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Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 08, 2009 |
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When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Cocoa Beach realized that something was up.
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A faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation.
Sea level stargazing: Astronomers make key sighting with Florida telescope
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This summer, University of Florida astronomers inaugurated the world's largest optical telescope on a nearly 8,000-foot mountaintop 3,480 miles away. But it was a far more modest observatory, located just ...
Sunlight Trap Could Lead to New Generation of Solar Devices
Jun 11, 2009 |
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In the Greek legend of Dionysius' ear, Dionysius made a cave shaped like an ellipse in order to hear the words whispered by a prisoner in one of the foci of the cave. Some science museums today feature a similar ...
Discoveries shed new light on how the brain processes what the eye sees
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how ...
Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea of the space elevator just got a little crazier. While the “traditional” concept involved using rocket propulsion or laser light pressure to propel loads up a cable anchored to Earth, ...
Biggest Full Moon of the Year
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2008 |
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No, you can not see Neil Armstrong's footprint. But go ahead and look: The full Moon of Dec. 12th is the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year.
Images for 3D Video Games Without High Price Tags or Stretch Marks
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3D video games are often hand painted and thus costly to generate. A breakthrough from ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Fine Tunes Course for May Landing
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 11, 2008 |
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NASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25 landing on the Red Planet.
An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy
Mar 17, 2008 |
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This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the debris of a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth.
Earth's orbit creates more than a leap year
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 08, 2008 |
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The Earth's orbital behaviors are responsible for more than just presenting us with a leap year every four years. According to Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences ...
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