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Largest Ring Around Saturn Discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 12




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After 50 year search, research team finds plutonium signature

(Phys.org) -- After fifty years of trying by various researchers, a group made up of teams from Los Alamos National Libratory in the US and the Atomic Energy Agency in Japan, have succeeded in spotting the ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Pollution teams with thunderclouds to warm atmosphere

Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that o ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Baby galaxies grew up quickly

Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early history of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 67 | with audio podcast

Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight

(Phys.org) -- Chaotic networks of dust and gas signpost the next generations of massive stars in this stunning new image of the Cygnus-X star-nursery captured by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.  ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

First instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope completed

After more than ten years of work by more than 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of Jupiter's moons, has been declared ready for delivery ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Paydirt at 8-year-old Mars Rover's 'new landing site'

A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics conference in late 2011.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

French company uses wind turbine to create fresh water

(Phys.org) -- French company Eole Water has announced that they have developed and are now in the process of selling wind turbines that have been modified to produce fresh drinking water. Company reps say ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 28 | with audio podcast report

Cassini finds Saturn moon Phoebe has planet-like qualities

(Phys.org) -- Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Wise catches aging star erupting with dust

(Phys.org) -- Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Review: 4 camera app alternatives to Instagram

(AP) -- I'm one of the millions of smartphone owners addicted to Instagram, the free camera app that makes tweaking and sharing photos miraculously easy. While it's wildly popular and the target of Facebook's ...

Technology / Software

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