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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2012 Throughout the universe more than 99 percent of matter looks nothing like what's on Earth. Instead of materials we can touch and see, instead of motions we intuitively expect like a ball rolling down a hill, or a cup that sits still on a table, most of the universe is governed by rules that react more obviously to such things as magnetic force or electrical charge. It would be as if your cup was magnetized, perhaps attracted to a metal ceiling above, and instead of resting, it floats up, hovering somewh ... read more |
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![]() Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year's storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at the planet, with bluish spots in the mi ... more | .. |
![]() Indian astronomy satellite to study universe at multi-wavelengths Astrosat, the $50 million astronomy satellite India will put in polar circular orbit in 2013, will study the universe at multi-wavelengths for the first time, a senior space agency official said. "T ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomers report the earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, a shocking discovery Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed. In findings reported in the journal Nature, the astro ... more | .. | ||
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![]() UCF Discovers Exoplanet Neighbor The University of Central Florida has detected what could be its first planet, only two-thirds the size of Earth and located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33-light years aw ... more | .. |
![]() NRL Leads NASA Team Workshop on "Coronal Mass Ejection Initiation" Dr. Mark Linton, a researcher in the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division, recently convened a workshop exploring coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Dr. Linton is currently leading a NASA ... more | .. |
![]() New Notre Dame research raises questions about iris recognition systems Since the early days of iris recognition technologies, it has been assumed that the iris was a "stable" biometric over a person's lifetime - "one enrollment for life." However, new research from Uni ... more | .. |
![]() The electric atmosphere: Plasma is next NASA science target Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don't generally carry electricity and they don't stick to magnets. But l ... more |
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![]() SciTechTalk: When the sun brought darkness When a huge solar flare Thursday sent a magnetic storm heading toward earth, Americans heard the usual warnings of possible power outages, disruption of satellite communications and other effects - and for the most part ignored them. ... more | .. |
![]() Hubble Sees the Needle Galaxy, Edge-on and Up Close This image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an exquisitely detailed view of part of the disc of the spiral galaxy NGC 4565. This bright galaxy is one of the most famous example ... more | .. |
![]() New Dell fund will invest in data storage technology The chief of US computer maker Dell on Tuesday announced the launch of a $60 million fund focused on investing in technology for storing the massive amounts of data being collected by businesses. ... more | .. |
![]() Microsoft revamps Office with 'cloud' links Microsoft on Monday unveiled next-generation Office software overhauled to stay popular with people using tablets or smartphones to access programs in the Internet "cloud." ... more |
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![]() Saturn's Rings are Back It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like these of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible again because Cassini has changed the angle at which it orbit ... more | .. |
![]() Peering into the heart of a supernova Each century, about two massive stars in our own galaxy explode, producing magnificent supernovae. These stellar explosions send fundamental, uncharged particles called neutrinos streaming our way a ... more | .. |
![]() Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. These ghost-like galaxies are thought to be some of the ... more | .. |
![]() Flying along the Vela ridge A beautiful blue butterfly flutters towards a nest of warm dust and gas, above an intricate network of cool filaments in this image of the Vela C region by ESA's Herschel space observatory. Vela C i ... more |
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![]() Can Astronomers Detect Exoplanet Oceans Given the plethora of confirmed exoplanets, many researchers have turned their attention to studying these strange new worlds in greater detail. With several exoplanets thought to orbit in the "habi ... more | .. |
![]() Solar storm protection Massive explosions on the sun unleash radiation that could kill astronauts in space. Now, researchers from the U.S. and South Korea have developed a warning system capable of forecasting the radiati ... more | .. |
![]() Researchers create 'MRI' of the sun's interior motions A team of scientists has created an "MRI" of the Sun's interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface. The result, which appears in the journa ... more | .. |
![]() HI-C sounding rocket mission has finest mirrors ever made On July 11, NASA scientists will launch into space the highest resolution solar telescope ever to observe the solar corona, the million degree outer solar atmosphere. The instrument, called HI-C for ... more |
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![]() Sounds of northern lights are born close to ground For the first time, researchers at Aalto University in Finland have located where the sounds associated with the northern lights are created. The auroral sounds that have been described in folktales ... more | .. |
![]() BepiColombo Composite Spacecraft Mass Properties Measurements The mass properties of the BepiColombo Mercury Composite Spacecraft have been measured. This is the first time that the spacecraft structural and thermal model has been fully integrated, producing t ... more | .. |
![]() A roll of the dice Many of the predictions we make in everyday life are vague, and we often get them wrong because we have incomplete information, such as when we predict the weather. But in quantum mechanics, even if ... more | .. |
![]() Planetary Resources Announces Agreement with Virgin Galactic for Payload Services Planetary Resources has announced an agreement with Virgin Galactic, LLC that will enable multiple launch opportunities for its series of spacecraft, including the Arkyd-100 low-Earth orbit (LEO) sp ... more |
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![]() Cassini Flies High to View Saturn's Rings Again It's been nearly two years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had views like those it is now enjoying of Saturn's glorious rings. These views are possible again because Cassini has changed the angl ... more | .. |
![]() The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's l ... more | .. |
![]() ESA's Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environment Next year's Hollywood film Gravity features George Clooney stranded in orbit by cascading space junk. The threat is genuine, with debris levels rising steadily. ESA's new Clean Space initiative is d ... more | .. |
![]() UKIRT discovers 'impossible' binary stars A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. Until now it was thought that such ... more |
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![]() SciTechTalk: If it's the Higgs, now what? With the July 4th announcement of the possible - wait, make that probable - no, actually, make that the almost certain confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," physicists find themselves facing a fundamental question. ... more | .. |
![]() Belching black hole proves a biggie Outbursts of super-hot gas observed with a CSIRO radio telescope have clinched the identity of the first known "middleweight" black hole, Science Express reports online. Called HLX-1 ("hyper-luminou ... more | .. |
![]() The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust Imagine if the rings of Saturn suddenly disappeared. Astronomers have witnessed the equivalent around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652. Enormous amounts of dust known to circle the star ar ... more | .. |
![]() Dark matter scaffolding of universe detected for the first time Scientists have, for the first time, directly detected part of the invisible dark matter skeleton of the universe, where more than half of all matter is believed to reside. The discovery, led by a U ... more |
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