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The Sun's Magnetic Fountains London, UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2008 
Astronomers have known for decades that the Sun has a very dynamic atmosphere. Huge fountains of hot gas erupt in the atmosphere, or corona, every few minutes, travelling at tens of thousands of km per hour and reaching great heights. Now a team of scientists have used the Hinode spacecraft to find the origin and driver of these fountains - immense magnetic structures that thread through the ... read more |
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Workers Ready Course For NASA's 15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Each year around this time, John Tripp walks across a lunar surface, pondering the challenges ahead for explorers brave enough to take on its cratered terrain. For now, his "moon" is a winding ribbon of cement footpaths looped around Huntsville's famed U.S. Space and Rocket Center, where Tripp is a construction foreman. By month's end, a half-mile of the paths will be transformed into a ha ... more Newly Discovered Galaxy Cluster In Early Stage Of Formation Is Farthest Ever Identified 
Irvine CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2008UC Irvine scientists have discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that is 11.4 billion light years from Earth - the farthest of its kind ever to be detected. These galaxies are so distant that the universe was in its infancy when their light was emitted. The galaxy proto-cluster, named LBG-2377, is giving scientists an unprecedented look at galaxy formation and ... more Advanced LIGO Project Funded By National Science Foundation 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2008The Advanced LIGO Project, an upgrade in sensitivity for LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories), was approved by the National Science Board in its meeting on March 27. The National Science Foundation will fund the $205.12 million, seven-year project, starting with $32.75 million in 2008. This major upgrade will increase the sensitivity of the LIGO instruments by a ... more Focused Solar Explosions Get Hotter 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2008A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused". "A flare typically divides its energy between directly heating the solar atmosphere and accelerating particles," said Dr. Ryan Milligan of the Oak Ridge Association of Universities, Tennessee, who is stationed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ... more Scientists Discover 10 New Planets Outside Solar System 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2008An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these other worlds, some of which are quite exotic. The system is expected to revolutionize scientific understanding of how planets form. Two participating astronomers from the U.S. ... more |
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Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 02, 2008Deep in the bowels of the earth -100 metres below ground in Geneva, Switzerland - lies a supermachine of 27 km circumference called the Large Hadron Collider that has been built to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Claude Leroy, a Universite de Montreal physics professor, was among the 2,500 scientists from 37 countries recruited to help design, test and build the ATLAS detector ... more Why Matter Matters In The Universe 
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Mar 31, 2008The latest research findings, which involved significant contributions from physicists at the University of Melbourne, have been recently published in the prestigious journal Nature. The paper reveals that investigation into the process of B-meson decays has given insight into why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. "B-mesons are a new frontier of investigation for us and ... more Old Solar Cycle Returns 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Solar Cycle 23, how can we miss you if you won't go away? Barely three months after forecasters announced the beginning of new Solar Cycle 24, old Solar Cycle 23 has returned. (Actually, it never left. Read on.) "This week, three big sunspots appeared and they are all old cycle spots," says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "We know this because of their magnetic polarity." What's going ... more Crafty Tricks For Finding Moon Water 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Bright gray, crater-pocked mountains taller than Mount McKinley. Abyssal craters that could swallow several Grand Canyons whole. Recent radar maps of the Moon's southern pole revealed a dramatic, jagged landscape that astronauts could someday call home. But unfortunately, these radar images didn't provide any new information about something that would make living at the lunar pole much easier ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 26, 2008Armed men on Wednesday seized the Moscow Planetarium, a futuristic silver dome on a valuable plot of land, as a long-running property dispute came to a head, the building's director said. "Twelve armed men entered by force, threw workers out onto the street and barricaded themselves in," planetarium director Igor Mikitasov told the Echo of Moscow radio station. He blamed the raid on Moscow ... more Googling Alien Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2008MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. The system could rapidly discover hundreds of planets similar to the Earth. Google, the Internet search powerhouse that in recent years has expanded to ... more Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's Crust 
Laurel MD (ESA) Mar 26, 2008Cassini has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation. "With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and mountains, Titan has one of the most varied, active and Earth-like surfaces in the solar system," said Ralph Lorenz, lead author of the paper and ... more Saturn moon shows potential for water and life: NASA 
Washington (AFP) March 26, 2008The Cassini spacecraft detected temperatures and organic materials indicating possible conditions for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus as it flew through giant plumes at the moon's south pole, NASA officials said Wednesday. The spacecraft found a high density of water vapor and both simple and complex organic chemicals as it passed within 50 kilometers (30 miles) of Enceladus on March 12 to a ... more
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