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Centaurus A is a very active galaxy, whose core is currently producing a large number of stars. It is believed that, 200 to 700 million years ago, it collided with another similar structure, which it consumed. The remains of that galaxy are still being ground down in the core of the former, triggering a large number ... |
21 November 2009
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The year 2010 will see the commissioning of the world's most powerful and advanced airborne telescope, capable of watching targeted events from the most advantageous positions possible at all times. As opposed to ground-based telescopes, which are restrained to their geographical locations no matter what, the St... |
20 November 2009
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NASA officials announce that the space agency's latest telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore (WISE) instrument, has finished undergoing preparations, and is currently set for a Friday, November 20, roll-out date. The observatory has been chilled to its operating temperature, and has already been outf... |
18 November 2009
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Shortly after the planets inside our own solar system were formed, they began wobbling about, and roaming around, far from being caught in the well-defined orbits we see today. This chaotic motion is mainly responsible for the formation of the Moon, after Earth collided with a Mars-sized object that was circling the ... |
6 November 2009
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In a groundbreaking, new discovery that has the potential to change the methodology of biomolecular studies around the world, scientists have managed to create a new investigation method for looking inside protein molecules and at how they bind with each other. The research could lead to the creation of a number of n... |
27 October 2009
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem Racah Institute of Physics experts, led by Professors L.D. Shvartsman and B. Laikhtma, announce that they have managed to create a new design for TeraHertz-ray, or T-ray, lasers, a find that could bring forth a number of improvements in fields of research relying on advanced imaging tec... |
20 October 2009
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Two of the most advanced telescopes orbiting the planet or the Sun today were launched this year aboard an Ariane 5 delivery system by the European Space Agency (ESA). One of them is the Planck observatory, whose mission is to analyze the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), while the other is the flagship mission, the... |
2 October 2009
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most ambitious observatories ever planned. Designed to work in infrared wavelengths, it will be a partial successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope. The JWST, which will be able to see the most distant objects in the Universe with the utmost precision, took ano... |
16 September 2009
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The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that one of the three main instruments aboard the Herschel Space Telescope had malfunctioned, and that it was been taken offline one month ago. At this point, there is no time frame as to when the device will be brought back online, if ever. Because of the flaw, the observatory... |
15 September 2009
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently developed a new method of detecting near-infrared light, an achievement that could have significant repercussions for research fields ranging from quantum communications to astronomy and forensics. In the future, the new, highly sen... |
27 August 2009
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The study of protein structures is a very complex and delicate one, focusing on tiny formations at a very small scale. But this field of research could soon benefit from a large push forward, as researchers recently announced the development of a new laser technology, which allows the use of light pulses to grow High... |
6 August 2009
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The Spitzer Space Telescope is one of NASA's four Great Observatories, which also include Chandra, Hubble and the former Compton observatory. Launched in 2003 aboard a Delta II rocket, its goal is to survey the Universe in infrared wavelengths. However, in order to do that, it needs to be cooled close to absolut... |
6 August 2009
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At the Henry T. Nagamatsu Laboratory of Hypersonics and Aerothermodynamics at the IEAv-CTA, in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, new types of rocket-propulsion systems are currently underway. The most advanced do not rely on chemical reactions, such as burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen, but on harnessing the power of las... |
31 July 2009
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A new, supermassive black hole, estimated to have 100 million times the mass of the Sun, has been discovered at the center of the NGC 1097 galaxy, located some 50 million light-years away from our planet. The formation became visible in a new Spitzer Space Telescope image, taken in the far- and near-infrared waveleng... |
24 July 2009
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) have recently released an image of the Messier 51 galaxy, also known as the Messier Galaxy, which was partially collected by the newly launched Herschel Space Telescope, and partially by the famous Hubble Space Telescope. The composite photograph shows the well-known galax... |
1 July 2009
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In order to be able to detect the faintest light signatures in the distant Universe, the Spitzer Space Telescope had to be cooled since launch at about -456 degrees Fahrenheit (-271 Celsius), in order for its three main instruments to function properly. Despite only being set to operate for about three years, the tel... |
24 June 2009
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In the first tests of the largest infrared telescope ever constructed, Herschel mission controllers opened the observatory's eyes on June 14th, and set it to take snapshots of the Messier 51 galaxy. More famously known as the whirlpool galaxy, Messier 51 was discovered by Charles Messier back in 1773, and its na... |
22 June 2009
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Hamrick Software has updated VueScan, its flagship product that can help Mac users produce quality scans, allowing tweaks to color balance and more. VueScan supports most high-quality flatbed and film scanners and now adds support for additional scanners, as well as support for IR cleaning. VueScan has recently celeb... |
11 June 2009
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According to previous estimates of how long life will last on Earth, all living creatures should be gone 1 billion years from now. But a new research comes to show that the “deadline” may be 2.3 billion years away, which means that the planet might be inhabitable for almost half of the Sun's life cyc... |
2 June 2009
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Located about 1,600 light-years away from the Earth, in the Constellation Monoceros, the exoplanet CoRoT-1b, first discovered about two and a half years ago, is the first one whose day and night cycles were observed in optical wavelengths, as it orbited its star. The body was first discovered by the French CoRoT (Con... |
28 May 2009
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The Great Wall of China is actually a large collection of defensive constructions, which began to be built more than 2,000 years ago. The portions that can now be visited, located around the larger cities, are the most popular and well-preserved ones, but a two-year study by the State Administration of Cultural Heri... |
22 April 2009
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An international scientific team, comprised of experts from Germany, the United States, and Spain, have managed to establish new methods of controlling light on the nanoscale, through the use of nano-antennas and also of some concepts from radio-frequency technology. The innovation could help create a new generation ... |
21 April 2009
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PerceptDev has achieved a feat that, it claims, is cheaper and more reliable than any similar attempt to date. While the iPhone ships with a virtual keyboard built inside every application that requires typing, some people (for one reason or another) love the idea of working with a physical keyboard on the Apple hand... |
24 March 2009
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A patent filing made by Apple in July this year, for a more reliable Apple Remote control system, has been recently made available to the public. Apple talks of a remote, similar to the Nintendo Wii's controller (the Wii Remote). However, Apple's device would be able to better distinguish predetermined ligh... |
11 November 2008
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The recent discoveries on Mars (see the related articles below for more on that) have fueled man's colonization dreams. In this regard, they would need to be helped by something that doesn't suffer from the harsh environment and low atmosphere, at least until these issues are dealt with. In order to address... |
22 October 2008
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Currently, our Milky Way galaxy is thought to produce about 10 new stars every year, close to nothing compared to a newly found distant galaxy that appears to generate approximately 4,000 new stars each year. A small calculation reveals that such a galaxy would require as little as 50 million years to evolve into one... |
11 July 2008
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Take a patch of the sky with an area four times that of the apparent size of the Moon, study it over a period of three years and you may obtain the most sensitive infrared map of the distant universe. By doing so, researchers from the University of Nottingham obtained the image of more than 100,000 galaxies, as they ... |
9 April 2008
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TV-B-Gone (television be gone) is a simple universal remote control that, as its name states, has the capability of turning off all types of televisions controlled through infrared remotes. The device was created by Mitch Altman and was presumably invented for turning off televisions located in public areas that dist... |
7 April 2008
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Remote controls were first developed during World War I by the German military to crash naval vessels into Allied ships, while World War II saw the arrival of the first bomb detonated with the help of a remote control. Both types were operating in the radio frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, however theoret... |
17 March 2008
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In what was only a matter of time before we saw something like this hitting the market, folks at Osaka University's Graduate School of Engineering Science have come up with this remote system to access your iPod's (play, stop, skip, rewind fast forward) menu in a blink of an eye... literally.PC World says t... |
10 March 2008
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Behemoths up to a billion times the mass of our Sun lie in our universe, swallowing up matter to hide it forever from the eyes of any outside observers. Not even light can escape their massive gravitational pull, that's why they are called black holes; they do not emit any form of electromagnetic radiation, thus... |
4 March 2008
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The study conducted by Thomas Lummerstorfer represents a review of one of his earlier papers into the study of solid-solid interfaces with the help of infrared spectroscopy techniques, which could not be tested experimentally until now. He previously predicted that with the help of a sandwich-like optical configurati... |
13 February 2008
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Similarly to most gas clouds in the universe, Rho Oph is mainly composed of molecular hydrogen gas, in which new stars may form. Rho Ophiuchi is one of the closest star-forming nebula to our solar system, lying only 407 light years away, in a region of space located between the Scorpius and Ophiuchus constellations. ... |
12 February 2008
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If it's light manipulation, then we're talking about metamaterials. Researchers report to have improved the design of T-ray sensors with the help of a metamaterial that guides T-ray light across the surface of the detector. T-ray sensors are thought to become the next generation of explosive and poison dete... |
11 February 2008
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Quantum Cascade Laser systems represent semiconductor lasers that have the ability to emit light in the mid and far-infrared wavelengths of the electromagnetic systems. They are usually used to make spectroscopic analysis, such as measuring gases concentration in the Earth's atmosphere, as sensors for cruise con... |
8 February 2008
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When completed, it will be the biggest space telescope ever build, with a mirror twice as big as that of the famous Hubble Optical Space Telescope, and it will help astronomers study cold icy dust, resident in some of the most remote corners of the universe. This automatically implies that the Herschel Space Observat... |
6 February 2008
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New devices operating in the terahertz wavelength of the light spectrum could change the way security and medical detections are usually being made. Electromagnetic wave sent as terahertz frequencies, also known as T-ray operate in the 300 gigahertz to 3 terahertz domain close to the edge of the microwave spectrum, o... |
23 November 2007
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Global warming has been in the scientists' attention for some time now. It was first discovered at the end of the 19th century, from studies that showed that the average temperature of the soil was rising. The greenhouse effect that is thought to trigger global warming takes its name from the Greenhouse, as a to... |
3 November 2007
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Humans are not made for traveling during nighttime: around 42% of fatal car crashes happen at night, taking into consideration that at this time there is 60% less traffic. There's little visual acuity and field of vision at night provided by illumination from the headlights. Now a team at the Department of Compu... |
28 September 2007
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The M82 galaxy is the brightest galaxy in the sky in infrared, as it is much brighter at infrared wavelengths than in the visible part of the spectrum. Part of the M81 group, it is located 12 million light years away.Also known as a "peculiar" galaxy, M82 has long presented a number of unsolved problems to astronome... |
30 July 2007
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A perfect crime is a utopia. And it's getting even more than this, as a new fingerprinting technique can reveal surprising details about the criminal. Standard methods of fingerprinting at a crime scene include the use of powders, liquids or vapors, but they can alter the prints and destroy precious clues, like... |
21 July 2007
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Charon is the largest satellite of the now dwarf planet Pluto, also referred to as Pluto I, over half the diameter of Pluto, dominated by what was thought to be stable water ice and it has no atmosphere. It is largely an icy body and contains less rock by proportion than its partner Pluto, supporting the idea it was... |
18 July 2007
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Gyration, the industry leader in the motion-sensing controllers, announced its recent development of its new ultra R4000 motion-sensing remote with music display. The Ultra 4000 remote offers the people the chance to have complete control of all their media center music library without having to turn on the TV or the... |
16 July 2007
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There is more to the Universe than human eyes can perceive and visible light is actually not so important in visualizing the intricate patterns of galaxies, interstellar dust and mysterious phenomena, such as black holes, pulsars and cosmic explosions.AKARI is a joint Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) projec... |
16 July 2007
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It's got to be the Ben Johnson of the robot world, as it rules the race of the two-legged robots. RunBot, developed at Germany's University of Göttingen can run on two legs, can climb hills and mountains, which it can see using its infrared eyes.Possessing a gait-altering neural network, the robot does fal... |
13 July 2007
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Surprisingly, the oldest known saunas were pits dug in a slope in the ground and primarily used as dwellings in the winter. That sauna featured a fireplace where stones were heated to a high temperature, while water was thrown over the hot stones to produce steam and to give a sensation of increased heat. This would ... |
3 July 2007
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As businesses and government facilities using wireless networks struggle to keep their confidential data in and hackers out, it seems that WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and even WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) may soon be obsolete and replaced by the newest high-tech protection: window tint.The Pentagon experimented w... |
27 June 2007
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This toy-salvation helicopter is one cute piece of technology. It has a beautifully-crafted design, which was performed using only light materials.This radio remote controlled Helicopter features easy to manage controls, while the integrated motors are quite pliable for its size. It boasts a trio of channels, which l... |
22 June 2007
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Do you think it's possible to shine a red laser through a glass window and to get a blue one on the other side? Normally not, but at high intensities light energy tends to combine and redistribute, meaning that red light can really turn into blue light.To do this, two scientists at the California Institute of T... |
7 June 2007
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Quantum dot photodetectors have just taken a very important step towards large scale, low-cost applications. The fields where this new imaging technique would be invaluable are medical and biological imaging, environmental and chemical monitoring, night vision and infrared imaging from space.A team of researchers at... |
21 May 2007
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