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Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest ...
Air Force grant to tighten online encryption
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientist Rafael Pass is seeking new approaches to cryptographic security with a $600,000, five-year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.
NASA Launches Web Site for Teenagers That Want More Class
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has launched a new Web site created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct real experiments with ...
Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Dying, for stars, has just gotten more complicated. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what a group of physicists is calling an electroweak star.
SwRI's integrated avionics control NASA's WISE spacecraft
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2009 |
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NASA's latest spacecraft, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched Dec. 14, carries an ultra-sensitive infrared instrument that will take nearly 1.5 million images of the sky at four wavelengths and provide ...
WISE satellite blasts off on space-map mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2009 |
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NASA launched Monday a new breed of satellite called WISE on a mission to orbit Earth and map the skies to find elusive cosmic objects, including potentially dangerous asteroids.
