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Inhaling For Exploration As Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System Houston TX (SPX) May 08, 2008 
Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make your breathing a little more animated? For three weeks, 23 volunteers dedicated time to do just that - sweat and breathe - inside a test chamber so NASA scientists at Johnson Space Center in Houston could meas ... read more |
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Snow Like Iron Helps Maintain The Magnetic Field Of Mercury
Champaign IL (SPX) May 08, 2008New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground. The movement of this iron snow could be responsible for Mercury's mysterious magnetic field, say researchers from the University of Illinois and Case Western Reserve University. In a paper ... more Saturn Does The Wave In Upper Atmosphere 
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 08, 2008Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. The discovery of the wave pattern is the result of a 22-year campaign observing Saturn from Earth (the longest study of temperature outside Earth ever recorded), and the Cassini spacecraft's observations of ... more Solar Variability And Climate Change 
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 08, 2008The sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate. The sun also delivers an annual and seasonal impact, changing the character of each hemisphere as Earth's orientation shifts through the year. Since the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces have begun to exert significant influence on Earth's climate. "For the last 20 to 30 years, we believe greenhouse ... more XMM-Newton Discovers Part Of Missing Matter In The Universe 
Paris, France (SPX) May 07, 2008ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe. 10 years ago, scientists predicted that about half of the missing 'ordinary' or normal matter made of atoms exists in the form of low-density gas, filling vast spaces between galaxies. All the matter in the universe is distributed in a ... more APL's STEREO Mission Stars In Smithsonian IMAX Film 
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 07, 2008STEREO spacecraft animations created by Steve Gribben of the Technical Communications Group at APL sizzle on the big screen in 3D Sun, a digital IMAX film that opened in March at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The 20-minute movie features the STEREO - for Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory - mission to help audiences understand the impact the sun has on Earth. ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) May 06, 2008In the four years since NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn and began snapping pictures, Cassini's cameras have sent nearly 140,000 images back to researchers on Earth. The data and images -- as well as data from infrared, radar and ultraviolet detectors on the orbiter and images from the Huygens probe on the surface of the planet's moon Titan -- have given researchers ... more Argonne Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Physics Of Exploding Stars 
Chicago IL (SPX) May 05, 2008Robert Fisher and Cal Jordan are among a team of scientists who will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds. Fisher and Jordan require such resources in their field of extreme science. Their work at the University Of Chicago's center for astrophysical thermonuclear ... more Titan's Smoggy Sand Grains 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 05, 2008Titan and Earth have much in common, but not when it comes to sand. On Earth, sand grains form by breaking things down, but on Titan, the opposite may be true - with much of the sand a product of building things up. That's one theory Cassini scientists are considering after studying Titan's massive sand dunes with the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer on the Cassini Saturn orbiter. ... more The eta Aquarid Meteor Shower 
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2008The eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this year on Tuesday, May 6th. The best time to look, no matter where you live, is during the hours immediately before sunrise. If you can, get away from city lights; you will see more meteors from the dark countryside. 2008 should be a good year for the eta Aquarid meteors. The Moon is new, which means no lunar glare, and Earth is expected to pass ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008Some of the oldest objects in the Universe may still have a long way to go, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These new results indicate that globular clusters might be surprisingly less mature in their development than previously thought. Globular clusters, dense bunches of up to millions of stars found in all galaxies, are among the oldest known objects in ... more The Astrobiology Universe 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008The opening speaker at the 2008 Astrobiology Science Conference, Lord Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, said that our universe may just be one of many. Multiple universes could be stacked sideways like sheets of paper, separated by only a thin margin of space. We would never know they were there unless we could be awakened to the existence of that other dimension. This could have ... more Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes On Cue 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 02, 2008Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, an international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. "We found a clock that ticks slower and slower, and when it slows down too much, boom! The bomb explodes," says lead author Diego Altamirano of the Universi ... more Mcdonald Observatory Astronomers Discover New Type Of Pulsating White Dwarf Star 
Austin TX (SPX) May 02, 2008University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star with the help of the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory. The discovery will be announced in today's issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. Called a "pulsating car ... more
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