Archive for the ‘planets’ Category
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
The European Space Agency (ESA) signalled the start of a busy period for the planet Mercury, when it signed the contract for industrial development to start for the BepiColombo mission today (18th January 2008) at Astrium in Friedrichshafen, Germany. UK scientists and industry have key roles in BepiColombo, including construction ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Artist depiction of the white dwarf in the AE Aquarii system Image right: The white dwarf in the AE Aquarii system is the first star of its type known to give off pulsar-like pulsations that are powered by its rotation and particle acceleration. (Credit: Casey Reed)
New observations from Suzaku, a ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays. Their research, published in the Journal Nature on November 4th, was carried out using the High ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
By working in synergy with a ground-based telescope array, the joint Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/NASA Suzaku X-ray observatory is shedding new light on some of the most energetic objects in our galaxy, but objects that remain shrouded in mystery.
These cosmic powerhouses pour out vast amounts of energy, and they ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Astronomers are searching for gravitational waves in space, a feat that would literally change what we know about the cosmos. Using new tools to look at the universe, says Patrick Brady, often has led to discoveries that change the course of science. History is full of examples.
"Galileo was the first ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project.Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
In a computer model, researchers at Illinois were able to simulate the photosynthetic behavior of actual leaves. Here, a gas exchange system measures the rate of carbon dioxide and electron transport in intact leaves. (Credit: Photo by Don Hamerman)
University of Illinois researchers have built a better plant, one that produces ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
One of the Auger Observatory's surface detectors. The Andes Mountains provide a snow-capped backdrop to the west of the surface detector array. (Credit: Pierre Auger Observatory)
Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration announced November 8 that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the highest-energy cosmic ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
The orange shapes in this image represent the magma chamber -- a chamber of molten and partly molten rock -- beneath the giant volcanic crater known as the Yellowstone caldera, which is represented by the rusty-colored outline at the top. The red rectangular slab-like feature is a computer-generated representation of ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
As plant species around the world go extinct, natural habitats become less productive and contain fewer total plants -- a situation that could ultimately compromise important benefits that humans get from nature. (Credit: Michele Hogan)
An international team of scientists has published a new analysis showing that as plant species around ...
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