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Clustered PlayStations Solve Complex Astrophysics Problem »
Posted by: pleeplop 11 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
What do you get when you chain together sixteen Sony PlayStation 3s? Answer: A powerful, affordable, number-crunching machine able to work interstellar math in tandem ...
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Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty »
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell ...
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Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected »
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has ...
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Atmospheres Of Exoplanets Detected From Earth »
Posted by: pleeplop 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Two independent groups have simultaneously made the first-ever ground-based detection of extrasolar planets thermal emissions. Until now, virtually everything known about atmospheres of planets orbiting ...
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The quiet explosion »
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers found an object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts.
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Proposed Particle Help Explains Odd Galactic Photons »
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
In 2002, a satellite called INTEGRAL was launched by the European Space Agency with an instrument on board to detect and measure gamma rays from ...
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10 Interesting Facts About Black Holes »
Posted by: thailaw 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & Technology
Black holes have always been fascinating and this article makes them interesting and easy to understand.
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Carbon Dioxide (No S.U.V.’s) Detected on Distant Planet »
Posted by: myfairlady 11 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers testing techniques to search for extraterrestrial life have detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet 63 light-years away.
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Cosmological Conundrum: No Strings Attached »
Posted by: AmiyaSarkar 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & Technology
Defining universe is no easy job for we like to explain things on the basis of what we see or feel. Now with string theory ...
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Random thoughts of Nowun Till: Nowun Till listens to out of the woodwork astrophysicist »
Posted by: anarchyintheuk 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Suddenly the world is full of expert astrophysicists. The Cern particle accelerator, has not been created today, CERN has been around for years conducting experiments ...
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Existing Theory About The Formation Of Galaxies Challenged »
Posted by: pleeplop 1 year ago in Science & Technology
The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions ...
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