Space
Satellite Catches a Star Going ‘Kaboom!’
When a gigantic star blows up, astronomers call it a “supernova.” Over the past 100 years, astronomers have observed thousands of these explosions. But in every case, they were seeing the star after the explosion took place. They were seeing the hot debris from the explosion racing outward. It would be like seeing fireworks a […]
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Secrets Of Massive Black Hole Unveiled: Workings Of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators Discovered
by ScienceDaily
At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. The leading theory says the particles are accelerated by tightly-twisted magnetic fields close to the black hole, but confirming […]
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Mars Radar Instruments Work Together To Discover Hidden Martian Secrets
by ScienceDaily.com
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A radar instrument co-sponsored by NASA on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has looked beneath the surface of Mars and opened up a new dimension for planetary exploration.
The technique’s success is prompting scientists to think of other places in the solar system where they would like to use radar […]
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What Are The Odds Of Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life?
by Science Daily
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Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such […]
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Solar System’s ‘look-alike’ found
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by Paul Rincon
Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own.
They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun.
Martin Dominik, from St Andrews University in the UK, said the finding suggested […]
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The Ultimate Paper Airplane
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by Gregory Mone
Japanese scientists team up with origami masters to launch paper airplanes in space.
Japan’s space agency gave it the OK. A famous astronaut says he’d get involved. They even tested a prototype in a wind tunnel. Still, it does sound nearly too off-the-wall to be true: Japanese scientists have […]
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