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  Rethinking Wind Power

  February 25, 2013 — “People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says an applied physicist. After all, gusts and ... > full story
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  European Space Agency's AIDA Mission Now Has a Target: Asteroid Didymos

  February 22, 2013 — The European Space Agency's proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The recent Russian meteor and, on the same day, our planet's close encounter ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees a Glowing Jet from a Young Star

  February 24, 2013 — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image showing an object known as HH 151, a bright jet of glowing material trailed by an intricate, orange-hued plume of gas and ... > full story
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  How to Kill an Asteroid? Get out a Paint Spray Gun

  February 21, 2013 — There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor is exploring. It’s a plan to deflect ... > full story
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  Discovering the Birth of an Asteroid Trail

  February 21, 2013 — Unlike comets, asteroids are not characterised by exhibiting a trail, but there are now ten exceptions. Researchers have observed one of these rare asteroids from the Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spain) ... > full story
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  NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System: Smallest Planet Yet Found Around a Star Similar to Our Sun

  February 20, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system called ... > full story
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  Searching for the Solar System's Chemical Recipe

  February 20, 2013 — The ratio of isotopes in elements like oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen were once thought to be much the same everywhere, determined only by their different masses. Then isotope ratios in meteorites, ... > full story
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  Sun's Next-Door Twin: Cool Layer in the Atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A

  February 20, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun. The finding is ... > full story
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  3-D Observations of the Outflow from an Active Galactic Nucleus

  February 20, 2013 — Quasars are bright central regions of some distant galaxies. Their luminosities are often hundreds of times greater than those of their host galaxies (Note 2). Scientists believe that their light ... > full story
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  NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2012 DA14

  February 19, 2013 — An initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was obtained on the night of Feb. 15/16, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, ... > full story

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