News tagged with celestial sphere
NASA's Dawn collects a bounty of beauty from Vesta
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Sep 16, 2011 |
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Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way
Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Beacons in space
Pulsars are among the most exotic objects in the universe. They resemble gigantic atomic nuclei and rotate around their own axis at an incredible speed. These cosmic beacons mark the end of massive suns. Theoretically ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Fermi's latest gamma-ray census highlights cosmic mysteries
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of ...
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Vessel to contain cosmic force takes shape
At the heart of most celestial objects is a dynamo. The Earth's dynamo, spun to life in the molten metal core of our planet, generates a magnetic field that helps us find north and, perhaps more critically, ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Happy anniversary, Neptune
Today, July 11, 2011 marks the first full orbit of the planet Neptune since its discovery on the night of September 23-24, 1846. But there’s a lot more to learn about this anniversary than just the date. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Celebrating 400 years of sunspot observations
(PhysOrg.com) -- In March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Sun, Moon and Earth line up for Proba-2
ESA’s Proba-2 microsatellite experienced a conjunction of the spheres on Tuesday, as the Sun, Moon and Earth all lined up in front of it.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Picking Planets from Potatoes
New research indicates that there may be many more dwarf planets similar to Pluto in our solar system than previously thought. Studying these distant objects can help astrobiologists understand the basic properties ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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e-Infrastructures give real boost to virtual observatories
(PhysOrg.com) -- New tools and systems developed by European researchers are helping astronomers access data centres from anywhere in the world. From charting new stars to finding new meaning in old stellar objects, the result ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project — a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile — has just been released ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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The cosmos is green: Researchers catch nature in the act of 'recycling' a star (w/Animations)
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have observed a singular cosmic act of rebirth: the transformation of an ordinary, slow-rotating pulsar into a superfast millisecond pulsar with an almost infinitely ...
May 21, 2009 |
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