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November 01, 2016

Discovery of binary-binary calls solar system formation into question
Gainesville FL (SPX) Oct 31, 2016
Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They've discovered the first "binary-binary" - two massive companions around one star in a close binary system, one so-called giant planet and one brown dwarf, or "failed star" The first, called MARVELS-7a, is 12 times the mass of Jupiter, while the second, MARVELS-7b, has 57 times the mass of Jupiter. Astronomers believe that planets in our solar s ... read more

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Fixing deficits in boundary plasma models Researchers working on the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego are working to show how plasma transport and atomic physics come together to provide power exhaust solutions. One of the grand challenges facin ... more		New species of extremely leggy millipede discovered in a cave in California Along with many spiders, pseudoscorpions, and flies discovered and catalogued by the cave explorers, a tiny threadlike millipede was found in the unexplored dark marble caves in Sequoia National Par ... more		AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom		First results of NSTX-U research operations Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratories (PPPL) and collaborating institutions presented results from research on the National Spherical Torus Exp ... more
				Scientists measure how ions bombard fusion device walls For the first time, researchers at West Virginia University (WVU) have directly measured the complicated 3D patterns of flowing plasma as it strikes the walls of fusion and space propulsion devices. ... more		Alcator C-mod bows out with a new world record On its final day of operation, the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (Figure 1) set a new record for plasma pressure in a magnetic ... more

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Breakthrough Listen to Search for Intelligent Life Around Tabby's Star Tabby's star has provoked so much excitement over the past year, with speculation that it hosts a highly advanced civilization capable of building orbiting megastructures to capture the star's energ ... more		Last Bits of 2015 Pluto Flyby Data Received on Earth NASA's New Horizons mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from the Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safel ... more		15000 space rocks and counting The international effort to find, confirm and catalogue the multitude of asteroids that pose a threat to our planet has reached a milestone: 15 000 discovered - with many more to go. The number of c ... more		Preferentially Earth-sized Planets with Lots of Water Computer simulations by astrophysicists at the University of Bern of the formation of planets orbiting in the habitable zone of low mass stars such as Proxima Centauri show that these planets are mo ... more

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