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‘Cool’ brown dwarf star discovered. by New Scientist: Y dwarfs are the coldest class of brown dwarfs, star-like bodies that are too low-mass to fuse hydrogen in their cores. These “failed stars” don’t burn the way stars like our sun do, meaning they do not emit visible wavelengths that most telescopes can spot. Six of … Read more
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Last space shuttle comes home, ends 30-year era. by Google News: Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station in triumph Thursday, bringing an end to NASA’s 30-year shuttle journey with one last, rousing touchdown that drew cheers and tears. A record crowd of 2,000 gathered near the landing strip, thousands more packed … Read more
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Atlantis takes off. Watch it again and again. by Russia Today: Atlantis has blasted off on NASA’s last space shuttle launch. The historic liftoff occurred Friday morning, 30 years and three months after the very first shuttle flight. Four astronauts are riding Atlantis to orbit. The shuttle is bound for the International Space Station, making one … Read more
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‘Vampire stars’ found in heart of Milky Way. by National Geographic: Called blue stragglers, these cannibal stars have been spotted in other parts of the Milky Way. They seem to lag in age next to the other stars with which they formed—appearing hotter, and thus younger and bluer. Astronomers suspect blue stragglers look so youthful because … Read more
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NASA builds aircraft for deep space. by PC World: NASA will bring a beloved arcade game to life in 2014 when it deploys an unmanned spacecraft capable of busting up asteroids. OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be equipped with a robotic arm built to pluck samples from a near-Earth asteroid designated 1999 RQ36 when it reaches its … Read more
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NASA’s Image of the Day. The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy’s close proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among the stars, make it an ideal laboratory to research … Read more
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6.6 billion solar mass Black hole discovered. by Daily Galaxy: The black hole at the center of the supergiant elliptical galaxy fifty million light-years away is the most massive black hole for which a precise mass has been measured -6.6 billion solar masses. Orbiting the galaxy is an abnormally large population of about 12,000 globular … Read more
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Surgeon prints new kidney on stage. by Physorg: A surgeon specializing in regenerative medicine on Thursday “printed” a real kidney using a machine that eliminates the need for donors when it comes to organ transplants. “It’s like baking a cake,” Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine said as he cooked up … Read more
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Shift in magnetic pole. by Sun Sentinel: Magnetic north, the point at the top of the Earth that determines compass headings, is shifting its position at a rate of about 40 miles per year. In geologic terms, it’s racing from the Arctic Ocean near Canada toward Russia. As a result, everyone who uses a compass, … Read more
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‘Anti-laser’ built for first time by New Scientist: An anti-laser – which absorbs light rather than emitting it – has been built for the first time. A laser shines by producing a cascade of photons that bounce around inside a light-amplifying material before exiting from one or both ends. In 2010,Douglas Stone at Yale University … Read more
