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Brumby urged to clear cloud over solar plant
Mildura :: Australia | 2 days ago
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The massive solar energy power plant proposed for Mildura would be similar to this US one, with hundreds of solar panels reflecting light up to a central tower. Photo: AFP THE State Government is being pressured to step in to ensure Australia's largest...
Tags: Mildura, power plant, solar power, solar plant, Australia, Environment, Photovoltaics, Alternative energy, Renewable energy, Energy conversion, Renewable energy commercialization, Technology Internet, Solar Systems, Grid parity
32 planets discovered outside solar system
The existence of the so-called exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- was announced at the European Southern Observatory/Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto conference in Porto, Portugal, according to a statement issued by the observatory....
Tags: Stephane Udry, solar systems, allnews, San Francisco, Spectrometers, SETI, Stￃﾩphane Udry, High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, Extrasolar planets, Doppler spectroscopy, Exoplanetology, Environment, Super-Earths, European Southern Observatory, Technology Internet
Coldest place in the solar system? Right nearby
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort...They found that at the moon's south pole, it's colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see...
Tags: moon, LRO, solar systems, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, south pole, Washington
$420m solar project on the skids
Mildura :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility Systems, the company that planned to build the world's biggest solar power station in north-west Victoria, has been placed in receivership, putting the future of the project in serious doubt. The announcement is a blow for the renewable energy industry...
Tags: solar power, Solar Systems
Kepler spacecraft discovers atmosphere of 'exoplanet'
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Kepler spacecraft to find planets in other solar systems — detecting minute fluctuations in light caused by a planet as it moves across the face of a distant star and then vanishes behind it — was working. A gas giant like HAT-P-7b is among the easiest...
Tags: Kepler, Super Earth, kepler spacecraft, Carnegie Institution of Washington, habitable zones, finding earth, NASA, kepler space, sized planets, solar systems
Austin Business Journal: SunWorks to build $12M solar farm in Central Florida
Orlando :: FL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility SunWorks Solar Systems Inc. expects to begin construction of the 2 megawatt solar farm in early 2010. The signed letter of intent to design, develop and install the solar farm is not with a utility, but the company declined at this point to say who the...
Tags: solar farm, solar systems
Fried or frozen, the solar systems that may have had life
Leicester :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility A glimpse of the bleak fate that awaits the Earth in billions of years has emerged from research into dying stars that once blazed as brightly as the Sun. Astronomers have discovered that at least one in 100 white dwarfs — the burnt-out remnants of Sun-like...
Tags: solar systems
Earth-like planets in our galactic neighborhood
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Earth-like planets with life-sustaining conditions are spinning around stars in our galactic neighbourhood, US astrophysicists say...One light year equals the distance light travels in one year at the speed of 300,000 kilometers per second, or 9.46 trillion...
Tags: Dr Alan Boss, Earths, leading astronomers, support life, solar systems
Astronomers photograph planets outside solar system
Jupiter :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The photographs are of three planets orbiting a distant star. Published in the journal Science, they look like tiny white specks around a star in the constellation, Pegasus.
Tags: Hubble Space Telescope, solar systems, planets outside, Christian Marois, Fomalhaut, star fomalhaut, Pegasus, distant star
NASA sees no quick fix for broken Hubble telescope
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against black space as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven astronauts on board approached in this March 3, 2002 file photo. Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up a backup data-handling system...
Tags: nasa, solar wind, space shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, news, NASA Scrambles, Atlantis, solar systems
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