News tagged with center
Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole
Sep 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ...
Voiding the Cosmic Void: We're not at Center of the Universe After All
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Models of the universe that place us near the center of a large, sparse region don't jibe with astronomical observations. Cosmologists at the University of British Columbia reached the conclusion through a new analysis that ...
The M2-F1: 'Look Ma! No Wings!'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in the Antelope Valley nearly a half century ago.
The Edge of a Black Hole
Aug 18, 2009 |
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The existence of black holes is one of the most amazing and bizarre predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Despite his original misgivings about their reality, massive black hole holes are today believed ...
Resolving a galactic mystery
Apr 29, 2009 |
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An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our Galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the Galaxy. The glow in the region covered ...
NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that ...
Fermi telescope reveals best-ever view of the gamma-ray sky
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new map combining nearly three months of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is giving astronomers an unprecedented look at the high-energy cosmos. To Fermi's eyes, the universe ...
Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest
Nov 16, 2009 |
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An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is ...
Researchers See the 'Dark Side' of the Sun
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Today, NASA researchers announced an event that will transform our view of the Sun and, in the process, super-charge the field of solar physics for many years to come.
Space panel considers alternatives to NASA's plan for moon base
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2009 |
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A presidential space panel on Thursday challenged NASA's vision of establishing a base on the moon and instead weighed other ambitious options that include free-ranging spaceships that could visit destinations throughout ...
Rsearchers discover brain's memory 'buffer' in single cells
Jan 25, 2009 |
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Individual nerve cells in the front part of the brain can hold traces of memories on their own for as long as a minute and possibly longer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
Duke team finds compounds that prevent nerve damage
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Duke University Medical Center scientists have made a significant finding that could lead to better drugs for several degenerative diseases including Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Compounds that block the ...
Boulder-sized Asteroid Will Burn Up in Earth's Atmosphere Tonight
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny asteroid discovered just hours ago at an Arizona observatory will enter Earth's atmosphere harmlessly at approximately 10:46 p.m. Eastern time tonight (2:46 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time). ...
Quantum communication through synergy
Jan 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think of quantum communication, they think in terms of private communication channels - the ability to send messages without a third-party deciphering them. Indeed, quantum cryptography represents ...
New visualization techniques yield star formation insights
Dec 31, 2008 |
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New computer visualization technology developed by the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing has helped astrophysicists understand that gravity plays a larger role than previously thought in deep space's ...
