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A collaboration of researchers from the Okayama University and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reports that constant collisions and bombardments by particles varying in size are responsible for making planets and space rocks grow. The new research paper, published in the latest issue of the esteemed j... |
5 March 2012
02:22 GMT |
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Recent investigations conducted on the massive spiral galaxy NGC 4013 is revealing an overlooked aspect of the formation, the fact that its odd shape is a direct result of the tidal interactions it's having with a close-by companion.The two galaxies are in fact almost entirely merged, with only a massive tidal s... |
20 June 2011
09:39 GMT |
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In late 2010, astronomers observed an asteroid that apparently changed its brightness over time. In a series of investigations that were concluded recently, experts manage to establish and prove that this phenomenon was caused by collisions between two or more space rocks.
This is the only possible way of explain... |
29 April 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Asteroid impacts helped shape the way the solar system, and indeed our planet, look today, and yet these phenomena are not that well understood. Experts are now moving away from computer models, and are taking studies of such collisions into construction yards.Such a study involved suspending two ball-shaped boulders... |
24 March 2011
10:53 GMT |
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In a new theoretical study, investigators were able to develop a computer model complex enough to allow them to accurately simulate what's going on during black hole collisions. In this particular research, a supermassive black hole was pitted against a much smaller black hole. This was basically a reenactment o... |
14 December 2010
02:33 GMT |
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the largest particle accelerator in the world is currently smashing together unprecedented numbers of atoms. The state-of-the-art facility features the most powerful machine of this sort ever constructed, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), whic... |
21 October 2010
03:58 GMT |
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NASA experts believe they may have observed the first known signs of an asteroid collision taking place in space. The possible event was recorded using the Hubble Space Telescope.The observatory was used to snap a series of shots of a peculiar structure that had an X-shaped object flying at the forefront of a debris ... |
14 October 2010
03:47 GMT |
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Astronomers have recently observed a series of large galaxies as they were consuming smaller versions of themselves, in order to increase their bulk and mass. The fact that galaxies tend to collide and merge with each other is nothing new, and experts have been observing some of these cosmic events for many years.One... |
8 September 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Astronomers strongly believe that collisions among space rocks are fairly common, and also that these events may have played a significant role in the development of planets in the early stages of their respective solar systems. But, until now, no such space-based collision, or whatever resulted from one, was imaged.... |
3 February 2010
01:07 GMT |
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Italian engineers announce the development of a new type of headrest, one that is touted to be the answer to the increasingly large number of cases in which people suffer from the effects of whiplash injuries. These are produced when cars are hit by other cars from behind. The passengers and the driver in the first c... |
28 December 2009
08:41 GMT |
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One of the most enduring mysteries in astrophysics was until recently the mechanism that some stars in globular clusters used to appear younger than they actually were. As a general rule, the celestial bodies in these structures are very old, with an age estimated to be around 12 and 13 billion years. But, while most... |
28 December 2009
03:36 GMT |
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The American space agency has revealed the first time-lapse images ever showing a collision between two formations that are generally known as Aurorae Borealis. The light curtains, as they are so often called, collide at far too greater scales to be seen with the unaided human eye, but their interactions were reveale... |
18 December 2009
03:20 GMT |
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This Monday marked an historic event. After one year in repairs, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world, has finally began colliding beams of protons together, in its quest for the elusive Higgs boson. This is the elementary particle that, if found, will finally confirm the Sta... |
25 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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The Kuiper Belt is a ring of space rocks surrounding the outskirts of the solar system, around the orbit of Pluto and beyond. The formation is similar to the inner asteroid belt, and is one of the major sources for the comets that pass through our solar system. The Belt contains a large number of significant objects,... |
6 November 2009
08:51 GMT |
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The $100-billion International Space Station (ISS) is a project so valuable to the scientific community, and indeed to the whole world, that keeping it safe was among the top priorities engineers had in mind when constructing it. Armor plates adorn its sides, so that the entire structure can resist impacts from micro... |
17 September 2009
17:41 GMT |
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The Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope has recently discovered the heat signatures of a massive impact event that took place within the last thousands of years around a young star. Two large bodies, one at least the size of the Moon, and the other probably as large as Mercury, collided into each other, and the clash re... |
11 August 2009
06:59 GMT |
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In an international cooperative effort, experts managing the Chandra X-Rays Observatory, belonging to the American space agency NASA, and the optical Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, on top of the Mauna Kea volcano, in Hawaii, have taken one of the most complex and revealing pictures to date of the Stephan’s Qui... |
10 July 2009
03:55 GMT |
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While investigating the skies in search of colliding galaxies, astronomers working with the Subaru telescope, on Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, have discovered what amounts to the skid marks left behind by cars before crashing. Debris ejected by two galaxies while approaching each other and during their collision form a path ... |
10 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The gravitational forces that occur between two colliding galaxies are always of impressive magnitude, but experts at NASA and the team managing the Hubble Space Telescope have never seen anything quite as astounding as the Arp 194 galactic formation. It's made of three galaxies, two of which can be seen at the ... |
22 April 2009
02:23 GMT |
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Astronomers say that our galaxy, the Milky Way, collided with another similar formation over 2 billion years ago, an accident whose repercussions, they say, can still be identified today in the speed of the stars around our solar system. Mostly, the velocity differences are clearer if we look at the celestial bodies ... |
23 February 2009
08:43 GMT |
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