News tagged with atmospheric brown
Ultra-cool companion helps reveal giant planets
(Phys.org) -- An international team of astronomers led by David Pinfield of the University of Hertfordshire has found a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. Described as ultra-cool, it has ...
May 10, 2012 |
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Record-breaking photo reveals a planet-sized object as cool as the Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- The photo of a nearby star and its orbiting companion -- whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona -- will be presented by Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf that may indicate a storm grander than any seen yet on a planet. Because old ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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NOAA sought magician, now wants plans to disappear
(AP) -- A federal agency needs illusionist David Copperfield to help escape from criticism over now-canceled plans to hire a speaker to train agency leaders using "magic tools."
May 04, 2012 |
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Record-breaking radio waves discovered from ultra-cool star
Penn State University astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, ...
Apr 30, 2012 |
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US tiger shrimp sightings worry scientists
(AP) -- A big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species' territory.
Apr 27, 2012 |
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star: I?m going to know what you are
A team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge is taking the next big step in a European-wide programme which will lead to the creation of the first three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars.
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Astronomers detect coolest radio star
(Phys.org) -- Astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Supersonic snowballs in hell: How comets explode, fizzle out, or survive a flight through the Sun's atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the 1980s astronomers have seen thousands of comets falling towards the Sun, most of them too small to survive a close approach, let alone to re-emerge. Until recently no such objects ...
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Meet Kimberly Casey: Studying how debris influences glaciers
Kimberly Casey is a glaciologist who spends a fair amount of time in the office analyzing satellite data. But when she talks about her fieldwork on remote glaciers, one suspects she could do pretty well in a triathlon, too. ...
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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When dinosaurs roamed a fiery landscape
The dinosaurs of the Cretaceous may have faced an unexpected hazard: fire! In a paper published online today, researchers from Royal Holloway University of London and The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago have shown ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Flying formation - around the moon at 3,600 MPH
(PhysOrg.com) -- The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as ...
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Study reveals unprecedented impact of Deepwater Horizon on deep ocean
Scientists report they have "compelling evidence" that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has impacted deep-sea corals. Their study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utiliz ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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