http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Gamma-Ray Bursts are the most powerful explosive events in the Universe. They occur in far-off galaxies and so are usually faint. But on the morning of March 19th 2008 the Swift satellite found a burst which was so bright it could have been seen without binoculars or a telescope even though it was seven thousand times further away than the Andromeda galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news125227383.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:23:03 EST news125227383 UK space scientist Emeritus Professor Alan Wells is to speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston in February on International Cooperation in Developing Swift and its Scientific Achievements. http://www.physorg.com/news122400274.html Space & Earth Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:04:34 EST news122400274 A montage of comet images made using NASA`s Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown today during a live, 24-hour video webcast called `Around the World in 80 Telescopes.` Organized by the European Southern Observatory headquartered in Garching, Germany, the webcast is part of the 100 Hours of Astronomy project, a worldwide celebration of astronomy running through April 5. http://www.physorg.com/news158250873.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:35:06 EST news158250873 (PhysOrg.com) -- UK astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift Satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma ray burst - the most violent and luminous explosions occurring in the Universe since the Big Bang. The work was published on Friday 27th February in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news155223470.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:38:28 EST news155223470 A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown during a webcast called "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" Organized by the European Southern Observatory headquartered in Garching, Germany. http://www.physorg.com/news159812197.html Space & Earth Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:18:42 EST news159812197 Worldwide, 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas is wasted every year. Now, the Denver-based company Swift LNG aims to turn that gas into a usable liquid fuel with a thermoacoustic natural gas liquefaction technology just licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news92419771.html Technology Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:09:31 EST news92419771 (PhysOrg.com) -- A quiet wind turbine developed in Scotland is now available in the US and Canada. Its developers say that the roof-based turbine can provide significant power for homes and commercial buildings alike. http://www.physorg.com/news144674984.html Technology Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:29:44 EST news144674984 (PhysOrg.com) -- "Twinkle, twinkle little star" goes the nursery rhyme. Now, astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- and then vanished. http://www.physorg.com/news142011561.html Space & Earth Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:39:21 EST news142011561 (PhysOrg.com) -- Space scientists from the University of Leicester are keeping a close eye on a ‘green comet` fast approaching the Earth - reaching its nearest point to us on February 24. http://www.physorg.com/news154342687.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:59:08 EST news154342687 In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own. http://www.physorg.com/news172325981.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:30:03 EST news172325981 (PhysOrg.com) -- While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date. http://www.physorg.com/news177073969.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:14:51 EST news177073969 Nine Dutch Aerospace Engineering students at the Delft University of Technology, together with the Department of Experimental Zoology of Wageningen University, designed the RoboSwift. http://www.physorg.com/news103980280.html Technology Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:24:40 EST news103980280 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen. http://www.physorg.com/news160143442.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:17:50 EST news160143442 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stargazers are in for a unique treat tonight: the planet Earth will pass through the debris train of the Swift-Tuttle comet this evening which astronomers call the Perseid meteor shower. http://www.physorg.com/news169398787.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:14:20 EST news169398787 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast, designated GRB 080913, arose from an exploding star 12.8 billion light-years away. http://www.physorg.com/news141318287.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:04:47 EST news141318287