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Hints of a volcanically active exomoon

A rocky extrasolar moon (exomoon) with bubbling lava may orbit a planet 550 light-years away from us. This is suggested by an international team of researchers led by the University of Bern on the basis of theoretical predictions matching observations. The “exo-Io” would appear to be an extreme version of Jupiter’s moon Io.

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Artist’s composition of a volcanic exo-Io undergoing extreme mass loss. The hidden exomoon is enshrouded in an irradiated gas cloud shining in bright orange-yellow, as would be seen with a sodium filter. Patches of sodium clouds are seen to trail the lunar orbit, possibly driven by the gas giant’s magnetosphere.

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DLR at IAA New Mobility World 2019

Automated, networked and fascinating

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UMV People Mover 2+2.

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Exoplanets Can’t Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New Instrument

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Artist's conception of the Kepler-13AB binary star system as revealed by observations including the new Gemini Observatory data. The two stars (A and B) are large, massive bluish stars (center) with the transiting "hot Jupiter" (Kepler-13b) in the foreground (left corner). Star B and its low mass red dwarf companion star are seen in the background to the right.

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AI learns to model our Universe

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A comparison of the accuracy of two models of the Universe. The new deep learning model (left), dubbed D3M, is much more accurate than an existing analytic method (right) called 2LPT. The colors represent the error in displacement at each point relative to the numerical simulation, which is accurate but much slower than the deep learning model.

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CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS

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Dragon capsule with CIMON on board.

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Fires ravage the Amazon

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Streaks in Aurora Found to Map Features in Earth’s Radiation Environment

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An unexpected blob, circled in green, seen in radar data from Poker Flat sparked the research leading to the discovery of the structured diffuse aurora as maps of the edge of the outer Van Allen belt.

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Raft of rubble

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Raft of rubble.

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X-RAYING A GALAXY’S STELLAR REMNANTS__X-ray kaleidoscope

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X-RAYING A GALAXY’S STELLAR REMNANTS

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The Latest Look at "First Light" from Chandra

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The Latest Look at "First Light" from Chandra