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Unique sky survey brings new objects into focus

Unique sky survey brings new objects into focus

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

An innovative sky survey has begun returning images that will be used to detect unprecedented numbers of powerful cosmic explosions-called supernovae-in distant galaxies, and variable brightness stars in our ...





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Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae

Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microwave satellite imagery has revealed that Tropical Storm Mirinae is strengthening enough to develop an eye, and that's what it's doing. Mirinae was formerly Tropical Depression 23W, but became a tropical ...


NASA microwave image sees eyewall opening in Hurricane Linda

NASA microwave image sees eyewall opening in Hurricane Linda

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Linda managed to power up to hurricane status at 11 p.m. EDT last night (September 9), and she's running into cooler waters and wind shear, so she's not expected to hold that strength through tomorrow. Microwave ...


It's a boy? Tropical Depression 18-E forms in the Eastern North Pacific

It's a boy? Tropical Depression 18-E forms in the Eastern North Pacific

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created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At 11 a.m. EDT on October first, the eighteenth tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was born. He's a little guy, but is likely going to grow up to be a tropical storm and get the name ...


String Theory Gets a Boost

String Theory Gets a Boost

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (110) | comments 2 feature

Among the scientific theories that excite a great deal of controversy are those theories that deal with strings. And the idea of cosmic strings gets as much play as any in scientific circles.


Planck first light yields promising results

Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...


Artist concept of Aura spacecraft

After Five Years, NASA's Aura Shines Brightly

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- On July 15, 2004, NASA's Aura spacecraft launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on a mission to study Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. Aura's data are helping scientists ...


Typhoon Choi-Wan swinging by Japan on weekend

Typhoon Choi-Wan swinging by Japan on weekend

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created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Typhoon Choi-Wan passed the island of Iwo To stirring up heavy surf, hurricane-force winds and torrential, flooding rains. This weekend, it will continue on its northeasterly track paralleling Japan, while ...


Could the Universe be tied up with cosmic string?

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (93) | comments 10

A team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the entire Universe.


Mirinae intensifying while moving away from the northern Marianas

Mirinae intensifying while moving away from the northern Marianas

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Typhoon Mirinae is moving west and away from the Northern Marianas Islands on a track to a landfall in the Philippines by the weekend. As Mirinae has moved west, NASA's infrared and microwave satellite imagery ...


Typhoon Mirinae already raining on the Philippines

Typhoon Mirinae already raining on the Philippines

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that Typhoon Mirinae's cold thunderstorm clouds were already over sections of the central and northern Philippines on October 30 at 4:53 p.m. (Asia/Manila) ...



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