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Does prebiotic material exist in space?

Does prebiotic material exist in space?

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Spanish and French astrophysicists have identified a band in the infrared range that serves to track the presence of organic material rich in oxygen and nitrogen in the interstellar dust grains. Should any ...





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Astrophysicists find fractal image of Sun's 'Storm Season' imprinted on Solar Wind

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 24, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Plasma astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found that key information about the Sun’s 'storm season’ is being broadcast across the solar system in a fractal snapshot imprinted in the solar wind. This research ...


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Sun's corona is both hot and kinky

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created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Astrophysicists are having a heated debate over the wave structure of the Sun’s Corona - a debate which may one day influence solar weather forecasting and the theory behind fusion reactors.


First laboratory experiment to accurately model stellar jets explains mysterious 'knots'

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created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Some of the most breathtaking objects in the cosmos are the jets of matter streaming out of stars, but astrophysicists have long been at a loss to explain how these jets achieve their varied shapes. Now, laboratory research ...


2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone ...


Birth of a star predicted

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created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless ...


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Iowa astrophysicists provide the eyes for new gamma ray telescope system

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created Apr 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

There's a "First Light Fiesta" in the works at Mt. Hopkins near Amado, Ariz. And Iowa State University astrophysicists will be among those enjoying the celebration of a new telescope system and all the science ...


Astrophysicists Move Closer to Understanding the Beauty Behind Stellar Jets

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful objects in astronomers' telescopes. But while the astronomers can enjoy the beauty, they can't explain it. Adam ...


Astrophysicists map the Milky Way's 4 spiral arms

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created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Iowa State University's Martin Pohl is part of a research team that has developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms. The map shows the inner part of the Milky Way has two prominent, symmetric spiral ...


Astronomers predict the future health of unborn babies

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 25, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Astrophysicists at the University of Sussex are using their statistical expertise to help save the lives of unborn babies.


GLAST: The Challenge of Too Much New Data

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created May 22, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The astrophysics community enthusiastically awaits the upcoming launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), the latest and most powerful gamma-ray telescope. But interpreting the huge amount of new data that ...



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