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Patchwork sun's rich tapestry of light
Sydney :: Canada | 4 months ago
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Chances are it was a flat featureless disk, or worse, just a burned out black spot in the corner of the frame...Each piece of equipment will only capture a certain wavelength, necessary for further study and observation. In this composite image they
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Magnetic Braids of the Sun
Huntsville :: AL :: USA | 4 months ago
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High-Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, also may lead to better space weather forecasts, the scientists added. "With potential annual economic impacts of tens to hundreds of billions of dollars domestically during periods of high solar activity,
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Our neighbor star almost as old as universe
Long Beach :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Experts have discovered a unique meteorite from Mars which contains ten times the amount of water and far more oxygen than any other Martian samples found on earth...Formed shortly after the Big Bang, it's now at least astounding 13.2 billion years
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The Stars Go For the Gold
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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The Stars Go For Gold The middle-aged adage that we are made from stardust, made popular by Carl Sagan back in the 1970s, pops up in my thoughts now and then. I'm looking at my wedding ring right now, feeling the weight of this bit of gold and using
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Some of the best best photos of 2012
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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A lenticular cloud formed as high winds blew over the rugged Crazy Mountains in Montana. (James Woodcock, Billings Gazette via Associated Press.) A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The
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The top astronomy pictures of 2012
Fairbanks :: AK :: USA | 5 months ago
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Of course, astronomy is literally telling us our place in the Universe, how everything works, how it fits together . . . and it's done on the grandest of scales...Nebulae, galaxies, stars, planets, aurorae; from the near sky to the most distant
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Call to the End-of-the-World-as-We-Know-It Order
Madrid :: Spain | 5 months ago
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Bureaucratic committees cannot match the capabilities of enlightened, determined individuals...Dear Editor: The Human Condition over its history has been measured by the threat of catastrophes and or the redemption therefrom. Of late, the Mayan
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A satellite that can warn us about solar storms
Greenbelt :: MD :: USA | 5 months ago
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57 Washington: The Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite, floating 1.5 million km above the Earth, can warn us up to an hour before a large-magnitude solar storm or coronal mass ejection (CME) strikes our technology-dependent world, says a
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Exploding star not behind solar systemi¿½s birth
Mumbai :: India | 5 months ago
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A new study has challenged the notion that the force of an exploding star forced the formation of the solar system. In this study, researcher Haolan Tang and Nicolas Dauphas from the University of Chicago found the radioactive isotope iron 60 -- the
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Cosmic radio waves mimic chirping of 'alien birds'
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 6 months ago
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Fla. Twin spacecraft have captured the clearest sounds yet from Earth's radiation belts and they mimic the chirping of birds . Van Allen Probes have been exploring the hostile radiation belts surrounding Earth for just three months. But already,
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