News tagged with swift
Quiet wind turbine could provide up to 30% of a home's power
Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A quiet wind turbine developed in Scotland is now available in the US and Canada. Its developers say that the roof-based turbine can provide significant power for homes and commercial buildings ...
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record (w/Video)
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent ...
Keck Study Sheds New Light on "Dark" Gamma-ray Bursts
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Since its launch in 2004, NASA's Swift has detected more than 430 gamma-ray bursts. Roughly half of them are "dark" bursts that emit little or no visible light. Dense knots of dust in otherwise normal galaxies ...
Scientists Probe Green Comet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Space scientists from the University of Leicester are keeping a close eye on a ‘green comet’ fast approaching the Earth - reaching its nearest point to us on February 24.
Blast from the Past Gives Clues About Early Universe
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the ...
NASA's Swift looks to comets for a cool view
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2008 |
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NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite rocketed into space in 2004 on a mission to study some of the highest-energy events in the universe. The spacecraft has detected more than 380 gamma-ray bursts, fleeting ...
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have published the discovery of the farthest known object in the cosmos: a star that exploded when the universe was only 630 million years old -- only 4.6% of its current age. ...
Swift Satellite records early phase of gamma ray burst
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UK astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift Satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma ray burst - the most violent and luminous explosions occurring ...
Swift makes best-ever ultraviolet portrait of Andromeda Galaxy
Sep 16, 2009 |
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In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The ...
Swift, Fermi probe fireworks from a flaring gamma-ray star (Video)
Feb 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from ...
Swift satellite comet tally highlighted
Apr 24, 2009 |
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A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown during a webcast ...
Swift’s Comet Tally
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2009 |
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A montage of comet images made using NASA’s Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown today during a live, 24-hour video ...
