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ESA's Tigers On Prowl For Solar Corona's SecretsParis, France (ESA) Dec 14, 2009 Bring together a small group of highly motivated researchers, grant them full access to laboratory and production facilities, remove all administrative distractions, and let them work intensively for four to six months. That's what 'StarTiger' is all about! It is a different approach to conducting research and development that aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a new and promising ... read more |
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Ithica NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2009Iapetus is often called Saturn's most bizarre moon, due to its starkly contrasting hemispheres - one black as coal, the other white as snow. Images taken by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, orbiting Saturn since 2004, offer the most compelling evidence to date of why and how the moon got its yin-yang appearance, as well as clues to how other such satellites might have formed in the early universe ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2009This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970. X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in purple, while Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared data is red and optical data from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is colored red, green and blue. Astronomers think that supermassive black holes ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2009Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation. According to a new paper soon to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, one of the stars that makes the bend in the ladle's handle, Alcor, has a smaller red dwarf companion. Newly discovered Alcor B orbits its larger sibling and was caught in the ... more |
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Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 10, 2009Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies in the local universe. One question concerning Dan Dicken, a post-doctoral research scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology, pertains to the origin of ... more 
Oberhausen, Germany (SPX) Dec 10, 2009The dimensions are impressive. In the spacious arena of the Gasometer Oberhausen, visitors stand under the largest Moon on Earth. The giant sculpture almost fills their entire field of vision. The balloon, with a diameter of 25 metres, appears to float in the half-light. It is a quasi-realistic reproduction of the Earth's satellite. The lighting effects show the phases of the Moon from new ... more 
Birkenhead, UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2009The Liverpool Telescope has used a unique scientific camera (named RINGO) to measure the polarization of the light from a Gamma Ray Burst and show that strong magnetic fields are responsible for beaming the light towards the Earth. The result is reported in a paper in Nature magazine by the team of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) astronomers who built and operate the instrument. ... more |
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