News tagged with gravitational forces
Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...
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Gravitational Space Corridors Could Slash Space Travel Costs (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying space travel possibilities have proposed that gravitational space corridors could be used by spacecraft, in much the same way as ships use ocean currents. Taking advantage ...
Studying the 'mountains' and 'starquakes' that develop on neutron stars
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutron stars have the potential to play an important role in understanding some of the mysteries of the universe. One of factors that could help lead to an understanding of gravitational waves and the mechanisms ...
Why do astronauts suffer from space sickness?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2008 |
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Centrifuging astronauts for a lengthy period provided researcher Suzanne Nooij with better insight into how space sickness develops, the nausea and disorientation experienced by many astronauts. Nooij defended her PhD theses ...
Image: Prometheus Plays Tug of War with One of Saturn's Rings
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The diminutive moon Prometheus whips gossamer ice particles out of Saturn's F ring in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 21, 2009.
Planet formation could lie in stellar storms rather than gravitational instability
Dec 12, 2008 |
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New research suggests that turbulence plays a critical role in creating ripe conditions for the birth of planets. The study, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, challenges the prevailing theory of planet format ...
Sea level rise could be worse than anticipated
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 05, 2009 |
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If global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be ...
Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons
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Sep 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This ...
Superstrings could add gravitational cacophony to universe's chorus
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Albert Einstein theorized long ago that moving matter would warp the fabric of four-dimensional space-time, sending out ripples of gravity called gravitational waves. No one has observed such a phenomenon so ...
New definition could further limit habitable zones around distant suns
Jun 10, 2009 |
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As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system's habitable zone, where heat radiated from the star is just right to keep a planet's water in liquid ...
Fuzziness on the road to physics' grand unification theory
Oct 06, 2008 |
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Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down what physicists have thought for 30 years. If theoretical physicists, led by the University of Oregon's Stephen Hsu, are right, the idea that nature's forces ...
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