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Probing a link from Sahara dust to climate change

Qilong Min, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate and Professor with the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the University at Albany is developing innovative ways to measure how dust in the Sahara Desert ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

VLT takes most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Stars pop onto the scene in new WISE image

(PhysOrg.com) -- This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Herschel and Spitzer see nearby galaxies' stardust

(PhysOrg.com) -- The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions; ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

WISE presents a cosmic wreath

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some say resembles a wreath. You might even think of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

2012: Shadow of the Dark Rift

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy -- or perhaps ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

10 years after attacks on World Trade Center, human health cost is still being counted

The World Trade Center disaster exposed nearly half a million people to hazardous chemicals, environmental toxins, and traumatic events. According to research published in the December 2011 issue of Elsevier-published journal ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Revolutionary new camera reveals the dark side of the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new camera that will revolutionise the field of submillimetre astronomy has been unveiled on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii SCUBA-2 is far more sensitive and powerful ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 17

Image: Astronaut tests SAFER backpack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronaut Mark Lee tests the new backpack called Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER), a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting an EVA.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

In the heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi reveals a cosmic-ray cocoon

(PhysOrg.com) -- The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

WTC workers exposed earlier to dust cloud have higher risk of atherosclerotic lesions

In the first study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate cardiovascular risk in World Trade Center (WTC) first responders, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that the responders who experienced ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The cool clouds of Carina

(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations made with the APEX telescope in submillimetre-wavelength light reveal the cold dusty clouds from which stars form in the Carina Nebula. This site of violent star formation, which ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Planets smashed into dust near supermassive black holes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fat doughnut-shaped dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed crashes between planets and asteroids, according to a new theory from ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers explain the formation of Scheila's unusual triple dust tails

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, primarily from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Institute of Space and Astronautical ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Insoluble dust particles can form cloud droplets affecting global and regional climates

New information on the role of insoluble dust particles in forming cloud droplets could improve the accuracy of regional climate models, especially in areas of the world that have significant amounts of mineral ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast