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Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock band Queen, earned his PhD in astronomy last year from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud has ju ...
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Solar games at Paranal
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 02, 2008 |
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Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. Stunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as ...
Saturn dominates during March, while Jupiter moves onto the stage
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Saturn will be easily visible almost all night during March, glowing bright yellow among the stars of the constellation Leo the Lion. Saturn will outshine Leo's brightest star, Regulus, nearby to the right ...
Twin Keck telescopes probe dual dust disks
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star. If placed in our own solar system, ...
NASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-Earths
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points ...
Vega: the star with comets?
Apr 12, 2006 |
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The observation of the immediate vicinity of a star other than the Sun has just been carried out for the first time. A debris disc made up of hot (1300 degrees) dust grains, residues of comet evaporation and ...
Beta Pictoris planet finally imaged?
Nov 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The hot star Beta Pictoris is one of the best-known examples of stars surrounded by a dusty 'debris' disc. Debris discs are composed of dust resulting from collisions among larger bodies like ...
Flipping a photonic shock wave
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A team of physicists has directly observed a reverse shock wave of light in a specially tailored structure known as a left-handed metamaterial. Although it was first predicted over forty years ago, this is ...
Charge your cell phone using light, courtesy SunCore
Oct 26, 2009 |
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SunCore is a little known Irvine, Calif.-based company that's on the cusp of shipping some potentially revolutionary technology.
Next-generation microcapsules deliver 'chemicals on demand'
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Scientists in California are reporting development of a new generation of the microcapsules used in carbon-free copy paper, in which capsules burst and release ink with pressure from a pen. The new microcapsules ...
How white is a paper?
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Oct 22, 2009 |
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Whiter paper and better color reproduction are examples of important competitive advantages on an international market. But how white is a paper? And why do vacation photos turn out so dark if you don't buy ...
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