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Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset... |
3 April 2008
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Ancient seas were dominated by huge monstrous reptiles, like plesiosaurs, marine reptile with flipper like members, similar to those found in modern marine turtles, but with very long necks, quite similar to the monster from the stories about the seasnake. They disappeared because of the same event that led to the ex... |
6 December 2007
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Dinosaurs may have been big, but these ones dwarf them all: a newly discovered herbivorous dinosaur from Patagonia (Southern Argentina) was 105-foot (32-meter) long! Based on the neck structure, the new dino seems to represent a novel type of Titanosaur.It was dubbed Futalognkosaurus dukei, meaning "giant chief" in ... |
18 October 2007
04:44 GMT |
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'Red giants' are evolved giant stars of 1000 times the volume of the Sun and with a surface temperature of 2,500 to 3,500 °C. In about five billion years, the sun will become a red giant and the planets that are the closest to the Sun (including Earth) will be burnt away.A recent survey of red giant stars ... |
9 August 2007
06:33 GMT |
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Giant planets made of gas are the easiest to find outside our solar system, and more than 230 of them, many times larger than our champion, Jupiter, have been found in recent years. While extrasolar planets in general are hard to spot because light bouncing off these planets is easily lost in the sea of brightness ge... |
13 July 2007
11:12 GMT |
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Not all stars end in a supernova, but those which do produce one of the most impressive and mysterious phenomena of the Universe, which, although intensively studied in the last decades, is far from being completely understood.A team of scientists at the European Southern Observatory now say they found out what fuel... |
13 July 2007
05:48 GMT |
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Astronomers have recently analyzed the chemical composition of distant stars and discovered intriguing evidence of pollution on their surface, caused by the planets orbiting them. It seems that dwarf stars display iron enrichment on their surface, most likely caused by planetary debris thrown in space and falling o... |
10 July 2007
04:47 GMT |
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Astronomers succeeded in dissecting a pulsating red giant star, S Orionis, to examine the layers of dust and gas. This star has a pulse period of 410 days, during which it changes in volume, from one equal to the orbit of Mars to one equal to the orbit of Jupiter.S Orionis is a red giant star in the constellation O... |
4 July 2007
05:00 GMT |
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An international team of astronomers has recently performed the most possibly detailed study of a giant pulsating red star and its environment, in an effort to improve our understanding of the processes of a star's death.The analysis focused on three layers of the outer envelope of the red giant: the maser shel... |
5 June 2007
05:10 GMT |
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A newly discovered exoplanet puzzles astronomers. Named XO-1b, the planet is the most massive found orbiting extremely close to its star, but it doesn't have a circular orbit, like most astronomers would have expected, but an elliptical one, which is very unusual, considering the short distance to its sun.Disco... |
31 May 2007
02:46 GMT |
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It may sound strange, but it seems some planets are ejected from the solar system where they were born, while still in an early development stage, and set to wander the interstellar space. That's kind of a scary thought, even though actual pictures of such planets may look good.Remember the sci-fi series of the... |
30 May 2007
04:18 GMT |
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A new study performed by astronomers involved in the search for extrasolar planets revealed that there are more chances of a star having Jupiter-like gas giants orbiting around them when the star itself is more massive than our Sun.It seems that the 10 observations of stars which are more massive than our own suppo... |
29 May 2007
09:30 GMT |
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Until now, scientists have used various techniques to detect more than 200 exoplanets. Most of these exoplanets are from five to 4,000 times more massive than Earth, and are too hot, too cold or too much of a giant gas ball to be considered likely habitats for life. So far, no one has managed to capture an image of ... |
29 May 2007
02:48 GMT |
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