News tagged with cosmic ray
A Super-Efficient Particle Accelerator
This image of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86.
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Work begins on world's deepest underground lab
(AP) -- Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings - a place uniquely suited to ...
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Mars orbiter enters safe mode after disturbance
NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 05, 2009 |
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The Phantom Torso Returns
The Phantom Torso is back, and he has quite a story to tell. He's an armless, legless, human-shaped torso, a mannequin that looks like he's wrapped in a mummy's bandages. Scientists at the European Space Agency ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 28, 2009 |
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Giant balloon flying high over Atlantic to catch cosmic rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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Scientists: No link cloud coverage and global warming
With the U.S. Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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High-energy Electrons Could Come from Pulsars -- or Dark Matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Something in our galactic neighborhood seems to be producing large numbers of high-energy electrons, according to new data gathered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The electrons could ...
May 05, 2009 |
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Fermi telescope explores high-energy 'space invaders'
(Physorg.com) -- Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years ...
May 04, 2009 |
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New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Researchers 'clear away the dust,' get better look at youngest supernova remnant
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have used a mathematical model that allows them to get a clearer picture of the galaxy's youngest supernova remnant by correcting for the distortions caused ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to Help Astronauts Survive in Infinity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space seems exotic, forbidding, and remote, but imagine trying to survive winter without a heated shelter or warm clothing. Our ancestors developed these technologies because they needed room ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2009 |
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The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Dark matter: Physicists may have found piece of the puzzle
European astronomers said on Wednesday that an anomalous energy signal detected by an orbiting satellite could be a telltale of the enigmatic substance known as dark matter.
Apr 01, 2009 |
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IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.
Feb 25, 2009 |
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