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![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 23, 2011 In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average1 solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure how to categorize it. The blast peppered Earth with the most energetic protons in half-a-millennium, induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire, and sparked Northern Lights over Cuba and Hawaii. This week, officials have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to ask themselves ... read more |
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![]() A Galactic Crash Investigation A team of scientists has studied the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster. They have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes in space and on the ... more | .. |
![]() Microlensing Finds a Rocky Planet In planet hunting today, there seems to be one burning question that nearly every new article published touches on: Where did these planets come from? As astronomers discovered the first extrasolar ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Saltwater ocean lurks beneath Saturn moon - study A strange moon of Saturn may have a salty ocean lurking beneath its iceball surface, according to a study appearing Wednesday in the British journal Nature. ... more | .. |
![]() Public Invited to Find Destination for New Horizons The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the IceHunters.org website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomers Discover That Galaxies Are Either Asleep or Awake Astronomers have probed into the distant universe and discovered that galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors: they are either awake or asleep, actively forming stars or are not forming any n ... more | .. |
![]() Hyperactive Hartley 2 Hartley 2's hyperactive state, as studied by NASA's EPOXI mission, is detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science by an international team of scientists. After visiting a comet an ... more |
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![]() LRO Showing Us the Moon as Never Before NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has forever changed our view of the moon, literally bringing it into sharper focus and showing us the whole globe in unprecedented detail. This rich n ... more | .. |
![]() International team to discover neutrinos can change 'flavors' An international research team led by Japan and including the University of Colorado Boulder may have taken a significant step in discovering why matter trumped antimatter at the time of the Big Ban ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. At closest approach, on June 18, Cassini f ... more | .. |
![]() Self-assembling Electronic Nano-components Magnetic storage media such as hard drives have revolutionized the handling of information: We are used to dealing with huge quantities of magnetically stored data while relying on highly sensitive ... more |
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![]() NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest NASA's largest supercomputer is seventh on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in ... more | .. |
![]() Scientist analyzes the nucleus of comet Hartley 2 Nearly one year ago, a repurposed NASA spacecraft flew by the comet Hartley 2. As a result, a multitude of high-resolution images were gathered over 50 days that allow scientists to understand the n ... more | .. |
![]() Model Ordinance to Promote Responsible Outdoor Lighting International Dark-Sky Association The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) announce public release of the Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO), a valuab ... more | .. |
![]() Firestorm of Star Birth in the Active Galaxy Centaurus A Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-in ... more |
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![]() Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds New Distant Comet Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013. Originally found by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on ... more | .. |
![]() Scientists Prove Existence of Magnetic Ropes that Cause Solar Storms George Mason University scientists discovered recently that a phenomenon called a giant magnetic rope is the cause of solar storms. Confirming the existence of this formation is a key first step in ... more | .. |
![]() MESSENGER Endures Its First Hot Season Yesterday the MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed the first of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit about Mercury. During these hot seasons, the ... more | .. |
![]() A golden age of exoplanet discovery An exciting meeting yesterday, Wednesday 15 June 2011, held at the Institute of Physics (IOP) in partnership with the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), saw leading experts explain how far the field ... more |
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![]() European endorsement for space hazards program The European Commission recently set out the EU's main space priorities, which include protection of Europe's space assets. The affirmation spotlights the Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Pro ... more | .. |
![]() Coming Into Focus Minor Planet Vesta While NASA's space probe Dawn is continuing its approach towards Vesta, the camera system on board is beginning to show the giant asteroid in more and more detail. The newest pictures taken on ... more | .. |
![]() Black hole kills star and blasts 3.8 billion light year beam at Earth Research led by astronomers at the University of Warwick has confirmed that the flash from one of the biggest and brightest bangs yet recorded by astronomers comes from a massive black hole at the c ... more | .. |
![]() Japanese supercomputer becomes world's fastest A Japanese supercomputer has become the fastest in the world, making calculations more than three times faster than a Chinese rival, its developers said Monday. ... more |
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![]() UMD-Led EPOXI Science Team Publishes Latest Comet Findings Comet Hartley 2, is in a hyperactive class of its own compared to other comets visited by spacecraft, says a University of Maryland-led study published in the June 17 issue of the journal Science. T ... more | .. |
![]() Penn State expert determined to find life on Earth-like planets Thanks to popular Hollywood films like "E.T.," "Avatar" and "Super 8," life on other planets seems highly conceivable to people who have considered the idea that we are not alone in the universe. Ji ... more | .. |
![]() CMU and Astrobotic Technology Complete Structural Assembly of Lunar Lander Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have completed structural assembly of the lunar landing craft that will deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon in 2014. The hal ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Spacecraft Confirms Theories, Sees Surprises at Mercury NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important clues to the origin of the planet and ... more |
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![]() MESSENGER Provides New Data about Mercury After nearly three months in orbit about Mercury, MESSENGER's payload is providing a wealth of new information about the planet closest to the Sun, as well as a few surprises. The spacecraft e ... more | .. |
![]() Science Paper Details NASA Epoxi Flyby of Hyper Comet Comet Hartley 2's hyperactive state, as studied by NASA's EPOXI mission, is detailed in a new paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science. After visiting a comet and imaging distant ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... more | .. |
![]() Star-eating black hole sends flash from distant galaxy A bright gamma-ray flash seen in March came from a distant galaxy nearly four billion light years away where a Sun-sized star was being eaten by a black hole, US astronomers said Thursday. ... more |
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