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ESA-led Dark Energy Mission on Track for 2020 Launch

Source: SpaceNews.com

PARIS — Europe’s Euclid dark-energy science mission, which is likely to cost more than 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion), is holding to its 2020 launch date and has remained trim enough to fit into its intended rocket, the mediu ...
Full article at: SpaceNews.com  More like this  6 days ago, 12:27pm CDT

Black Hole Hunting in the Andromeda Galaxy

Source: Chandra Blog

We are delighted to welcome Robin Barnard as a guest blogger today. Robin is currently a research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; originally from the UK, he has greatly enjoyed ...
Full article at: Chandra Blog  More like this  6 days ago, 9:41am CDT

Luminous bacterial proteins detect chemicals in water

Source: PhysOrg.com

The color sensor principle developed at the HZDR is based on a red and a green fluorescent dye. If a substance to be detected is present in a water sample, then the sensor shines green; a red color, however, indicates that the substance is ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  6 days ago, 9:36am CDT

Stacking galactic signals reveals a clearer universe

Source: PhysOrg.com

Jacinta studies distant galaxies like those shown in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, using the new ‘stacking’ technique to gather information only available through radio telescope observations. Credit: NASA, STS ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  6 days ago, 8:34am CDT

Sunny super-Earth?

Source: PhysOrg.com

Image of Super-Earth “GJ3470b”. The size of the planet (front) and primary star (back) is draw with actual ratio. Figure 1: Observation data of the transit of exoplanet GJ3470b taken by two telescopes of OAO, NAOJ. Credit: NAOJ ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  6 days ago, 8:34am CDT

Eyewitness: National Maritime Museum

Source: Guardian Unlimited

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Full article at: Guardian Unlimited  More like this  6 days ago, 8:19am CDT

Tactile photographs: 'Seeing' by touching

Source: PhysOrg.com

Boaxin Li’s computer-generated, two-dimensional images enable people with visual impairments to identify individuals by their facial contours. Li is an associate professor of computer science at Arizona State University. Credit: Rosie Gochnour/A ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  6 days ago, 7:50am CDT

Astronomers discover new kind of variable star

Source: PhysOrg.com

This spectacular group of young stars is the open star cluster NGC 3766 in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Very careful observations of these stars by a group from the Geneva Observatory using the Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope at ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  6 days ago, 5:32am CDT

Stacking Galactic Signals Reveals A Clearer Universe

Source: Albequerque Express

Jacinta studies distant galaxies like those shown in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, using the new ‘stacking’ technique to gather information only available through radio telescope observations. Credit: NASA, STScI, and E ...
Full article at: Albequerque Express  More like this  6 days ago, 1:54am CDT

Black hole naps amidst stellar chaos

Source: PhysOrg.com

The Sculptor galaxy is seen in a new light, in this composite image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  Jun 11 2013, 4:20pm CDT



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