Thursday 15 June 2017

Icy Moons, Galaxy Clusters, and Distant Worlds Among Selected Targets for James Webb Space Telescope



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http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-28

*Ring, Ring* 'Earth? It's space calling, on the quantum line'

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Scientists report the successful transmission of entangled photons between suborbital space and Earth.
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Shortcut to satellite-based quantum encryption network

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Researchers demonstrate ground-based measurements of quantum states sent by a laser aboard a satellite 38,000 kilometers above Earth.
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Orion blazing bright in radio light

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Astronomers have created the largest image ever of the dense band of star-forming gas that weaves its way through the northern portion of the Orion Nebula.
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New chemical method could revolutionize graphene

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Scientists have discovered a new chemical method that enables graphene to be incorporated into a wide range of applications while maintaining its ultra-fast electronics.
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Red Sprites over the Channel

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Mysterious and incredibly brief, red sprites are seen to occur high above large thunderstorms on planet Earth. While they have been recorded from low Earth orbit or high flying airplanes, these dancing, lightning-like events were captured in video frames from a mountain top perch in northern France. Taken during the night of May 28, the remarkably clear, unobstructed view looks toward a multicell storm system raging over the English Channel about 600 kilometers away. Lasting only a few milliseconds, the red sprite association with thunderstorms is known. Still, much remains a mystery about the fleeting apparitions including the nature of their relation to other upper atmospheric lightning phenomena such as blue jets or satellite detected terrestrial gamma flashes.

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CERN’s American sibling Fermilab turns 50

Call for media: Last chance to view ESA’s Mercury Explorer BepiColombo

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Media representatives are invited to a briefing on BepiColombo, ESA and JAXA’s joint mission to Mercury, and to view the spacecraft before it leaves for Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, for launch next year.  


via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Call_for_media_Last_chance_to_view_ESA_s_Mercury_Explorer_BepiColombo

Graphene encapsulation provides unprecedented view of diffusion and rotation of fullerene molecule

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Scientists have created a new structure by encapsulating a single layer of fullerene molecules between two graphene sheets. Buckyball sandwiches combine fullerenes and graphene. This structure allows to study the dynamics of the trapped molecules down to atomic resolution using scanning transmission electron microscopy. They report observing diffusion of individual molecules confined in the two-dimensional space and even find evidence for the rotation of isolated fullerenes within the structure.
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