News tagged with orbital septum
Why do eyelids sag with age? New study answers mystery
Aug 26, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (8) |
0
Many theories have sought to explain what causes the baggy lower eyelids that come with aging, but UCLA researchers have now found that fat expansion in the eye socket is the primary culprit. As a result, ...
Search results for orbital septum
TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2009 |
1 / 5 (1) |
1
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed ...
Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (14) |
0
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...
Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)
Nov 27, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (17) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...
Infrared Image of Circumstellar Disk Illuminates Massive Star Formation Process
Nov 24, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (5) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from Ibaraki University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa University, University of Tokyo, Academica Sinica, and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ...
Astronauts take spacewalk No. 3 after suit snag
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(AP) -- A pair of astronauts stepped out on the third and final spacewalk of their shuttle mission Monday, helping to install an enormous oxygen tank at the International Space Station.
Hunting for Planets in the Dark
Nov 19, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (5) |
5
A proposed space mission that aims to measure dark energy could also detect planets that current surveys are unable to find.
Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Tilted Extrasolar Planet
Nov 18, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (6) |
1
Astronomers have found that the extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. Studying such planets is important in understanding the diversity of planetary systems and assessing current ...
Drug for erectile dysfunction improves heart function in young heart-disease patients
Nov 18, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Heart function significantly improved in children and young adults with single-ventricle congenital heart disease who have had the Fontan operation following treatment with sildenafil, a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction ...
First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful
Nov 16, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...
Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (7) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there.
List of search results for orbital septum
