Monday 10 June 2013

Scientists size up universe's most lightweight dwarf galaxy with Keck Observatory

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This image shows a standard prediction for the dark matter distribution within about 1 million light years of the Milky Way galaxy, which is expected to be swarming with thousands of small dark matter clumps called `halos'. The scale of this image is ...

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Asteroid-Mining Company Hires Former White House Official

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The billionaire-backed asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources has hired Peter Marquez, who served as director of space policy under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, company officials announced today (June 10). As Planetary Resources' ...

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First female cosmonaut volunteers for a one-way trip to Mars

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As advances in space tourism make a Mars settlement increasingly more realistic, a ground-breaking cosmonaut has stepped forward to voice a desire to help push the dream forward. Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut, recently admitted that ...

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NASA Awards Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract

NASA has selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide safety and mission assurance engineering support services for the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Google Buys Quantum Computer for Artificial Intelligence ... - Reddit

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Two years ago the words "Quantum computer" would have made me go "pfft, ... so-called quantum computers are purported to be using quantum mechanics to ...

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Simple theory may explain mysterious dark matter | Science Codex

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Most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles that possess an unusual, donut-shaped electromagnetic field called an anapole.

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PRISM mining UFO data, targets false flag ET invasion as pretext to space wars

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New analysis of Edward Snowden's June 9, 2013, interview with the U.K. Guardian newspaper reveals how the self-described NSA surveillance program whistleblower harbors unconscious concerns about PRISM being used to mine online UFO and ET ...

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Justin Bieber Booked Flight to Space

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The Scaled Composites Model 339, or SpaceShipTwo, is a suborbital spaceplane designed for future space tourism developed by Virgin Galactic. It was officially revealed in California in March 2007 and had successfully completed its series of test ...

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NASA Announces 2013 Space Technology Research Grants

NASA has selected 65 graduate students as the 2013 class of Space Technology Research Fellows.

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SpaceXC in Wired UK + Export control roadblocks to space tourism

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3-D printer from Made in Space to go to the ISS. An announcement from NASA and Made in Space: Another American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in ...

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Space science image of the week: The Pinwheel Galaxy, by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope

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Justin Bieber is planning to become an astronaut with Virgin Galactic

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NewKerala.com reported on June 8, 2013, Justin Bieber to visit space? It has been rumored that Justin Bieber has paid $250,000 for a ticket to travel to space in Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism program, which will begin next year.

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Tourists choose green space over museums and castles

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Research carried out by Visit Britain shows that 36% of all visitors are likely to enjoy our green space, placing it just behind going to the pub, eating out and shopping. Of the 31 million people who tend to visit Britain each year, around a third ...

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Miracle material: the graphene revolution

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Too modest to boast about the fact that in 2010, along with Andre Geim, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for isolating an atom-thick layer of carbon known as graphene – something that has been described as a 'miracle material' that will transform the ...

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Astronomers catch 10-metre asteroid trying to sneak past Earth

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Asteroid 2013 LR6, a hunk of space rock roughly the size of your average garbage truck, made its closest approach to Earth at 12:42 a.m. EDT Saturday morning, coming within about 105,000 kms of the planet, which is roughly one-third the distance from ...

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