Sunday, March 3, 2013

Daily News: Reuters Science News Headlines - Astronomers spy possible baby planet in stellar womb

Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 04:40 PM PST

Astronomers spy possible baby planet in stellar womb 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 04:40 PM PST
An image from the NACO system on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows a candidate protoplanet in the disc of gas and dust around the young star HD100546.CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Scientists have found what they believe to be a planet-in-the-making that is still gathering material left over from the formation of its parent star. The object appears as a faint blob nested inside a disk of gas and dust that swirls around a very young star known as HD 100546, located about 335 light years away in the constellation Musca, or The Fly, astronomers report in a paper published on Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal. Light travels about 186,000 miles per second, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km) a year. ...
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SpaceX cargo capsule cleared for Space Station docking on Sunday 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 02:02 PM PST
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon capsule, lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a second resupply mission to the International Space Station in Cape CanaveralCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 2 - A cargo capsule owned by Space Exploration Technologies was cleared for a belated docking at the International Space Station on Sunday after engineers resolved a problem with the spacecraft's thruster pods, NASA said on Saturday. The Dragon spacecraft, built and operated by privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, missed its scheduled arrival on Saturday after problems surfaced with three of its four thruster rocket pods shortly after launch on Friday. ...
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