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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016



    Alien atmospheres recreated on Earth

    By Mary Halton
    Science reporter, BBC News
    9 March 2018


    Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes have a radius between one to four times that of Earth

    Researchers have recreated the chemistry of atmospheres on distant planets for the first
    time in the lab, according to two new papers. They found that hazes, such as the
    hydrocarbons that shroud Saturn's moon Titan, can be produced on a class of exoplanets
    known as super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.


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    UK will lead European exoplanet mission

    By Jonathan Amos
    BBC Science Correspondent...20/3/18

    A telescope to study the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System
    will be launched by the European Space Agency in the late 2020s.
    The mission, to be known as Ariel, was selected by the organisation's
    Science Programme Committee on Tuesday. The venture will be led
    scientifically from the UK by University College London astrophysicist
    Giovanna Tinetti.

    "In the next decade we will see many, many planets being discovered
    - thousands, actually," she said.

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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016



    Ghostly galaxy may be missing dark matter

    By Mary Halton
    Science reporter, BBC News
    28 March 2018



    Hubble image: The galaxy is so faint that other spiral galaxies can been seen through it

    An unusually transparent galaxy about the size of the Milky Way is prompting new questions
    for astrophysicists.The object, with the catchy moniker of NGC1052-DF2, appears to contain
    no dark matter.If this turns out to be true, it may be the first galaxy of its kind - made up
    only of ordinary matter. Currently, dark matter is thought to be essential to the fabric of the
    Universe as we understand it. The study is published in Nature.

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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016

    TESS: NASA on the hunt for new planets beyond our solar system



    Published on 16 Apr 2018

    Over 3700 exo planets have been discover of which 50 plus
    are Earth sized in the Goldilocks zone not to hot or cold....



    Nasa planet-hunter set for launch

    By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, Cape Canaveral
    16/4/18

    The US space agency is about to launch a telescope that should find
    thousands of planets beyond our Solar System.The Tess mission will
    go up on a Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida and survey
    nearly the entire sky over the course of the next two years. It will
    stare at stars, hoping to catch the dip in brightness as their faces
    are traversed by orbiting worlds.

    Tess will build a catalogue of nearby, bright stars and their planets
    that other telescopes can then follow up.

    read more...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43544205
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    NASA’s New Satellite TESS Will Look For Undiscovered Alien Worlds | Mach | NBC News
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amWoSSfzuiY
    Published on 16 Apr 2018
    TESS or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is scheduled to lift off from the
    Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, April 16, at 6:32 p.m. EDT.
    NASA’s hope its that it will help us finally find undiscovered worlds that could
    harbor extraterrestrial life.
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    Rolls-Royce and Boeing invest in UK space engine

    By Jonathan Amos
    BBC Science Correspondent
    12 April 2018


    Reaction Engines Limited (REL), the UK company developing a revolutionary
    aerospace engine, has announced investments from both Boeing and Rolls-Royce.

    read more....

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43732035
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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016

    Science Briefing for NASA's TESS Mission on SpaceX Falcon 9


    Published on 15 Apr 2018...( 54 mins seg )...
    Mission scientists take part in a science news conference for the TESS mission
    that SpaceX will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket for NASA.

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    Astronomers name mountains found on Pluto’s moon

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    Published on 16 Apr 2018
    Science experts have some exciting news about the farthest expanse of the solar
    system. The international astronomical union has announced official names for
    mountains on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, RT America’s Trinity Chavez reports.

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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016



    20/4/18

    Europe's Mars rover. Or rather,
    a copy of it.

    Short vid on link...read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43832868
    Airbus engineer Abbie Hutty gives a tour of the ExoMars
    rover test model.So, here it is.

    This is what they call the Structural Thermal Model, or STM.
    It is one of three rovers that will be built as part of the
    European Space Agency's ExoMars 2020 mission to search
    for life on the Red Planet. And, no, we're not sending all
    three to the Red Planet.

    read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43832868

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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016

    Gaia second data release

    European Space Agency, ESA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINs-JcNmKs
    Published on 25 Apr 2018
    The second data release of ESA’s Gaia mission has produced an extraordinary
    catalogue of over one and a half billion stars in our galaxy. Based on observations
    between July 2014 to May 2016, it includes the most accurate information yet on
    the positions, brightness, distance, motion, colour and temperature of stars in the
    Milky Way as well as information on asteroids and quasars.

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    Gaia telescope's 'book of the heavens' takes shape

    By Jonathan Amos
    BBC Science Correspondent
    25 April 2018



    The Gaia observatory has released a second swathe of data as it assembles
    the most precise map of the sky. The European Space Agency telescope
    has now plotted the position and brightness of nearly 1.7 billion stars.
    It also has information on the distance, motion and colour of 1.3 billion of
    these objects.

    Gaia's "book of the heavens" will not be complete until the 2020s, but when it
    is the map will underpin astronomy for decades to come. It will be the reference
    frame used to plan all observations by other telescopes. It will also be integral
    to the operation of all spacecraft, which navigate by tracking stars.

    But beyond that, Gaia promises a raft of new discoveries about the properties
    and structure of our Milky Way Galaxy, its history and evolution into the future.
    It will enable scientists to find new asteroids and planets; and to test physical
    constants and theories. Gaia should even refine the techniques used to measure
    distances across the wider Universe, and reduce the uncertainties we currently
    have about the age of the cosmos.


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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43900834
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    'Ground-breaking' galaxy collision detected

    By Mary Halton
    Science reporter, BBC News
    25 April 2018




    An artist's impression of the 14 galaxies detected

    Scientists have detected a cosmic "pileup" of galaxies in the early Universe.
    Imaged almost at the boundary of the observable Universe, the 14 unusually
    bright objects are on a collision course, set to form one massive galaxy.
    This will in turn serve as the core for a galaxy cluster, one of the most massive
    objects in the Universe.

    The catch? This all happened over 12 billion years ago.

    Looking this far across the Universe is essentially looking back in time, as the
    light has taken many billions of years to reach us.The galaxies would have been
    in their observed configuration when the Universe was a mere 1.4 billion years old.

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    Space Orbiter Reveals Stunning Images Of Martian Planet


    Published on 1 May 2018
    The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) which is part of the ExoMars program reveals
    its first color photo of Mars. The image shows an ice-coated rim of the Kovolev
    Crater. More of these photos will likely be coming as the TGO continues its
    search for methane gas. The project is led by The European Space Agency
    with assistance from the Russian Federal Space Agency. RT’S America
    Trinity Chavez has the report.


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    Prof Stephen Hawking's multiverse finale

    By Pallab Ghosh
    Science correspondent, BBC News
    2/5/18
    Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe
    may be one of many similar to our own.The theory resolves a cosmic
    paradox of the late physicist's own making.It also points a way forward
    for astronomers to find evidence of the existence of parallel universes.
    The study was submitted to the Journal of High-Energy Physics 10 days
    before Prof Hawking died.

    In the 1980s, the Cambridge scientist, along with US physicist James
    Hartle developed a new idea about the beginning of the Universe.
    This resolved a difficulty with Einstein's theory that suggested that the
    Universe began nearly 14 billion years ago but said nothing about how
    it began.

    Instead, the Hartle-Hawking idea used a different theory called quantum
    mechanics to explain how the Universe arose from nothingness.The idea
    tied up one loose end but created another - an infinite number some might
    say. As physicists analysed the idea it emerged that it carried with it the
    implication that the Big Bang would create not just one universe - but an
    endless supply


    Artwork: The Big Bang may have created many universes

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43976977

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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016

    Ancient Organics Discovered on Mars

    Published on 7 Jun 2018
    The Curiosity rover has discovered ancient organic molecules on Mars, embedded
    within sedimentary rocks that are billions of years old. News Release:
    https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight
    Center/Dan Gallagher.Graphics from the NASA-TV broadcast of this discovery are
    available at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12967

    Music provided by Killer Tracks: "Crystalline" by Enrico Cacace & Manuel
    Bandettini, "Based On True Events" by Eric Chevalier, "Mirrored Cubes" by Laurent
    Dury, "Lost In The Sky" by Matthews Samar
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    NASA has discovered ancient organics on the surface of Mars ...Daily Mail

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBL6oZu6LQ
    Published on 7 Jun 2018....Daily Mail...( 3 mins )...
    NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered signatures of an environment on the red
    plant that may once have been habitable. In two separate studies on data collected
    by the Mars rover over the last few years, scientists have identified an abundant
    source of organic matter in the ancient soil, and traced some of the planet’s
    atmospheric methane to its roots. The findings could help to guide the search for
    ancient microbial life and improve our understanding of seasonal processes on Mars.
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    Mars has seasonal methane variations
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP5jwuGQIXU
    Published on 7 Jun 2018...Sci news...( 6 mins )...
    NASA’s Curiosity rover detected seasonal methane releases on Mars using the
    Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Water-rock chemistry might have
    generated the methane, but scientists cannot rule out the possibility of biological origins.

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    New Mars Science Results

    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53kq635mpMs

    Streamed live on 7 Jun 2018...( 58 mins )...
    NASA discusses new science results from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
    The media and public are invited to ask questions.

    Michelle Thaller, assistant director of science for communications, in
    NASA's Planetary Science Division will host the chat. Participants include:
    Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's
    Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
    Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard
    Chris Webster, senior research fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
    Ashwin Vasavada, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist, JPL

    The public can send questions on social media by using #askNASA.
    For information about NASA's Curiosity rover, visit:
    https://www.nasa.gov/msl


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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGKTUGttzfk
    Published on 8 Jun 2018...Fox...( 4 mins)....
    Space.com's Tariq Malik on NASA reporting it found the
    building blocks of life on Mars and the private space race.

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    Video https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/scienc...-on-mars-found
    Nasa: Building blocks of life on Mars found

    Nasa says organic matter found at the bottom of a crater on the Red Planet
    suggests there might have been life there once. Samples of the matter were
    analysed by a team of scientists, including Prof Sanjeev Gupta from Imperial
    College London. He told Today how significant the discovery
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/scienc...-on-mars-found
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    JWST: Launch of Hubble's successor pushed back to 2021

    By Jonathan Amos
    BBC Science Correspondent
    27 June 2018


    Webb contains novel technologies that have never previously been flown in space

    The successor to the Hubble observatory will not now launch until 30 March 2021 at the earliest.
    The 29-month delay, from October this year, follows a review into the technical challenges currently
    facing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).The date change and the extra work required pushes
    the likely cost of the project to $9.66bn (£7.27bn). JWST will use a huge mirror and state-of-the-art
    instruments to try to see the first stars to shine in the cosmos. It will have the power as well to resolve
    the atmospheres of some of the new planets being discovered beyond our Solar System, and to analyse
    their atmospheres for the potential for life.

    The US space agency has expressed frustration at the latest setback. However, its science director,
    Thomas Zurbuchen, argued that "Webb would be worth the wait". "By setting this new launch date, Nasa
    agrees with the central findings of the Independent Review Board (IRB) that the development of the
    telescope should move forward because of the exceptional potential that it has and the spectacular science
    that will be returned when Webb is out there in space."



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    Default Re: Kepler telescope discovers crop of 104 new Exoplanets, 4 look promising - 18 July 2016

    Shall we use Kepler to try to find CS?

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    NASA's Aging Planet Hunter Telescope Kepler Is Struggling To See Straight

    Published 1st October 2018



    Space-Time has taken it's toll it would seem!

    Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/41984-nasa-kep...-dead-yet.html
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