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![]() Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 19, 2010 Scientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This extreme mass ratio of 100:1 breaks a barrier in the fields of numerical relativity and gravitational wave astronomy. Until now, the problem of simulating the merger of binary black holes with extreme size differences had remained an unexplored region of black-hole physics. "Nature doesn't collide black holes of equal masses," says Carlos ... read more |
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![]() Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in ... more | .. |
![]() Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2 NASA has just issued a travel advisory for spacecraft: Watch out for Comet Hartley 2, it is experiencing a significant winter snowstorm. Deep Impact photographed the unexpected tempest when it ... more | .. |
![]() Researchers Trap Antimatter Atoms In the movie Angels and Demons, scientists have solved one of the most perplexing scientific problems: the capture and storage of antimatter. In real life, trapping atomic antimatter has never been ... more | .. |
![]() WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen In Starry Sea A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the cosmos - ... more |
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![]() Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space Scientists involved with the first space mission attempting to sample asteroid surface material and return to Earth, have confirmed presence of particles collected from a small container aboard the ... more | .. |
![]() Ikeya-Murakami: The New Comet On The Cosmic Block The animation below shows the motion of Comet Ikeya-Murakami on Nov. 13, 2010, captured with a New Mexico-based telescope operated remotely by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The images w ... more | .. |
![]() First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy A hot, gaseous and fast-spinning planet has been found orbiting a dying star on the edge of the Milky Way, in the first such discovery of a planet from outside our galaxy, scientists said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Antimatter Atoms Produced And Trapped At CERN The ALPHA experiment at CERN has taken an important step forward in developing techniques to understand one of the Universe's open questions: is there a difference between matter and antimatter? In ... more |
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![]() Antihydrogen Trapped For First Time Physicists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have succeeded in trapping antihydrogen - the antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom - a miles ... more | .. |
![]() Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dust A Japanese deep-space probe became the first ever to collect asteroid dust during a seven-year voyage that ended with its return to Earth over the Australian desert this year, Japan said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems That Might Explode Sometimes when you're looking for one thing, you find something completely different and unexpected. In the scientific endeavor, such serendipity can lead to new discoveries. Today, researchers who ... more | .. |
![]() Most Particles In Hayabusa Explorer's Capsule Originate From Asteroid An analysis of some 1,500 particles found in the Hayabusa explorer's capsule revealed that most of them originated from rocks on the asteroid Itokawa, according to the Japanese science and technolog ... more |
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![]() How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year There are several major meteor showers to enjoy every year at various times, with some more active than others. For example, April's Lyrids are expected to produce about 15 meteors an hour at their ... more | .. |
![]() Linking Geometric Problems To Physics Could Open Door To New Solutions A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to ... more | .. |
![]() Yihua Zheng: A New Breed Of Weather Forecaster It is 11:15 a.m. on a Friday morning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and time for Yihua Zheng's daily check on the sun. She walks from her small office down the hall to the C ... more | .. |
![]() Mining On The Moon Is A Not-So-Distant Possibility While lunar mining might some day be economically feasible for countries and companies, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher believes strongly that mining in space is essential ... more |
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![]() Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity ... more | .. |
![]() Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday November 17 The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the two to three hours before dawn on November 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. There is always some uncerta ... more | .. |
![]() Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien Worlds Did you know that the Earth has a dust tail? The Spitzer Space Telescope sailed right through it a few months ago, giving researchers a clear idea of what it looks like. That could be a big help to ... more | .. |
![]() A Softer Landing on the Moon Getting something onto the surface of the Moon intact is always a challenge. Gravity pulls you in. There's no atmosphere to slow you down. Parachutes don't work. Your only hope is to use thrusters t ... more |
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![]() Saturn Then And Now: 30 Years Since Voyager Visit Ed Stone, project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission, remembers the first time he saw the kinks in one of Saturn's narrowest rings. It was the day the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approac ... more | .. |
![]() SSTL Satellite Steps Aside To Reduce Space Junk Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully repositioned the UK-DMC-1 spacecraft, which is reaching the end of its operational life, using unspent propellant to reduce the orbital lifeti ... more | .. |
![]() New Analysis Explains Formation Of Lunar Farside Bulge A bulge of elevated topography on the farside of the Moon - known as the lunar farside highlands - has defied explanation for decades. But a new study led by researchers at the University of Califor ... more | .. |
![]() CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a Cosmic Dimmer Switch Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. But unlike an ordinary bulb, Sa ... more |
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