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![]() Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 27, 2012 Cheaper, larger and better infrared detectors grown on silicon wafers could give more scientists access to infrared astronomy and further spur the hunt for exoplanets and the study of the universe's acceleration. Closer to home, the same technology could also advance remote sensing and medical imaging. The National Science Foundation has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $1.2 million to develop, fabricate and test a new family of detectors grown on silicon wafer substrates by Raytheon Visi ... read more |
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![]() Two Solar System Puzzles Solved Comets and asteroids preserve the building blocks of our Solar System and should help explain its origin. But there are unsolved puzzles. For example, how did icy comets obtain particles that formed ... more | .. |
![]() A pulsar with a tremendous hiccup A gamma-ray pulsar is a compact neutron star that accelerates charged particles to relativistic speeds in its extremely strong magnetic field. This process produces gamma radiation (violet) far abov ... more | .. |
![]() Dark energy and fate of the Universe Dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe and thus holds the ultimate fate of our Universe. Several possible scenarios are possible depending on the properties of ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Aurora Australis over Concordia station 18 July A stunning image showing Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights - glowing over Concordia station in the Antarctic, one of the remotest places on Earth, on 18 July 2012. It was taken by ESA-sponsored ... more | .. |
![]() Hubble Has an Audience of Stellar Flashbulbs The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit only by the flashbulbs of the audience's cameras. Yet the many stars of ... more | .. |
![]() A Taste of Solar Maximum Forecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms and more auro ... more | .. |
![]() XENON100 sets record limits for dark matter Scientists from the XENON collaboration announced a new result from their search for dark matter. The analysis of data taken with the XENON100 detector during 13 months of operation at the Gran Sass ... more |
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![]() NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun's Corona A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's million-degree atmosphere called the corona. The clarity of the images c ... more | .. |
![]() How to build a middleweight black hole A new model shows how an elusive type of black hole can be formed in the gas surrounding their supermassive counterparts. In research published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ... more | .. |
![]() Russia starts building Moon spaceship, eyes Lunar base Russia has started building a spacecraft for manned Lunar missions with the first test scheduled in 2015, the project developer said Thursday. "The work has already started. The unmanned tests are s ... more | .. |
![]() New Clues To The Early Solar System From Ancient Meteorites In order to understand Earth's earliest history - its formation from solar system material into the present-day layering of metal core and mantle, and crust - scientists look to meteorites. Ne ... more |
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![]() Disorderly conduct is a quantum experience A new experiment conducted at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) examines the relationship between quantum coherence, an important aspect of certain materials kept at low temperature, and the imperfe ... more | .. |
![]() Another Small Step for Mankind Last Friday, July 20th, was the 43rd anniversary of mankind's first extraterrestrial visit to another heavenly body. The moon. Apollo 11 was the result of decades of work by tens of thousands of res ... more | .. |
![]() SWF Announces International Dialog on Satellite Servicing and Debris Removal On-orbit servicing (OOS) and active debris removal (ADR) are part of an emerging category of future on-orbit activities that are critical for taking the next leap in our use of Earth orbit. The abil ... more | .. |
![]() Heliophysics Nugget: Riding the Plasma Wave 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 dow ... more |
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![]() Plans to revisit Moon impeded by financial difficulties Along with pure science, these plans include significant engineering advances in order to send rovers to the Moon, and return samples from its surface. Yet despite high ambitions, researchers are co ... more | .. |
![]() Solar Corona Revealed in Super-High-Definition Astronomers have released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light. The 16-megapixel imag ... more | .. |
![]() Seeds of Massive Black Holes Found at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy A research team at Keio University, led by Associate Professor Tomoharu Oka, has discovered intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 30,000 l ... more | .. |
![]() Hot nuclear matter A review article appearing in the journal Science describes groundbreaking discoveries that have emerged from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven ... more |
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![]() Russia says no manned moon shots till 2018 Russia's timetable for manned flights to the moon has been pushed back two more years with no launches until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency said. ... more | .. |
![]() Physicist bemoans lack of science classes Noted British physicist Brian Cox says so many young people are interested in a career in science there is a shortage in college classes to meet the demand. ... more | .. |
![]() Colorful science sheds light on solar heating A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information - often through graphs and images. Such visualiza ... more | .. |
![]() River networks on Titan point to a puzzling geologic history For many years, Titan's thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn's largest moon appeared through telescopes as a hazy orange orb, in contra ... 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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