News tagged with bow shocks
Help! My stars are leaking!
Star clusters are wonderful test beds for theories of stellar formation and evolution. One of the key roles they play is to help astronomers understand the distribution of stellar masses as stars form (in ...
Sep 16, 2011 |
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New ways to measure magnetism around the sun
Those who study the sun face an unavoidable hurdle in their research – their observations must be done from afar. Relying on images and data collected from 90 million miles away, however, makes it tough ...
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Jul 14, 2011 |
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The shocking environment of hot Jupiters
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter-like worlds around other stars push shock waves ahead of them, according to a team of UK astronomers. Just as the Earth's magnetic "bow-shock" protects us from the high-energy solar ...
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)
Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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China sets pace for smoggy Hong Kong: think-tank
Beijing's decision to come clean on its dirty air has embarrassed Hong Kong, where smog kills hundreds of people a year, hurts business and drives away talent, a think-tank has said.
Jan 15, 2012 |
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Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars. This sheds new light on how stars ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Amazon gathering anti-tax signatures outside retail stores
Amazon.com Inc. is giving bricks-and-mortar retailers yet another reason to fume.
Aug 07, 2011 |
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A pulsar's mysterious tail
(PhysOrg.com) -- A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail -- or so it seems. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found that this pulsar, known as PSR J0357+3205 (or PSR J0357 ...
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Baby star blasts jets of water into space
Astronomers have found a nascent star 750 light years from earth that shoots colossal jets of water -- a cosmic fire hose -- out its poles in bullet-like pulses.
Jun 22, 2011 |
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A year after BP spill, US vows to restore Gulf
Residents bowed their heads at a sunrise vigil Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the massive blowout on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, which unleashed the biggest maritime oil spill in history and blackened ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Speed demon creates a shock
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as some drivers obey the speed limit while others treat every road as if it were the Autobahn, some stars move through space faster than others. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, ...
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Runaway star plows through space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared ...
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Cosmology standard candle not so standard after all
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as ...
Jan 12, 2011 |
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