News tagged with dust
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Shining starlight on the dark cocoons of star birth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have discovered a new, cosmic phenomenon, termed "coreshine," which is revealing new information about how stars and planets come to be.
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Dust models paint alien's view of the solar system (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching for planets. The models also provide ...
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Windborne dust on high peaks dampens Colorado River runoff
On spring winds, something wicked this way comes--at least for the mountains of the Colorado River Basin and their ecosystems, and for people who depend on snowmelt from these mountains as a regional source ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Water around massive young stars
Water is critical to human life, but also plays an important role in the life of stars and their planetary systems. As a gas, water helps to cool collapsing clouds of interstellar material so that they can ...
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Image: Hydrogen sulfide and dust plumes on Namibia's coast
Cloudless skies allowed a clear view of dust and hydrogen sulfide plumes along the coast of Namibia in early August 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite ...
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Aug 25, 2010 |
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Self-cleaning technology from Mars can keep terrestrial solar panels dust free
Find dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That's the problem facing ...
Aug 22, 2010 |
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Clouds + Mineral Dust = Rain
A team of atmospheric scientists, including Dr. Xiaohong Liu of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), found a critical link between the size of dust particles in clouds and their likelihood to produce ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Asteroid found in gravitational 'dead zone'
There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points. So-called Trojan asteroids ...
Aug 12, 2010 |
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NGC 4696: A cosmic question mark
This picture, taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, is not just a beautiful snapshot of NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster (galaxy cluster Abell 3526). It is also an illustration ...
Aug 12, 2010 |
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Ambitious survey spots stellar nurseries
Astronomers scanning the skies as part of ESO's VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey have now obtained a spectacular picture of the Tarantula Nebula in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This panoramic ...
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Making sense of space dust: Researchers explore solar system's origins
The chemical breakdown of minerals that may be lurking in space dust soon will be available to scientists around the world.
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Image: A Galactic Spectacle
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from ...
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Fujitsu's DDR3 DIMM Connector Design Enhances Memory Module Reliability
Fujitsu today released a DDR3 (Double Data Rate) DIMM (Dual Inline Memory Module) socket connector designed to reduce errors and intermittent faults associated with DDR3 memory modules.
Aug 03, 2010 |
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The Flight of Migrating Microbes
Every day, millions of microorganisms reach Spain from the Sahara Desert and the Sahel region - by flying.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2010 |
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