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Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny GalaxiesPasadena CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2011 Astronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies. "It's like finding a sumo wrestler in a little 'Smart Car,'" said Don Neill, a member of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and lead author of a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal. "The most powerful explosions of massive stars are happening in extreme ... read more |
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  Citizen Scientists Making Incredible Discoveries "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known," wrote Carl Sagan. And now you can be the one to find it, thanks to Zooniverse, a unique citizen science website. Zooniverse volunteers, who ... more | .. |
 STEREO Turns Its Steady Gaze On Variable Stars Researchers have discovered 122 new eclipsing binary stars and observed hundreds more variable stars in an innovative survey using NASA's two STEREO solar satellites. The survey has been carried out ... more | .. |
 Cascading Material Pours onto a Young Star Astronomer Joel Green of The University of Texas at Austin has been following a rare massive flare from a nascent star similar to the early Sun using the European Space Agency's infrared Herschel Sp ... more | .. |
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  Electron Beams Link Saturn with Its Moon Enceladus Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed that Enceladus, one of Saturn's diminutive moons, is linked to Saturn by powerful electrical currents - beams of electrons that flow back and forth ... more | .. |
  Did the Early Universe Have One Dimension Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010 ... more | .. |
 A Disturbed Galactic Duo The galaxies in this cosmic pairing, captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, display some curious features, demonstrating that each ... more | .. |
  New Tools To Tackle A Solar Data Storm So great is the wealth of data about the Sun now being sent back by space missions such as SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) that scientists back on Earth can struggle to keep pa ... more |
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  India Eyeing Collaboration With JPL In 2016 NASA Lunar Mission India could be part of the 2016 NASA Lunar Mission with its space agency ISRO mulling a collaboration with the US-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory on study of farther side of the moon. "We are ... more | .. |
  Tuning Into ExoPlanet Radio Detecting exoplanets that orbit at large distances from their star remains a challenge for planet hunters. Now, scientists at the University of Leicester have shown that emissions from the radio aur ... more | .. |
  Telescopes looking for alien life shut off A telescope array in California built to listen for signals from distant alien civilizations has been shut down for lack of money, its operators say. ... more | .. |
 Black Trees Under Two Suns A sky with two suns is a favorite image for science fiction films, but how would a binary star system affect life evolving on an orbiting planet? Jack O'Malley-James of the University of St. A ... more |
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 Antarctic lake hides bizarre ecosystem In the eerie bluish-purple depths of an Antarctic lake, scientists have discovered otherworldly mounds that tell tales of the planet's early days. Bacteria slowly built the mounds, known as stromato ... more | .. |
  3-D towers of information double data storage areal density Using well-known patterned media, a team of researchers in France has figured out a way to double the areal density of information by essentially cutting the magnetic media into small pieces and bui ... more | .. |
 Achieving Eternal Life Animals that reproduce asexually by somatic cloning have special mechanisms that delay aging provide exceptionally good health. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have shown how colony-formi ... more | .. |
  Meteor shower approaching peak Skywatchers hoping for an impressive astronomical display say the Lyrid meteor shower should reach its peak over the next two days, experts in Britain said. ... more |
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DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
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 CERN atom smasher sets new record The world's biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for beam intensity, a key measure of performance and power, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Friday. ... more | .. |
  A Galactic Rose Highlights Hubble's 21st Anniversary In celebration of the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers pointed Hubble at an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. ... more | .. |
 New Kid On The Plasmonic Block With its promise of superfast computers and ultrapowerful optical microscopes among the many possibilities, plasmonics has become one of the hottest fields in high-technology. However, to date plasm ... more | .. |
 Could Low-Cost Space Missions Keep Astronomy Aiming High Whether in the present so-called 'age of austerity' or more generous times, arguing for funds for space exploration can sometimes be hard and constrained budgets mean that some excellent scientific ... more |
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 Scientists See Solar Outburst In Exquisite Detail The largest disturbances to the Earth's geomagnetic environment occur when it is buffeted by solar material hurled in our direction by explosive changes in the Sun's atmosphere. These Coronal Mass E ... more | .. |
 Radio signals could 'tag' distant planets British astronomers say the search for exoplanets outside our solar system could seek out radio "auroras" like ones detected on Jupiter and Saturn. ... more | .. |
 The Shocking Environment Of Hot Jupiters Jupiter-like worlds around other stars push shock waves ahead of them, according to a team of U.K. astronomers. Just as the Earth's magnetic "bow-shock" protects us from the high-energy solar wind, ... more | .. |
 Large Galaxies Stopped Growing Seven Billion Years Ago Galaxies are thought to develop by the gravitational attraction between and merger of smaller 'sub-galaxies', a process that standard cosmological ideas suggest should be ongoing. But new data ... more |
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
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 Search For Dark Matter Moves One Step Closer To Detecting Elusive Particle Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other instituti ... more | .. |
 IAU Global Office Of Astronomy For Development Launched The South African Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor, has launched the IAU Global Office of Astronomy for Development at the headquarters of the South African Astronomical Observa ... more | .. |
 Zoom-Up Star Photos Poke Holes In Century-Old Astronomical Theory The hottest stars in the universe spin so fast that they get a bit squished at their poles and dimmer around their middle. The 90-year-old theory that predicts the extent of this "gravity darkening" ... more | .. |
 Kepler's Census Of Sun-Like Stars NASA's Kepler Mission has detected changes in brightness in 500 Sun-like stars, giving astronomers a much better idea about the nature and evolution of the stars. Prior to Kepler's launch in M ... more |
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 Celestial Fireworks From Dying Stars This image of the nebula NGC 3582, which was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows giant loops of gas bearing a striking ... more | .. |
 The Watched Pot And Fast CMEs Back in 2008, the solar cycle plunged into the deepest minimum in nearly a century. Sunspots all but vanished, solar flares subsided, and the sun was eerily quiet. "Ever since, we've been wait ... more | .. |
 Far-Future Astronomers Could Still Deduce The Big Bang One trillion years from now, an alien astronomer in our galaxy will have a difficult time figuring out how the universe began. They won't have the evidence that we enjoy today. Edwin Hubble ma ... more | .. |
Israel becomes CERN nuclear group member Israel's cabinet on Sunday announced it had approved the country's membership in the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, becoming the research group's first non-European delegation. ... more |
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