Discovered a Priceless Relic of The Big Bang
Feb 27, 2014Using one of the world's premier telescopes, University of Minnesota astrophysicists Evan Skillman and Kristen McQuinn have discovered a priceless relic of the Big Bang in the Milky Way's back yard. They are part of an international team ...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Has Passed Its First Significant Mission Milestone 2014
Feb 10, 2014(Phys.org) —NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014—a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope's power, communications and pointing control ...
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Scientists Using The Herschel Space Observatory Have Made The First Definitive Detection
Jan 22, 2014Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thought to shoot up periodically from Ceres ...
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A Stunning Hubble Space Telescope Image of The Colorful 30 Doradus Nebula
Jan 10, 2014A stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful 30 Doradus Nebula, a giant star-forming region, is the focal point of an eBook on stellar evolution aimed at children with visual impairments, ages 10 to 12. The book is called "Reach ...
Tags: Hubble Space Telescope image, 30 Doradus Nebula, stellar evolution, eBook
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Gemini Planet Imager's First Light Image of Beta Pictoris B
Jan 8, 2014Gemini Planet Imager's first light image of Beta Pictoris b, a planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star, Beta Pictoris, is blocked in this image by a mask so its light doesn't interfere with the light of the planet. In addition to ...
Tags: Gemini Planet Imager, image faint planets, exoplanet camera
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Direct Evidence of a Supernova's Dust-Making Capabilities
Jan 7, 2014Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in the early Universe. Direct evidence of a supernova's dust-making capabilities, however, has been slim and cannot account ...
Tags: supernovas, dust-making, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
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The First of a Set of Unprecedented, Super-Deep Views of The Universe
Jan 7, 2014The first of a set of unprecedented, super-deep views of the universe from an ambitious collaborative program called The Frontier Fields is being released today at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. ...
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Astronomers Discovered a System of Two White Dwarf Stars and a Superdense Neutron Star
Jan 6, 2014Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's orbit around the ...
Tags: unique stellar system, nature of gravity, gravitational interactions
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Weather Forecasters on Exoplanet GJ 1214b Would Have an Easy Job
Jan 2, 2014Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today's forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ...
Tags: exoplanet GJ 1214b, weather forecast, super-Earth class planet, Hubble
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Asteroids Whose Orbits Bring Them Close to The Earth's Orbit Are Called Near Earth Objects
Dec 30, 2013Asteroids (or comets) whose orbits bring them close to the earth's orbit are called near Earth objects. Some of them are old, dating from the origins of the solar system about four and one-half billion years ago, and expected to be rich in ...
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