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Artist impression of nanoscale diamonds surrounding a young star in the Milky Way. Recent Green Bank Telescope and Australia Telescope Compact Array observations have identified the telltale radio signal of diamond dust around 3 such stars, suggesting they are a source of the so-called anomalous microwave emission. (S. Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Astronomers Detect Nanodiamonds in Three Baby Star Systems

June 11, 2018

Astronomers have detected swirls of diamonds, hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, in the protoplanetary or circumstellar disks of three baby star systems in the Milky Way – V892 Tau, HD 97048, and MWC 297. After conducting a series of observations with the US National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope […]

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NASA Seeks Astronauts; Good Sleep = Good Mood; Device Finds Water in Space

November 4, 2015

Help Wanted – NASA As NASA continues to prepare to resume human spaceflight launches and readies its ambitious ‘Journey to Mars’, it is putting out its “help wanted” sign. The space agency announced that it will soon begin to accept applications for its next class of astronauts who will fly from the Space Coast of […]

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