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Costa Rica's Mysterious Stone SpheresLawrence KS (SPX) Mar 24, 2010 The ancient stone spheres of Costa Rica were made world-famous by the opening sequence of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," when a mockup of one of the mysterious relics nearly crushed Indiana Jones. So perhaps John Hoopes is the closest thing at the University of Kansas to the movie action hero. Hoopes, associate professor of anthropology and director of the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, recently returned from a trip to Costa Rica where he and colleagues evaluated the stone balls for ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Mar 18, 2010Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape our Galaxy and trigger star formation. Planck is principally designed to study the biggest mysteries of cosmology. How did the Universe form? How did the galaxies form? This new image extends the range o ... more  
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 18, 2010NASA is releasing to the Planetary Data System (PDS) the first six months of data acquired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. The PDS serves as NASA's permanent online data archive providing these measurements to the science community and the world at large. This release includes data acquired between June 2009 and December 2009 by the suite of science instruments on the ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 18, 2010New images from ESA's Planck mission reveal details of the structure of the coldest regions in our Galaxy. Filamentary clouds predominate, connecting the largest to the smallest scales in the Milky Way. These images are a scientific by-product of a mission which will ultimately provide the sharpest picture ever of the early Universe. ESA's Planck microwave observatory - the first European ... more |
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'Cool Jupiter' widens search for exoplanetsParis (AFP) March 17, 2010 Marking a further step in the hunt for worlds orbiting other stars, astronomers on Wednesday said they had found a cool planet the size of Jupiter that encircles a sun at searing proximity. The work is a technical exploit in the field of exoplanets, as planets outside our Solar System are called, they said. "This is the first (exoplanet) whose properties we can study in depth," said Claire Moutou, one of 60 astronomers who took part in the discovery. "It is bound to become a Rosetta Stone in exo ... read more |
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