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05-27-2006
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| |  Astronomers Use Innovative Technique to Find Extrasolar Planet
An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, using simple off-the-shelf equipment to trawl the skies for planets outside our solar system, has hauled in its first "catch."
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/2006-22-a_thumb.jpgThe astronomers discovered...  |
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05-19-2006
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| | New solar system found
Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/phot-18a-06-normal_thumb.jpgThe innermost planet is... |
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05-18-2006
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| | A ruler to measure the universe
A team of astronomers led by Nikhil Padmanabhan and David Schlegel has published the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever constructed, a wedge-shaped slice of the cosmos that spans a tenth of the northern sky, encompasses 600,000 uniquely luminous red galaxies, and extends... |
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05-16-2006
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| | In Search of Crater Chains
As the fragments of shattered comet 73P/Schwassmann Wachmann 3 glide harmlessly past Earth this month in full view of backyard telescopes, onlookers can't help but wonder, what if a comet like that didn't miss, but actually hit our planet?
For the answer to that question, we look to... |
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05-15-2006
by Jay-qu | |
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| | Solar Cycle 25 could be one of the weakest in centuries.
The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, according to research by NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "It's off the bottom of the charts," he says. "This has important repercussions for future solar activity." ... |
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05-12-2006
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| | Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst
Homeowners may have to worry about floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes destroying their homes, but at least they can remove long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from their list of potential natural disasters, according to recent findings by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... |
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05-10-2006
by Jay-qu | |
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| | Milky Way A Field Of Streams
A new map of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy reveals a night sky criss-crossed with streams of stars, left behind by smaller satellite galaxies and star clusters ripped apart by the parent galaxy's gravity.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/field_of_streams_thumb.pngAnalyzing five years... |
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05-09-2006
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05-08-2006
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05-05-2006
by arkain101 | |
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| | Follow the nitrogen to extraterrestrial life
The great search for extraterrestrial life has focused on water at the expense of a crucial element, say geobiologists at the University of Southern California.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/Mars_image_H_463198_thumb.jpgWriting in the Perspectives section of the May 5 issue... |
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05-04-2006
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04-27-2006
by Tormod | |
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| | Evidence mounts for sun's companion star
The Binary Research Institute (BRI) has found that orbital characteristics of the recently discovered planetoid, "Sedna", demonstrate the possibility that our sun might be part of a binary star system.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/pia03149_modest_thumb.jpgA binary star... |
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04-26-2006
by Jay-qu | |
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| | Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble Telescope!
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies involved in the project, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing this image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever... |
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04-26-2006
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| | ESA's ISO provides the first view of monstrous stars being born
Scientists have secured their first look at the birth of monstrous stars that shine 100 000 times more brightly than the Sun, thanks to ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/18339_NIR_contours_thumb.jpgThe discovery allows astronomers to... |
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04-21-2006
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| | Mars Express uncovers possible sites for life
By mapping minerals on the surface of Mars using the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, scientists have discovered the three ages of Martian geological history, and found valuable clues as to where life might have developed.
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04-20-2006
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| | Venus Meets a Planet Named George
Ancient people didn't have TV or electric lights. So, when the sun went down every night, they got their entertainment by watching the sky. And it was entertaining. Without city lights to interfere, the Milky Way was spectacular. Meteors flitted across the sky. Zodiacal lights chased the sunset.... |
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04-18-2006
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| | Hubble Finds that the 'Tenth Planet' is Slightly Larger than Pluto
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has resolved the "tenth planet," nicknamed "Xena," for the first time and has found that it is only just a little larger than Pluto.
Though previous ground-based observations suggested that Xena was about 30 percent greater in diameter than... |
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04-12-2006
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| | MINOS experiment sheds light on mystery of neutrino disappearance
Physicists from The University of Texas at Austin, as part of an international collaboration of scientists, observed the disappearance of neutrinos during a Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment, a finding that could help explain the role of these subatomic particles in... |
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04-12-2006
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| | Scientists Discover The Universe's Strongest Magnetic Field
Scientists from The University of Exeter and the International University, Bremen have discovered what is thought to be the strongest magnetic field in the Universe.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/mag_field_thumb.jpgIn a paper in the journal Science, Dr Daniel Price and... |
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04-02-2006
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