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Eurocom has recently expanded its notebook lineup with another monstrous mobile workstation known as the Neptune which is destined to meet the needs of both gamers and professional requiring a powerful 3D-enabled laptop. At the heart of Eurocom's latest creation stand Intel's Sandy Bridge processors, the no... |
21 November 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Astronomers were recently able to determine that a day on the gas giant Neptune lasts for 15 hours, 57 minutes and 59 seconds. Scientists have been trying to figure this out for many years, but thus far their studies have been stifled by lack of accurate data.
In order to arrive at the new conclusions, a group of... |
8 October 2011
06:13 GMT |
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The gas giant Neptune has finally completed its first orbit around the Sun since it was first discovered. The planet was observed on the night of September 23-24, 1846, and its first document orbit concluded yesterday, July 11, 2011, after 165 years. Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun, and its com... |
12 July 2011
04:50 GMT |
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A new astronomical investigation offers evidence that disproves the Nice model, a theory that blames Neptune for the large population of binary objects in the Kuiper Belt. The model, which is currently widely accepted by the international scientific community, holds that the gas giant was responsible for knocking a l... |
6 October 2010
10:48 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that there is indeed a class of planets that can survive the excessively harsh conditions it is subjected to while spinning around binary systems.Researchers say that retrograde planets, which are basically planets orbiting backwards in regards to how their parent ... |
6 October 2010
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A computer model has revealed that extraterrestrial civilizations may figure out we are in this solar system by looking at the dust ring that surrounds the Sun, planets, moons, and everything in between.For alien observers living outside of the solar system, discovering holes in this dust belt would be a clear indica... |
24 September 2010
09:20 GMT |
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A team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announce the discovery of a large cache of massive trans-Neptunian objects, space rocks that exist beyond the orbit of the gas giant. The 14 space rocks were found as scientists were peering through archival observations that the famous telescope made over the tw... |
14 September 2010
01:56 GMT |
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After the Perseids in August, September comes with the autumn constellations, brought by the mythical winged horse Pegasus.The September constellations have few or no bright stars at all, not even Pegasus, which is one of the largest constellations in area.The star pattern that is most obvious to the naked eye is the... |
1 September 2010
09:00 GMT |
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Astronomers say that August 20 will mark a very special day in their calendars, as the moment when the gas giant Neptune will complete its first orbit around the Sun, since being discovered back in 1846.In two days, the planet will be in opposition, which means that it will be on the same straight line as the Earth a... |
18 August 2010
09:50 GMT |
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Even though Neptune is one of the largest planets in our solar system, astronomers still know very little about how it works. Most of the phenomena going on at its surface are still a mystery to science, but recently astronomers managed to gain a few more insights into the celestial body's history. Using an Euro... |
24 July 2010
04:44 GMT |
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The conditions experienced by water molecules on Neptune might be simulated in 2015. A group of 15 international physicists created a project of pressure simulation on water molecules, that will be tested when the new Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) accelerator in Germany will be finalized. Scientist... |
22 July 2010
03:24 GMT |
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Astronomers say that a large comet may have stricken the gas giant Neptune not two centuries ago. They base their statement on the fact that the atmosphere surrounding the planet is very rich in carbon monoxide, which had no way of appearing on the space object through natural processes. The findings were presented i... |
28 May 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Using their Chile-based Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) managed to conduct a unique survey of Neptune's moon Triton. The investigation, which was made in infrared wavelengths, revealed an astounding fact, namely that the southern hemisphere of the small space ... |
7 April 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Scientists peering over old and recent images of the gas giant Neptune, the eight planet from the Sun, were recently amazed to discover an eerily familiar pattern in the way clouds at the planet's south pole were behaving. Their analysis revealed that the region was at the moment battered by what ... |
19 March 2010
11:57 GMT |
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Some 234 years before the planet was officially found, Galileo may have made the earliest observations of Neptune, a new study of the famous astronomer's diary and notebooks reveals. Professor David Jamieson, the head of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, made the astonishing claim, after studying in... |
10 July 2009
02:18 GMT |
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A new world was recently discovered by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, orbiting a red dwarf just 120 light-years away from Earth. The planet, which is a bit larger than Neptune, has been dubbed HAT-P-11b, and preliminary calculations show that the new body has a mass roughly equivalent... |
21 January 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Two years ago, Alice Quillen, an astronomer at the University of Rochester, estimated that a planet of a specific size is revolving in a precise orbit in the dust disk surrounding the Formalhaut star. A month ago, the Hubble Space Telescope took a very accurate image of the region, indicating that such a planet exist... |
12 December 2008
08:07 GMT |
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The smallest of the Kuiper Belt Objects remain elusive for all the searches attempted over the past few years. Finding some would help explain a number of theories related to the solar system's formation and evolution. Since the icy ring of frozen bodies known as the Kuiper Belt was discovered beyond Neptun... |
4 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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More than two years ago, before Pluto was demoted from its status of planet to that of minor planet, it was still considered the most remote planet from the Sun. Or, was it? If you look closer to the orbits of Pluto and Neptune, you might observe something unexpected. Pluto occasionally comes closer to the Sun than N... |
22 January 2008
08:21 GMT |
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Just before 2006, Pluto was still considered the most remote planet in the solar system. However, due to the discovery of a series of objects that had similar sizes and characteristics to that of Pluto, the object has been demoted from its status of planet to that of Kuiper belt object, or minor planet. Currently, th... |
15 January 2008
09:54 GMT |
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The configuration of the solar system as observed today poses some serious questions about how the planets might have evolved from the protoplanetary disk spinning around the Sun, as current models cannot yet explain how a planet the size of Jupiter could have formed in only a few million years, while predictions reg... |
12 December 2007
04:40 GMT |
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This week, you will be able to see two of the gas giants in the night sky. With the moon out of the way, and a pair of binoculars, Uranus and Neptune will be well in your reach. Normally, most people can see the five brightest planets, but there is still a sixth planet that can't be observed without any optical ... |
3 November 2007
06:07 GMT |
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Diamonds are known to form on Earth under very specific conditions, like exposure of carbon-bearing materials to high pressure, ranging approximately between 45 and 60 times normal atmospheric pressure, conditions that can be found in the lithospheric mantle below relatively stable continental plates and at the site ... |
13 July 2007
10:50 GMT |
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