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![]() Leicester UK (SPX) Jun 13, 2012 The University of Leicester has been awarded funding to establish a multi-million pound national supercomputer which will make it possible to study space in unprecedented detail and provide new insights into the history of the Universe. It will allow astronomers to address some of the most challenging problems in physics and astronomy -such as What is dark matter? How do stars form? And why do galaxies always have black holes at their centres?" The University of Leicester has been selected a ... read more |
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![]() Hubble Sees a Celestial Swan and Butterfly This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7026, a planetary nebula. Located just beyond the tip of the tail of the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), this butterfly-shaped cloud ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomer's Refining Method to "Age" the Most Abundant Stars As a part of their "Living with a Red Dwarf" program, Villanova astronomers Scott Engle and Ed Guinan are trying to understand how the most common type of star known live its lives, and what kinds o ... more | .. |
![]() Unique microbes found in extreme environment Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landsca ... more | .. | ||
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![]() CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils ... more | .. |
![]() Mapping Volcanic Heat on Io A new study finds that the pattern of heat coming from volcanoes on Io's surface disposes of the generally-accepted model of internal heating. The heat pouring out of Io's hundreds of erupting volca ... more | .. |
![]() Breaking the limits of classical physics With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense - the ... more | .. |
![]() Nano-engineered synthetic diamond sets a new quantum information record Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials, working in partnership with academics in Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Max-Planck-Institut fur Quanten ... more |
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![]() Spin structure reveals key to new forms of digital storage A synthetic compound long known to exhibit interesting transition properties may hold the key to new, non-magnetic forms of information storage, say researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center and thei ... more | .. |
![]() Discovery of the Most Distant Galaxy in the Cosmic Dawn A team of astronomers led by Takatoshi Shibuya (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Dr. Kazuaki Ota (Kyoto Univ ... more | .. |
![]() UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon At a measly 2 kilometres in diameter, the smallest of two moons recently discovered orbiting Jupiter may be the giant planet's smallest known satellite. In September of 2010, two previously unknown ... more | .. |
![]() How black holes change gear Black holes are extremely powerful and efficient engines that not only swallow up matter, but also return a lot of energy to the Universe in exchange for the mass they eat. When black holes attract ... more |
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![]() NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. These faint objects might be wildl ... more | .. |
![]() Milky Way Cupcakes: A Savior for NASA's Non-manned Missions? Can Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies prevent potentially deep cuts to NASA's space exploration budget? With a possible $300 million cut to planetary scien ... more | .. |
![]() Physicists close in on a rare particle-decay process In the biggest result of its kind in more than ten years, physicists have made the most sensitive measurements yet in a decades-long hunt for a hypothetical and rare process involving the radioactiv ... more | .. |
![]() Skeleton key Northwestern University researchers are the first to discover that very different complex networks - ranging from global air traffic to neural networks - share very similar backbones. By stripping e ... more |
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![]() Origin of particle acceleration in cusps of Earth's magnetosphere uncovered While flying through one of the cusps in Earth's magnetic field, the four spacecraft of ESA's Cluster mission have sampled the population of highly energetic particles that often fill these 'cavitie ... more | .. |
![]() UNH to Analyze "Bellwether" Solar Event Data from European Satellite When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet ... more | .. |
![]() Cosmic calculations help better understand stellar chemistry A University of Delaware-led research team reports an advance in the June 1 issue of Science that may help astrophysicists more accurately analyze the vast molecular clouds of gas and dust where sta ... more | .. |
![]() The delicate balance of star formation in the Carina Nebula A new image from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveals the glowing clouds of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula complex, one of the most massive stellar nurseries in the Milky Way. The image provi ... more |
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![]() UI's Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights. That's because Jack Scudder, UI professor of physics and astronomy, and his colleag ... more | .. |
![]() Arizona State University astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy Astronomers at Arizona State University have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light from the recently detected galaxy lef ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors A new video from NASA's Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The animation drapes high-resolution false color images over a 3-D model of the Vesta terrai ... more | .. |
![]() Quantum computers will be able to simulate particle collisions Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theorists has already figured out at least one talent they may have. According to the theorists, including one from the National Institute of St ... more |
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![]() X-ray laser probes biomolecules to individual atoms An international team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of ... more | .. |
![]() Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour. New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observ ... more | .. |
![]() XMM-Newton reveals light 'echo' around supermassive black hole Astronomers studying the galaxy NGC 4151 with ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have detected X-rays emitted and then reflected by ionised iron atoms very close to the supermassive black hole hoste ... more | .. |
![]() In tree rings, Japanese scientists find 8th-century mystery In the late eighth century, Earth was hit by a mystery blast of cosmic rays, according to a Japanese study that found a relic of the powerful event in cedar trees. ... more |
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![]() Asia witnesses partial lunar eclipse The first partial lunar eclipse of the year provided dramatic scenes across Asia late Monday, with a clear moon visible to many as the event unfolded. ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn deep in the asteroid belt orbiting Vesta Far from Earth, on the opposite side of the sun, deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn is gradually spiraling around the giant protoplanet Vesta. Under the gentle pressure of its uniquely efficient ion pr ... more | .. |
![]() Catching solar particles infiltrating Earth's atmosphere On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar particles traveling at nearly the speed of light that reached Earth about 20 minutes after the lig ... more | .. |
![]() There's more star-stuff out there but it's not Dark Matter More atomic hydrogen gas - the ultimate fuel for stars - is lurking in today's Universe than we thought, CSIRO astronomer Dr Robert Braun has found. This is the first accurate measurement of this ga ... more |
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