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Astronomy's bright future
Mar 02, 2009 |
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To mark UNESCO's International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), six leading astronomers from the UK, the US, Europe and Asia write in March's Physics World about the biggest challenges and opportunities facing international astron ...
Refining the search for new planets
Feb 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- SF State's planet hunting team is trying new avenues of investigation in the quest to discover planets beyond our solar system. At the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in January, ...
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Astronomical and mathematical physics awards go to chaos and X-ray leaders
Feb 01, 2008 |
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announces the winners of the 2008 Dannie Heineman Prizes for Astrophysics and for Mathematical Physics. The mathematical physics prize goes to Mitchell Feigenbaum of Rockefeller University ...
U.S. astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski dies
Apr 24, 2007 |
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U.S. astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski, renowned for his research into celestial phenomena, has died after a three-year battle with brain cancer.
U.S. high school physics enrollment up
Jan 18, 2007 |
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U.S. high school physics class enrollment is increasing, and the number of U.S. physics bachelor's degrees is up 31 percent since 2000.
Shadow of a forming star
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from the Instituto Astrofisica Canarias (IAC) have found an interesting shadow cast by a forming star system. Team member Dr Basmah Riaz, an ER fellow for the Marie Curie ...
World event hopes to lure 1 mln to astronomy
Apr 02, 2009 |
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At sunset on Thursday, astronomers around the world will be limbering up for a 100-hour marathon aimed at celebrating the night sky and nurturing the Galileos of tomorrow.
Astronomers Discover New Star in Southern Cross
Jan 18, 2007 |
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A research team at Swarthmore College discovered a previously unknown companion to the bright star, beta Crucis, in the Southern Cross. As a prominent member of the well-known constellation Crux, or the Southern ...
Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of Europa to support oxygen-based metabolic processes for life similar to that on Earth. In fact, there may be enough ...
Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. It ...
Cookie cutter in the sky: Seeing the shape of material around black holes for first time
Dec 16, 2008 |
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Black holes can now be thought of as donut holes. The shape of material around black holes has been seen for the first time: an analysis of over 200 active galactic nuclei—cores of galaxies powered by disks ...
Astronomers produce first detailed map of dark matter in a supercluster
Jan 10, 2008 |
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For the first time astronomers are able to see indirect evidence of dark matter and how this invisible force impacts on the crowded and violent lives of galaxies. University of British Columbia researcher ...
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