Scientists are saying that for the first time, they've found proof of the oxygen molecule in space.

This new find, some 230 years since the discovery of oxygen gas, marks the first time the life-giving molecule has ever been found in deep space, according to NASA. air jordan shoes For decades, researchers have used balloons, as well as grounded and space-based telescopes, to try and spot the elusive molecule in space.

From NASA:

Individual atoms of oxygen are Air Jordan 2011 common in space, particularly around massive stars. But molecular oxygen, which makes up about 20 percent of the air we breathe, has eluded astronomers until now.

In 2007, the Swedish Odin telescope may have also spotted the molecule, but the find could not Cheap online kids shoes shop. be confirmed. This time, the Herschel Telescope seems to have definitively made the discovery.

According to the BBC, the find will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

While oxygen is the third most abundant molecule in the universe, the molecular form, consisting of just two atoms, had never before been seen in space. These molecules Top online kids shoes shop. were found in a star-forming part of the constellation of Orion, according to the BBC. The Discover Magazine blog explains that the discovered oxygen "may have formed after starlight heated the dust and released water, which then broke down into the detected oxygen molecules."

The Herschel Telescope is credited for another amazing discovery earlier in the summer, when it spotted a star shooting "intense water jets" out into space. That discovery may one day play a large part Air Jordan 2011 Melo M7 in helping scientists determine the life cycle of stars and protostars.

Moody's Investors Service Tuesday confirmed its Aaa rating of the chaussures air max United States, citing the decision to raise the debt limit, but assigned a negative outlook to the rating, pressuring lawmakers to create a long-term fiscal consolidation plan.

Moody's assigned a negative outlook to the rating.

The ratings agency AIR MAX 2011 confirmed the United States' Aaa rating after congressional lawmakers agreed to raise the country's debt ceiling, which will allow the Treasury to keep servicing debt obligations.

Moody's had placed U.S. ratings on review for a possible downgrade on July 13, The whole sale of NFL jerseys fearing that the government could miss debt payments if lawmakers failed to increase the country's legal borrowing limit by the Aug. 2nd deadline.

``Today's agreement is a first step toward achieving the long-term fiscal consolidation needed to maintain the US Kids shoes NFL jerseysgovernment debt metrics within Aaa parameters over the long run,'' Moody's said in a statement.

With the debt-ceiling issue solved, the agency is now focusing on the long-term challenges to U.S. public finances, burdened by a deficit that has reached about 9 percent of the country's Nike LunarMax economy -- one of the highest since World War II.

It assigned a negative outlook on the rating, however, in a sign that a downgrade is still possible in the next 12 to 18 months.

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The famewhoring and ridiculous antics of Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag finally backfired, Lebron James shoes leaving them broke and forced to live rent-free at Spencer's parents' house. (Although, it is a Santa Barbara beach house, so don't feel too sorry for them.) They explain to the Daily Beast how it all went wrong:

•They thought that living a fake life in front of the cameras (for example: Through it all, they never actually broke up) would pay off for them in the long run, but it turns out "you can be too famous," Spencer says. "Reality TV is not a career." His antics for the camera made him so widely detested he can't find a job, and is considering going back to AIR MAX LEBRON VIII school. Heidi has been appearing on a reality competition show.

•Spencer says they never truly had any money, because they spent it as quickly as they got it. A whopping $2 million went toward hiring writers, producers, and engineers for Heidi's failed music endeavor.

•"I probably spent a million dollars on suits and fancy clothes,” Spencer says. “My whole Kids shoes and NFL jerseys million-dollar wardrobe—I would never wear that again. They’re props. Everything we were doing, we were buying props."

•Along those same lines, he adds, "I bought a big blue monster truck just to drive it on The Hills for an episode. Never drove it again.”

•A lot of money went toward Heidi's plastic several techniques to preserve money on children footwear surgery "addiction." Now, she says, "If I could go back, I wouldn’t do it."

•Nowadays, they read a lot of books, watch a lot of movies, and "do a lot of laundry," as Heidi says. They don't go out much, spend time training their dogs, and eat, according to Spencer, "tacos and burritos."

•“I thought when this was all over, I could get on an interview and say, ‘It was all entertainment,'" says Spencer, lebron james basketball shoes who acknowledges he was wrong. As for Heidi, she thought she could be like Kim Kardashian: But "my ego got too big," she says. "To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever.”

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In a neat new discovery, researchers have found that one species of dolphin has the ability to sense electricity. The Guiana dolphin, which is native chaussures air max to the east coast of South America, is able to detect the weak electrical signals emitted by nearby fish.

According to Discover Magazine, researchers examined small pits on the dolphin's nose, or vibrissal crypts, and found them to be AIR MAX NOMO connected to a number of nerves that reach the dolphin's brain. Suspecting these crypts to be sense organs, researchers tested Guiana dolphins' reactions to a mild electrical field with and without these crypts covered. Science Magazine reports that scientists "conducted 186 The whole sale of NFL jerseys trials, presenting the dolphin with a range of electrical signals from low to high. The dolphin responded well even to low signals, displaying an electrosensitivity similar to that of platypuses."

The BBC reports that this dolphin lives in murky water where its prey is hard to see. According to head researcher Wolf Hanke at the University of AIR MAX 2011 Rostock in Germany, this "electrolocation" is also important because "echolocation doesn't work at very close range." The video from Newsy below explains that the researchers believe other dolphin species may also have the ability to electrolocate.

Scientists have known for some time that dolphins navigate using sonar, but this discovery reveals them to be even more impressive than previously thought. The Guiana dolphin shares this Kids shoes NFL jerseys ability with sharks, rays and platypuses, but is the first "true mammal" known to be able to detect electrical fields.

The results of the study, which were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, come as towns in Japan prepare for their annual dolphin hunting season, and several months after a U.S. Navy training exercise killed several dolphins near San Diego.

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Stocks ended the worst week in a year as time runs out on Washington to reach agreement before the government loses its ability to borrow money.

The S&P 500 fell every day this week and was down 3.9 percent for the week as legislators failed to work out an agreement to raise the federal chaussures air max borrowing limit, which expires on Tuesday. Investors also worry about the likelihood of a U.S. credit downgrade.

The CBOE Market Volatility Index .VIX, a gauge of investor fear, jumped as much as 9 percent to its highest level since mid-March before paring its rise.

Natalie Trunow, chief investment officer of equities at Calvert Investment Management in Bethesda, Maryland, said investors are taking a more several techniques to preserve money on children footwear defensive stance, possibly moving more into cash.

"It's frustrating for investors and for U.S. citizens to see this unfold in the way it has been," she said.

"From an overall asset allocation standpoint, in an environment like this, you get bigger moves into cash and safe havens."

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 96.87 points, or 0.79 percent, at 12,143.24. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was down NFL jerseys whole sale 8.39 points, or 0.65 percent, at 1,292.28. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 9.87 points, or 0.36 percent, at 2,756.38.

President Barack Obama told Republicans and Democrats to find a way "out of this mess." The United States will be unable to borrow money to pay its bills if Congress does not raise the debt limit by August 2.

A second attempt for a vote in the House of Representatives is expected after the close of trading on Friday after a bill was modified to try to win over more conservative lawmakers. The measure has NFL jerseys online sale little chance of passing in the Senate, however.

At least one credit rating agency has said it is likely to lower the United States' prized tripe-A rating if the cuts in Washington don't go far enough.

"Will the deal be enough to satisfy the credit rating AIR MAX NOMO agencies is really what's at stake here," Trunow said, whose firm manages about $14.8 billion.

The S&P utility index .GSPU is down 2.1 percent for the week, while the Dow is down 4.2 percent and the Nasdaq is down 3.6 percent for the week.

The S&P 500 briefly fell below its 200-day moving average, seen as key AIR MAX 2011 support, and bounced back from its worst levels of the day.

Weak economic data also weighed on equities. The U.S. economy stumbled badly in the first half of this year and came dangerously close to contracting in the January-March period.

Among declining stocks, Chevron Corp (CVX.N), the second-largest U.S. oil company, fell 1 percent to $104.02 despite reporting a 43 percent jump in quarterly profit that beat estimates.

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Chief executives from the nation's largest financial firms Thursday pressured the White House and Congress to reach Lebron James shoes a deal on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction, saying the consequences of inaction ''would be very grave.''

JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein and Bank of America's Brian Moynihan, among others, said in a letter that an agreement needs to be reached AIR MAX LEBRON VIII this week.

"A default on our nation's obligations, or a downgrade of America's credit rating, would be a tremendous blow to business and investor confidence -- raising interest rates for everyone who borrows, undermining the NFL jerseys online sale value of the dollar, and roiling stock and bond markets -- and, therefore, dramatically worsening our nation's already difficult economic circumstances,'' the letter said.

The letter from the chief executives come as Congress and the White House struggle to broker a deal to raise the country's $14.3 trillion debt cap before Aug. 2 when cheap NFL jerseys whole sale the U.S. Treasury will no longer be able to borrow funds to pay all of its bills.

That has raised the specter of default and businesses from the big banks to manufacturers are alarmed by the potential lebron james basketball shoes fallout.

Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, Metlife Inc's Steven Kandarian and Morgan Stanley's James Gorman were also among the chief executives who signed the letter.

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If Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, why not just pretty up that side of the American discourse, too? After all, if we're chaussures air max going to have to watch bravado-filled speeches and dishonest cable news interviews, why not have some eye candy, too? 

Using imagery from the 2008 election, in which Barack Obama raised, however briefly, the spirits and AIR MAX NOMO hopes of a nation, this George Clooney joint -- it was adapted into screenplay, directed by and starring the already-outspoken star and advocate -- explores the juxtaposing constants of public inspiration and private flaws in politics. 

Clooney stars as a Presidential candidate with seemingly all the momentum, and Ryan Gosling his "up-and-coming" press secretary who, per the official Kids shoes NFL jerseys synopsis, "finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency." 

Speaking to USA Today, Clooney said that he had to wait a few years to produce the film, waiting for inevitable Kids shoes and NFL jerseys cynicism to creep back in after the elation following President Obama's election. The noted liberal made it about Democrats to, in part, avoid accusations of bias, though it doesn't quite stick to party lines. 

"Of course it's political; it takes place during a primary," he told the paper. "But it's more about process than platform." several techniques to preserve money on children footwear

He also noted that, 'Republicans hate the beginning of the movie, the Democrats hate the end. So we're good." 

The film, which co-stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood, is set to open the Venice Film Festival on Nike LunarMax August 31st; for more, click over to USA Today. 

Clooney also stars in upcoming dramedy, "The Descendants," which will play at the Toronto Film Festival, while Gosling's "Drive" will also take the screen in Canada in September. Gosling can be seen this weekend in much lighter fare, the romantic comedy, "Crazy, Stupid, Love."

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