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Most Google products rarely get a revamp or even a big new feature. But they do get several small features each week, so if you prefer a constantly improving product to a lump of new features every once in a while, the Google way is the best. Google Docs follows the doctrine to the letter and three small but notable ... |
1 February 2011
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We may have thought the Sun belongs to all of us. There’s also a law saying no nation can claim ownership of it, but nothing is said about one individual doing so. Enter Angeles Duran from Galicia, Spain, also known as the new owner of the Sun.49-year-old Angeles has made the announcement that, starting from no... |
29 November 2010
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Astronomers have found little under 500 planets orbiting distant stars, but confirming the milestone alien world might prove not as easy as you would think, even if some astronomers expect its official discovery by January 2011.Last data coming from NASA revealed that astronomers confirmed 494 planets around alien su... |
12 November 2010
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Scientists have discovered boiling hot water vapor in the atmosphere of an aging star, some 500 light-years away from Earth.This discovery contradicts what was generally believed until now - that the chemistry of aging stars would forbid the existence of water vapors within the atmosphere.In the outer atmosphere of t... |
2 September 2010
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A company providing risk-management technology announced today its Enterprise application for iPhone and iPod touch, which allows users to access risk-management dashboards right from the device. Employing this method, they can monitor key metrics and manage project tasks with ease, according to CS STARS LLC. As a b... |
22 October 2009
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It appears that dangerous neighborhoods are not only a problem down here, on Earth, but instead cosmic bodies face such difficulties as well. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, seeing in infrared, has managed to capture an interesting phenomenon going on near a group of large stars. The image depicts an apocalyptic... |
18 December 2008
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Surprisingly, the skies over the southern hemisphere of the Earth have never been scoured in great detail, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has done for the northern regions. As such, the knowledge scale is heavily tilted towards the celestial objects of the north. This issue had to be addressed, especially since... |
16 December 2008
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It seems that researchers have reached the same conclusion we talked about in some of our articles published not long ago: the exoplanet discovery process, as fortuitous and science-boasting as it may be, does get old. A series of exoplanets have been discovered in the recent few months alone. Tragically, they seem t... |
15 December 2008
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We actually don’t know that many things about stars, despite the fact that there have been many attempts and numerous researches in the field. The only close star we have most access to, theoretically speaking, is the Sun. But we only know little about it as well, given the still limited technology we have, and... |
13 December 2008
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The imminence of Christmas turns scientists, as always, towards the more mystique side of the research fields. Although not the first one to do this, a study by David Reneke, news editor of Australia's Sky and Space Magazine, focused on the biblical myth of the Christmas star, the one that the three wise men pro... |
12 December 2008
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The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is located approximately 160,000 light years away from our planet, in the southern constellation named Dorado, within Magellan's cloud, and it represents one of the most massive and active star forming places found in the vicinity of our galaxy. Its immense stars g... |
12 December 2008
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The prevalent concept has it that every 100 million years or so, stars come close enough to our solar system for them to crash on the multitude of objects in the Oort cloud and place them on a course towards our planetary system. But a team of Swedish researchers argued that the rate of the star-created comets is not... |
12 December 2008
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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
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It's impossible to observe black holes directly with today's technology, especially since they're, well, black, and no light escapes so that their shape and existence can be detected. But scientists are pretty sure that almost (if not all) galaxies hold one such mysterious object at their core. This is... |
11 December 2008
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Assuming that Drake's equation would eventually proven right, and that there might be aliens out there (somewhere), and even that they are at least as smart as (we think) we are, the question still remains – What are the odds that we actually comprehend that we've stumbled upon a proof of alien intell... |
7 December 2008
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Discovering planets from outside our solar system by using the indirect radial velocity technique seems to have lost its novelty factor as of late, but it doesn't lower the merits and importance of adding to the growing number of exoplanets. The latest member of the exoplanet discoveries club, called OGLE2-TR-L9... |
5 December 2008
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The concept of brown dwarfs is somewhat cloudy to astronomers, and it describes a planet not large enough to be a star, although it shares some characteristics, it seems. Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have managed to accomplish a task they t... |
4 December 2008
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In November 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe saw (or thought he saw) a brand new star in the Cassiopeia constellation, without even using a telescope. In fact, it was a supernova, the violent death of a star, and it was shining so bright that it was visible in broad daylight and even outshone Venus at some point. ... |
4 December 2008
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Another planet has been discovered outside the boundaries of our solar system. A team of astronomers came upon the planet while performing observations with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope of McDonald Observatory in Texas. Actually, they did not observe the planet directly, but rather deduced it was there by using the rad... |
2 December 2008
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Possibly, Drake's equation should also take into account the factor of comet activity in the environment of the planets that could actually support life. New statistics suggest that our own solar system is far more spared by such cosmic catastrophes than the similar nearby ones, so we own our very existence, to ... |
1 December 2008
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The inner secrets of a pair of the most luminous stars ever discovered are finally revealed. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to take an unprecedentedly high detail picture of the stars in the Carina Nebula, lifting the veil (of gas and dust) from their faces. Much to the surprise of the team of astronomers, the b... |
26 November 2008
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So far, there were two known types of galaxies (excluding the peculiar ones that form by accident): the blue spiral ones, like our own, and red elliptical ones, shaped like a football. Their color (although the shades and contrast may differ) is very important, since it gives a hint on the age of the stars in the gal... |
25 November 2008
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It seems that once started, the exoplanet direct observation process is quickly becoming a regular one, given the discovery of such an object. A group of astronomers from France, led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, used images from the Very Large Telescope in order to pinpoint the location of a planet supposed to be approxim... |
24 November 2008
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During a period a bit over a dozen years, planet hunters have come upon over 300 exoplanets, but they have done so by calculating light, speed or gravity changes of the stars they were thought to orbit. This time, two astronomer teams have managed to spot exoplanets directly, by means of actual photographs. Astronome... |
14 November 2008
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A new press release from the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO, an inter-governmental institution involving 13 member states) shows the importance of the submillimeter astronomy field. Focusing on the formation of new stars within a studied region of space, it demonstrate... |
12 November 2008
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer instrument is set for a mission to survey all the width of the sky in ultraviolet light for the first time. During its most recent surveys, it came upon a lenticular galaxy called NGC 404 that lies beyond a red giant star named Mirach, which obscures it from normal view wit... |
5 November 2008
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Those of you who will have the time and proper conditions to gaze at the night sky tonight should know that it's going to be a literal version of an all-star Halloween on a small scale. Well, actually, not all stars, but you know what they say about three being a crowd – we could apply this here as well. M... |
31 October 2008
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Galaxies still generate a far larger amount of questions than the answers they provide to scientists, ever since people first turned their attention towards outer space. Although several theories have been issued related to the process that leads to their formation, the exact paths and factors that influence said pr... |
28 October 2008
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The relentless search for new life-hosting planets has received a new boost from a recently-found star system located close to ours in astronomical terms. It looks a lot like our own did, back in the time life appeared on Earth, but a planet that would actually be appropriately placed is yet to be found. The system i... |
28 October 2008
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A group of experts from all over the world have used powerful laser technology to recreate the extreme conditions inside planetary cores or stellar surfaces. Besides the obvious consequence that this study may have on the general comprehension of the formation and evolution of the solar system and, ultimately, the un... |
24 October 2008
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The European Organization for Astronomical Research (ESO)'s Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera placed on the 2.2-m Max-Planck telescope from the La Silla observatory site, at an altitude of 2.4 km in the Chilean desert of Atacama, was able to obtain accurate photographs of one of the most massive binary star systems... |
23 October 2008
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So far, our astronomers have managed to discover about 300 extrasolar planets, the majority of which they named “Hot Jupiters,” since they resemble the planet of our solar system pretty much in size and composition. The main difference, though, is that the alien worlds are much closer to their star than ... |
23 October 2008
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The Fermi telescope from NASA has managed to depict from the myriads of celestial bodies the only one that emits its pulses in gamma-ray beams alone. It is about 10.000 years old and it sends its light towards Earth at a rate of 3 times per second or, more precisely, once every 316.86 milliseconds. The amount of ener... |
18 October 2008
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WASP-12b has broken all previous records related to how hot, fast or close to a star a planet can be.As large as 1.8 times the size of Jupiter, the newly-discovered planet, WASP-12b, spins around its star from 1/40 the distance between the Earth and the Sun, completing a full cycle in little over one day, which makes... |
15 October 2008
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A recent study indicates that the top speed stars in our own galaxy may have been assimilated after being ejected from a dwarf one that merged with the Milky Way. This kind of stars are dubbed “hypervelocity” stars, and were mostly believed to be originating from our galaxy's core, from where th... |
15 October 2008
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Some gas tendrils between two galaxies indicate that a high-speed collision of the celestial bodies once took place. Scientists look up to this as a possible clue to the reason so many of the galaxies are unable to form new stars.One of the two is the spiral galaxy NGC 4438 situated about 50 million light years away ... |
9 October 2008
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Ever stopped what you were doing just to gaze at the night sky? The stars are fascinating, aren't they? However, you can't make out much without someone (or something) explaining to you what constellations are visible at a time, which star is which, how far it is from the Earth and so on.Starmap for iPhone ... |
7 October 2008
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A recent study indicates that there are stars in the proximity of the Milky Way's core that feed on dark matter, thus prolonging their lifespan with more than a billion years. Finding them would possibly help understanding what dark matter really is and how exactly it functions.Although responsible for 22% of th... |
3 October 2008
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Since the distance between space's bodies is so enormous, astronomers have very hard times counting and measuring all the newly-emerging stars. That's why the H-alpha characteristic signal emitted by the new stars comes as a blessing for those who detect them by telescope. The amount of such rays emitted fr... |
2 October 2008
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As researchers finally conducted their first direct measurement of a young, far galaxy's magnetic field, the result shocked them, since it was found to be ten times stronger than the Milky Way's, exactly the opposite of what they had originally predicted.The 6.5 billion light years away young galaxy DLA-3C2... |
2 October 2008
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Researchers from the University of Montreal, Canada, discovered that the giant star is also accompanied by another huge "sister," weighing 89 times more than our sun. The way stars are formed is known only in theory, based on previous observations and on the limits of science, which proposes models stating that ... |
23 September 2008
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By observing vast masses of dust accompanying a distant binary star system, US scientists concluded that it's possible that 2 planets similar to Earth violently collided 300 million light years away from us. Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the University of California in Los Angeles, who worked on the... |
22 September 2008
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Hawaii's Gemini North telescope helped capture the image of a planet orbiting a star which resembles our Sun. This is a historical event for astronomers.Ten years ago, 1RXS J160929.1-210524 was identified by Thomas Preibisch and his team as a 5 million-year old pre-main sequence star located about 470 light year... |
20 September 2008
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Recent simulations performed by astrophysicists demonstrate that in galaxies such as Milky Way, stars like our sun travel far from their place of origin. Back in 1633, Galileo Galilei came up with a theory that placed Earth in the orbit of the sun and that led to the Church and public opinion, under fire, threa... |
16 September 2008
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Results of computer simulations carried out at the Nagoya University, Japan show that, in the outcome of the tremendously energetic event that gave rise to what we now call the universe, ripples propagating through matter caused clouds of gas to condense and collapse, so as to form the first objects to shine visible ... |
1 August 2008
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Barred galaxies, having two arms trailing each other on either side of the galactic center, might have evolved in this particular shape with the passing of time, say astronomers who discovered that, compared to the first half of the universe's past, currently there are three times more galaxies that have bars. M... |
30 July 2008
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A new gas giant exoplanet roughly the size of Jupiter orbiting around a star similar to our Sun has been found by the CoRoT space telescope operated by the European Space Agency. The planet, dubbed CoRoT-Exo-4b, was discovered through a transit method, appears to complete an orbit around its star in about 9.2 days an... |
25 July 2008
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SN 2008D, a supernova explosion detected by NASA's Swift X-ray Space Telescope inside the galaxy NGC 2770 on January 9, 2009, might have actually been triggered by the gravitational collapse of a massive star into a black hole, say researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, who claim that the ev... |
25 July 2008
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The worst place where a star could grow is in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, as powerful gravitational fields exerted by the latter prevent the clouds of gas to condense into objects such as our Sun. However, astronomers have recently discovered that young stars do form near the center of our galaxy, insi... |
24 July 2008
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Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel galaxy, is a spiral galaxy located about 27 million light-years in the constellation Ursa Major, having a diameter about twice that of the Milky Way and containing vast amounts of high-density hydrogen gas, which gives it a fluffy-looking appearance. According to some estimatio... |
22 July 2008
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