In a dramatic face-off between environmentalists and physicists, the construction of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) under the Nilgiri hills at Singara was not approved. Authorities determined that the endangered elephants which have set up their habitat in the area are simply too valuable to allow for the... |
25 November 2009
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In spite of covering a huge part of the planet, the world's oceans are still one of its biggest mysteries. Each deep-sea study and tsunami brings to the surface weird, new fish species, and isolated ecosystems, confined to only a certain location on the map, are constantly being discovered. Now, the US National ... |
6 October 2009
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The planned Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observatory, which will study the Sun, is part of NASA's proposed Small Explorers series, which also includes the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX (GEMS), which will observe and analyze black holes. The two instruments are the final selection NASA made f... |
1 September 2009
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Bigger is always better in astronomy, experts say, and the phrase especially holds true for telescopes. Making use of new technologies that allow for virtually instantaneous connections between any points on Earth, experts from more than 16 observatories on six continents have joined their resources together, and hav... |
9 June 2009
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It was, indeed, some 400 years ago that astronomer Galileo made some of his first and most important observations of the solar system, identifying other planets and their moons, and making it clear once and for all that the Earth clearly revolved around the Sun, and not the other way around. Now, four centuries later... |
31 March 2009
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The Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) instrument aboard NASA's Swift satellite has been recently used by British astronomers to hunt for a gamma-ray explosion just 251 seconds after it started manifesting itself. To pinpoint the onset of an emission in such a short time has only been made possible by the fact... |
3 March 2009
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