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The Crab Nebula: Energy for 100,000 Suns
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D.
Jupiter-like planets could form around twin suns
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field.
New definition could further limit habitable zones around distant suns
Jun 10, 2009 |
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As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system's habitable zone, where heat radiated from the star is just right to keep a planet's water in liquid ...
Solar- B : Probing the most energetic explosions in the solar system
Sep 08, 2006 |
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Solar flares are tremendous explosions on the surface of our Sun, releasing as much energy as a billion megatons of TNT in the form of radiation, high energy particles and magnetic fields. The Suns magnetic fields are known ...
The Energy Sources of Ultraluminous Galaxies
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultraluminous infrared galaxies ((ULIRGs) are galaxies whose luminosity exceeds that of a trillion suns; for comparison, the Milky Way galaxy has a typical (and much more modest) luminosity ...
The Explosive Disintegration of a Young Stellar System in Orion
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars.
Planet Imager will enable telescopes to image extrasolar planets directly
Sep 29, 2009 |
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The best way to observe objects in solar systems is simply to look -- but distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere drown out much of the spectacle of space. To address this problem, Berkeley astronomer James ...
Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group.
After the collapse: Scientists observe the largest exploding star yet seen
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University managed to observe a super-sized supernova explosion from start to finish, including the black hole ending.
A new era in search for 'sister Earths'?
Jul 25, 2008 |
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Research presented at a recent astronomical conference is being hailed as ushering in a new era in the search for Earth-like planets by showing that they are more numerous than previously thought and that ...
In the hands of scientists - the power of 10,000 Suns
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Nov 04, 2005 |
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Solar research at Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland) takes a leap into the future today with the opening of the High-flux Solar Simulator. With this new instrument scientists will be able to carry out experiments under ...
Cut from different cloth
Nov 07, 2006 |
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A large survey, made with ESO's VLT, has shed light on our Galaxy's ancestry. After determining the chemical composition of over 2000 stars in the four nearest dwarf galaxies to our own, astronomers have demonstrated ...
How Low Can It Go? Sun Plunges into the Quietest Solar Minimum in a Century
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.
Our Suns fiery outbursts seen in 3D
Jul 17, 2006 |
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UK solar scientists are eagerly awaiting the launch of NASAs STEREO mission which will provide the first ever 3D views of the Sun. STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) comprises two nearly identical ...
Could Reducing Global Dimming Mean a Hotter, Dryer World?
Apr 14, 2006 |
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Despite concerns over global warming, scientists have discovered something that may have actually limited the impact of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in recent years by reducing the amount of sunlight ...
