Triangulum galaxy snapped by VST
Paris (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
Messier 33, otherwise known as NGC 598, is located about three million light-years away in the small northern constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle). Often known as the Triangulum Galaxy it was observed by the French comet hunter Charles Messier in August 1764, who listed it as number 33 in his famous list of prominent nebulae and star clusters.
However, he was not the first to record ...
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US Suppliers Could Lose Global Space Market Share Over Sanctions
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 13, 2014 -
US companies producing space-qualified components could lose some of their global market share due to Washington's sanctions, which prevent them from trading with Russia, the head of Russia's United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC), Igor Komarov, said.
"There's growing discontent in Russia, as well as globally, with the fact that the overwhelming majority... of radiation-resistant compo ...
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Last European cargo ship docks with space station
Paris (AFP) Aug 12, 2014 -
Europe turned a page in its space flight history on Tuesday when it delivered supplies to the International Space Station for the last time.
An automated cargo ship successfully docked with the ISS as scheduled in a precision manoeuvre broadcast live on the web.
The Georges Lemaitre automated transfer vehicle (ATV), named after the father of the Big Bang theory of how the Universe was ...
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Ten-year study highlights sleep issues in space
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
In an extensive study of sleep monitoring and sleeping pill use in astronauts, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Colorado found that astronauts suffer considerable sleep deficiency in the weeks leading up to and during space flight. The research also highlights widespread use of sleeping me ...
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New Horizons Spies Charon Orbiting Pluto
Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
Like explorers of old peering through a shipboard telescope for a faint glimpse of their destination, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is taking a distant look at the Pluto system - in preparation for its historic encounter with the planet and its moons next summer.
"Filmed" with New Horizons' best onboard telescope - the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) - this movie covers Pluto and ...
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Ride Shotgun With NASA Saucer As It Flies to Near Space
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project successfully flew a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space in late June from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.
The goal of this experimental flight test, the first of three planned for the project, was to determine if the balloon-launched, rocket-powered, saucer-shaped, design could ...
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Australia toughens terror laws on foreign fighter fears
Sydney (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 -
Australia will toughen laws to target home-grown terrorists and those who fight overseas over fears violent jihadist citizens in Syria and Iraq will return home, officials said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the terror threat to Australia had not subsided since the September 11, 2001 attacks and remained at the highest level it had ever been.
Officials have said up to 150 Austr ...
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