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Since last summer, there have been countless reports and suggestions that the Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system. So far though, scientists, while acknowledging the changes in the surrounding space, haven't yet decided that the probe is now in interstellar space.
Still, one recent research paper claimed ... |
21 March 2013
06:34 GMT |
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The “Solar System” GPU codename is relatively recent compared to “Sea Islands,” but the short time since the first leaks turned up was more than enough to cause widespread confusion. AMD has finally done something about the matter, albeit indirectly.
Since the 2013 edition of the Consumer El... |
7 January 2013
03:35 GMT |
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There were fears that the Radeon HD 8000M series of graphics processing units from Advanced Micro Devices were only rebrands of the HD 7000M series, but they can finally be laid to rest.
The Sunnyvale, California-based CPU, APU and GPU makers will only release the HD 8000M series, otherwise known as Solar System, a... |
18 December 2012
02:40 GMT |
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We've known about the next-generation desktop PC graphics processing units from Advanced Micro Devices for some time, but there hasn't been as much information on the mobile series.
This has now changed, thanks to a report made by Expreview. The mobile line of next-generation entry-level and mid-range GPU... |
17 December 2012
02:17 GMT |
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Voyager 1 is the man-made object farthest away from home, some 18 billion kilometers or 11 billion miles away from the Sun. It's been flying for 35 years to get there, so it's going to remain the farthest object for decades to come.
It takes 17 hours for signals from the spacecraft to reach Earth, even th... |
14 December 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Voyager 1 has recently unveiled a region of our solar system previously unknown to scientists, NASA representatives informed in a statement. The event makes Voyager 1, along with its sibling, Voyager 2, the first human-launched spacecraft to exceed the limits of our solar system passing through a border region, defi... |
4 December 2012
07:48 GMT |
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NASA's Cassini explorer orbiting Saturn spotted a giant whirl swirling on the planet's northern pole on Tuesday, November 27.
Images captured by Cassini show a raging storm reminding the disastrous Hurricane Sandy that Earth itself has recently been devastated by, Live Science reports.
“Cassini's rec... |
29 November 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Mercury surface photos taken by NASA's Messenger reveal peculiar structures similar to what we would call space cakes.
No other such formations have been noticed in any other place of the Solar System, according to scientists.
It is possible for the structures to be a hint for the existence of hidden craters ... |
21 November 2012
04:18 GMT |
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The Japanese Subaru 8-meter telescope has spotted on the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii a giant corpus that appears to be the largest planet ever discovered.
The object, ranged by scientists as a “Super Jupiter”, is 13 times larger than Jupiter and it orbits a star placed 170 light-years away from Earth.
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19 November 2012
11:17 GMT |
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Voyager 1, the fastest man-made object still in existence and the most distant one at this point, is about to become the first interstellar man-made object as well.
Exactly when it's going to happen is anyone's guess, there are signs that it is very close, but those depend on our understanding of that reg... |
31 October 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Most people would give Saturn the beauty queen title in our Solar System, but there are some that prefer the less glamorous, rawer beauty of Jupiter. These are exciting times for Jupiter fans, the planet is going through more changes than ever before and its tumultuous atmosphere is creating a spectacle for astrono... |
18 October 2012
04:43 GMT |
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The popular Solar Walk app from Vito Technology is now compatible with the big screen of the iPhone 5 and features a Curiosity model on Mars in the latest version. The app sells for $0.99/€0.79 in the Utilities category on Apple’s App Store. Vito Technology is proud to announce that its Solar Walk –... |
11 October 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Voyager is now the most distant man-made object from Earth. It's now been hurtling through space for 35 years and it hasn't even got out of the Solar System. But it may be very close, while there's nothing official and conclusive yet, tell-tale signs point that the spacecraft may have left the Solar Sy... |
9 October 2012
14:11 GMT |
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A group of scientists proposes that the main reason why planetary formation stopped in our solar system is because the Sun, as a young star, produced numerous shock waves that destroyed the necessary conditions for the process to continue.
This may explain why objects such as the giant asteroid Vesta and the dwarf ... |
27 September 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Earth definitely has a special appearance, considering the rest of the inner rocky planets in the solar system, but it's definitely not the only world to boast a different type of surface. While Mars and Venus share numerous similarities between themselves, Mercury does not, a new study shows.
The investigatio... |
25 September 2012
09:56 GMT |
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According to new calculations by NASA experts, the Voyager 1 space probe is farther away from the edge of the solar system than initially calculated. The spacecraft's main mission, more than three decades after launch, is to reach interstellar space.
In order for it to do that, it first needs to exit the solar... |
6 September 2012
08:56 GMT |
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No less than 35 years ago to date, on September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft towards the edge of the solar system, aboard a Titan IIIE delivery system featuring a Centaurus upper stage. The space probe took off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), in Florida.
Now, all these years la... |
5 September 2012
02:42 GMT |
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NASA officials announced that the Voyager 2 spacecraft has just turned 35 yesterday. The satellite was launched into space aboard a Titan IIIE delivery system from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's (CCAFS) SLC-41, in Florida, on August 20, 1977.
This is the American space agency's longest-lived missi... |
21 August 2012
03:54 GMT |
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After spending more than 7 years analyzing the outer layer of the solar system, the Voyager 1 spacecraft may finally be approaching interstellar space. New readings from its instruments have researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, very excited.
Scientists say that reaching ... |
4 August 2012
04:52 GMT |
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This seemingly complex NASA diagram illustrates the orbits of several important objects or classes of celestial bodies around the Sun. The star is obviously in the middle, in bright yellow. The three gray rings around it represent the orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars.
Naturally, the bright green circle shows ... |
30 July 2012
11:02 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers, including Doug Rumble and Liping Qin from the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIW), has recently been able to find out more data about the history of the early solar system, by studying extremely old meteorites that formed very shortly after the Sun did. The star is believed to be ... |
24 July 2012
08:48 GMT |
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According to a team of investigators, one of the reasons why our planet is suffering from a shortage of water is that Earth formed in a different area of the solar system than first thought, a region that was significantly drier than current planetary formation models hold.
Though one could easily point out that mo... |
18 July 2012
08:47 GMT |
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Voyager 1 mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, say that the spacecraft has reached the edge of the solar system. New data from the satellite indicate that the region of space it's currently traveling through is no longer dominated by the Sun.
According to rea... |
16 June 2012
04:18 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, a planet about four times the size of Earth may lurk in the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. Its existence was proposed based on observations of other, small bodies in the area, which appear to be constantly perturbed by something.
Some astronomers b... |
23 May 2012
09:48 GMT |
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A feature requested by planetariums and educators worldwide, the Solar Walk iOS app can now be locked on a specific selected celestial body in order to showcase detailed information and visual aids without distractions. Vito Technology’s top-ranked Solar Walk 3D Solar System app got a new update recently, whic... |
18 May 2012
21:41 GMT |
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Scientists have determined that most of the space impactors that struck Earth, the Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus, during a time in our solar system's history known as the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), were asteroids.
The LHB was a tumultuous period that followed shortly after the emerging solar system's m... |
18 May 2012
08:49 GMT |
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The Field Museum in Chicago is now the owner of a small meteorite that is believed to be around 4.6 billion years old, which is at least 100 million years older than our planet. The rock may have been among the first objects to form in the solar system.
The 10-gram sample is taken from a larger meteorite, and was do... |
10 May 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Studying an atmospheric phenomenon called Schumann Resonance could reveal more data about how the solar system formed, while at the same time shedding new light on the physical properties of other worlds circling the Sun. The resonance was last year observed on other planets for the first time.
Schuman Resonance con... |
4 May 2012
03:20 GMT |
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Experts from Israel, the United States and Japan say that the solar system may have established itself in its current configuration faster than originally calculated. The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old, while Earth's age is estimated to be around 4.5 billion years.
Though establishing with certainty how al... |
3 May 2012
10:28 GMT |
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One of the largest investigations of the solar neighborhood has revealed no signs of dark matter, the stuff believed to interact with baryonic matter exclusively through the force of gravity. These results are a serious problem to the current models explaining the distribution of dark matter. According to predictions... |
18 April 2012
11:54 GMT |
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After making a close pass through the inner solar system this March, comet Garradd – known among experts as C/2009 P1 – is now moving away from the Sun. The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission is using one of its instruments to keep tabs on this weird object.
The thing that immediately attracted astronomers&#... |
18 April 2012
09:24 GMT |
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An international collaboration of astronomers has recently determined that co-planar orbits, such as those occupied by planets in the solar system, are the norm throughout most planetary systems.
Planets occupying co-planar orbits spin in the same plane around their parent stars. This is interpreted as implying that... |
11 April 2012
10:38 GMT |
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An international group of investigators recently announced that the value for the half-life of samarium-146, previously thought to be 103 million years, is in fact 68 million years. The new number is very important, since 146Sm is heavily used in a number of dating methods.
The actual value for the element's h... |
4 April 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Data relayed back to Earth by the NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) orbiter suggest that the innermost planet in the solar system had a very rough history, which led it to display a very weird internal structure.
In fact, scientists say, no other planet in the solar syste... |
21 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) astronomers propose a new model to explain the formation of the solar system. At this point, most of the international scientific community accepts that the planets developed from a protoplanetary disk.
This feature, formed even before the Sun finished maturing, held tiny ga... |
2 March 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Of all the bodies in the solar system, with the exception of Earth, the Jovian moon Europe is widely considered to be the second-most likely to support basic lifeforms. Now, a new study shows that the liquid water underneath the moon's icy surface may be too acidic for life to appear or endure there.
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2 March 2012
03:44 GMT |
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An analysis of the Sun's protoplanetary disk, to be published in an upcoming issue of the esteemed Astronomical Journal, reveals that the structure was not different from similar formations occurring around other stars. The main issue – size – was proven to have been standard. Every star has a protop... |
24 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Researchers at the American space agency say that the latest investigation of the galactic wind has revealed a chemical composition that appears to be alien. In other words, these winds are not made of the same particles as the solar system.
The discovery was made using the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX... |
1 February 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce the discovery of a new series of extrasolar planets, this time organized in a number of star systems. Instances where multiple planets spin around the same star – such as is the case with the solar system – are not that common, apparently.
In fact, the new ... |
27 January 2012
03:08 GMT |
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The NASA New Horizons spacecraft – the fastest robotic explorer ever built – is celebrating its sixth anniversary flying through space. The probe is heading for Pluto, but won't get there until 2015. At this point, all systems are nominal, and everything is going according to plan.Officials from the ... |
20 January 2012
10:41 GMT |
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A popular theory among astronomers is that the inner solar system was subjected to a large number of impacts shortly after the planets were formed. Meteorites, asteroids and comets struck everything in their path, especially Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury and the Moon. The idea provides an elegant explanation for why Ea... |
5 January 2012
11:07 GMT |
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A team of geologists analyzing a puzzling rock sample discovered that it was made up of a type of crystal that had never before been encountered in nature. Scientists know all there is to know about this material, but only because they created it in the lab. Now, they hypothesize that the rock is in fact a meteorite.... |
4 January 2012
04:45 GMT |
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A group of experts say that a comet which was only recently discovered is well on its way to a mid-December collision with the Sun. The object is part of a class of comets called sungrazers, meaning they move very closely to the surface of the star during their pass through the inner solar system.
In many instances,... |
6 December 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Experts with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, and the agency's Deep Space Network (DSN) confirm that the Voyager 2 spacecraft has received and completed instructions sent to it on November 4, regarding the switch to a backup set of thrusters.
These particular motors are respon... |
15 November 2011
09:01 GMT |
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A new set of computer simulations has revealed that the solar system may have contained an additional planet when it first developed, an object that was extremely massive by the look of things. The space body must have been ejected a long time ago, the team adds. Certain interpretations of the new model even indicate... |
11 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Shortly after the Sun formed, the protoplanetary disk around it began to differentiate, showing signs of clumping. The largest such clumps grew even larger, and eventually became planets, but others still turned into large asteroids. A new study indicates asteroid 21 Lutetia as such a space rock.
The main batch of ... |
11 November 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Officials with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, say that they have recently sent a new set of commands to the Voyager 2 space probe, which is currently located on the outskirts of the solar system. The command called on the spacecraft to switch to a backup set of thrusters.
The commands ... |
7 November 2011
02:42 GMT |
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A team of astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope recently managed to identify a rain of comets striking the inner sections of a nearby solar system. According to experts, the event is reminiscent of the Late Heavy Bombardment, a similar event that affected our own solar system.
The event was discovered... |
20 October 2011
03:27 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that Uranus got such a tilted orbit after being subjected to repeated impacts from comets. In the past, astronomers believed that only a single, devastating blow was sufficient to tilt the massive gas giant.
In addition to providing a better ... |
10 October 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Astronomers have been struggling to explain numerous odd properties displayed by Mercury and Uranus for many years now, but leading theories were just discredited over the past few days. Now, astronomers begin to search for new explanations of what actually happened. This line of inquiry is very difficult to push f... |
7 October 2011
09:50 GMT |
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