News tagged with polarimetry
Scientist fine-tune Hubble Space Telescope
Mar 25, 2009 |
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A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology has expanded the Hubble Space Telescope's capability without the need for new instruments or billions of dollars.
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New aerosol observing technique turns gray skies to blue (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny, ubiquitous particles in the atmosphere may play a profound role in regulating global climate. But the scientists who study these particles -- called aerosols -- have long struggled to ...
Study confirms supermassive black holes produce powerful galaxy-shaping winds
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Supermassive black holes can produce powerful winds that shape a galaxy and determine their own growth, confirms a group of scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology.
A dust factory around a dead star
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, led by Loretta Dunne from the University of Nottingham, have found some very unusual stardust. In a paper to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...
Asymmetric ashes
Nov 30, 2006 |
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Astronomers are reporting remarkable new findings that shed light on a decade-long debate about one kind of supernovae, the explosions that mark a star's final demise: does the star die in a slow burn or with ...
Results promising for computational quantum chemical methods for drug development
Dec 20, 2007 |
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New research, led by a Virginia Tech chemist, may someday help natural-products chemists decrease by years the amount of time it takes for the development of certain types of medicinal drugs. The research by T. Daniel Crawford, ...
Chemical reaction research to evaluate extraterrestrial samples
Mar 30, 2006 |
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Researchers have identified a new test case that could be used for evaluating extraterrestrial samples for evidence of life. The new test could ultimately allow the use of simpler analytical instrumentation on future space ...
Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2007 |
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A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases – sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles – appears to have lost ground.
Rare transit of Mercury
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Scientists from Williams College and the University of Arizona observed Mercury in front of Venus from vantage points on earthbound mountains and with orbiting spacecraft on Wednesday.
Viking navigation hypothesis under foggy and cloudy skies requires more light
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Feb 27, 2007 |
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While history portrays the Vikings as skillful masters of the sea, sailing treacherous routes in the northern Atlantic Ocean during the 10th-13th centuries, just how much knowledge, technology and ability they ...
Scientific heart of giant telescope comes together
Jan 28, 2005 |
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In the spring of 2005, when the new Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) trains its huge eye on the southern sky for the first time, the starlight it gathers will be parsed and analyzed by an instrument ...
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