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![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 25, 2011 New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of scientists who used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as from radio, optical and other X-ray telescopes. Over three decades ago, Stephen Hawking placed - and eventually lost - a bet against the existence of a black hole in Cygnus X-1. Today, astronomers are confident the Cygnus X-1 system contains a black hole, and with these latest studies they have re ... read more |
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![]() NASA Airborne Observatory Views Star Forming Region W40 A new image from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, provides the highest resolution mid-infrared image taken to-date of the massive star formation region in our galax ... more | .. |
![]() Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter If dark matter exists in the universe, scientists now have set the strongest limit to date on its mass. In a paper to be published on Dec. 1 in Physical Review Letters (available in pdf), Brown Univ ... more | .. |
![]() Habitable Does not Mean 'Earth-Like' Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" gro ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Russia wants to focus on Moon if Mars mission fails If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday. The Mars probe was launched from ... more | .. |
![]() Europe Pushes Forward Large Astroparticle Physics Projects European funding agencies have welcomed the priorities for the future of astroparticle physics defined by the scientific community , and accepted the recommendations included in the newly published ... more | .. |
![]() The impending revolution of low-power quantum computers By 2017, quantum physics will help reduce the energy consumption of our computers and cellular phones by up to a factor of 100. For research and industry, the power consumption of transistors is a k ... more | .. |
![]() Pitt discoveries in quantum physics could change face of technology Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have made advances in better understanding correlated quantum matter that could change technology as we know it, according to a study published in Nature. ... more |
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![]() Cassini Chronicles The Life And Times Of Giant Storm On Saturn New images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a year. These new full ... more | .. |
![]() Schafer Corp Signs Licensing Agreement with MoonDust Technologies The Schafer Corporation has signed a Licensing and Development Agreement with MoonDust Technologies, LLC (MDT) of Tucson, AZ to give them exclusive, worldwide production and marketing rights for a u ... more | .. |
![]() Research group proposes first system for assessing the odds of life on other worlds Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" gro ... more | .. |
![]() Civilizations beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society Most scientists think that we are not alone in the universe. Somewhere out there, there must be other intelligent forms of life. Our radio telescopes regularly scan the galaxy in search of a signal ... more |
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![]() Flying over the three-dimensional Moon Although the Moon is so far the only celestial body other than Earth on which a human being has ever walked, the topography of its surface has not been studied comprehensively. This is why NASA's Lu ... more | .. |
![]() Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis Last January, two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev's office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 ... more | .. |
![]() Cosmic particle accelerators get things going ESA's Cluster satellites have discovered that cosmic particle accelerators are more efficient than previously thought. The discovery has revealed the initial stages of acceleration for the first tim ... more | .. |
![]() Scientists Find Evidence for Subsurface 'Great Lake' on Europa In a finding of significance in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the ... more |
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![]() VLBA observations key to 'complete description' of black hole For the first time, astronomers have produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration of mass so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravitational pull. Their precise m ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Hubble Confirms That Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This ... more | .. |
![]() In an enzyme critical for life, X-ray emission cracks mystery atom Like a shadowy character just hidden from view, a mystery atom in the middle of a complex enzyme called nitrogenase had long hindered scientists' ability to study the enzyme fully. But now an ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Probe Data Show Liquid Water Evidence on Europa Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupit ... more |
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![]() APEX gives us a new view of star formation in the Carina Nebula Using the LABOCA camera on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes, a team of astronomers led by Thomas Preibisch (Universitats-Sternwart ... more | .. |
![]() Cluster reveals Earth's bow shock is remarkably thin A new study based on data from ESA's Cluster mission has revealed that the bow shock formed by the solar wind as it encounters Earth's magnetic field is remarkably thin: it measures only 17 kilometr ... more | .. |
![]() Magnetic Fields Set the Stage for Star Birth Stars and their planets are born when giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust collapse. You've probably seen the resulting stellar nurseries in beautiful astronomical images: Colorful nebulae, lit ... more | .. |
![]() Exo planet count tops 700 Just two decades after the search for planets outside our solar system began, scientists have found more than 700, a French astronomer says. ... more |
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![]() Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields same results A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said on Friday. But co ... more | .. |
![]() LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. T ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Chandra adds to black hole birth announcement New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of scientists who used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as we ... more | .. |
![]() Pristine Gas From The Big Bang Two clumps of primordial gas from the dawn of time have been detected in deep space by astronomers using the 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory. The gas clouds are too diffuse t ... more |
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![]() NASA's Hubble Observes Young Dwarf Galaxies Bursting With Stars Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation. ... more | .. |
![]() Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more | .. |
![]() Chinese, Chilean scientists hold seminar on astrophysics, astronomy A Chinese scientific delegation held a joint seminar on astrophysics and astronomy on Monday here with the Chilean National Commission of Scientific and Technological Investigation (CONICYT). ... more | .. |
![]() Ancient stars shed light on the prehistory of the Milky Way Some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way - a kind of stellar fossils in the outer reaches of our galaxy, contain abnormally large amounts of heavy elements like gold, platinum and uranium. Wh ... more |
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