News tagged with dust
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Water vapor in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is a critical molecule for human life, and, because it is abundant in the interstellar medium, it also plays an important role in the life of molecular clouds and the stars and planets ...
Feb 04, 2011 |
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ASU Mars camera keeps a watchful eye for dust
(PhysOrg.com) -- Summertime is coming to the south of Mars, and days are growing longer and warmer. This is not good news, however — and the reason why can be given in a single word: dust.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Supergiant star with a thick dust disc
How is it possible that HD 62623, a hot super-giant star on the verge of death, is surrounded by a disc, generally only associated with infant stars? Using long-baseline stellar interferometry at ESO's VLT ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Runaway star plows through space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared ...
Jan 25, 2011 |
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The two-faced whirlpool galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Jan 14, 2011 |
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Cassini to probe Rhea for clues to Saturn rings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's icy moon Rhea might seem a strange place to look for clues to understanding the vast majestic rings encircling Saturn. But that's what NASA's Cassini spacecraft plans to do on its ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2011 |
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New algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks
As sensors that do things like detect touch and motion in cell phones get smaller, cheaper and more reliable, computer manufacturers are beginning to take seriously the decade-old idea of "smart dust" -- networks ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Desert dust puzzle solved
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pioneering measurements by University of Reading scientists are helping to unravel a mystery over strange properties of atmospheric dust.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Getting dust mites to leave homes on their own
House dust mites, nearly microscopic creatures that inhabit every crevice of our lives and make us sneeze, have long been assumed to be solitary in behavior. Now new research has shown that they are actually ...
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Earth is getting dustier, model suggests
(PhysOrg.com) -- If the house seems dustier than it used to be, it may not be a reflection on your housekeeping skills. The amount of dust in the Earth's atmosphere has doubled over the last century, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 05, 2011 |
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VISTA stares deeply into the blue lagoon
This new infrared image of the Lagoon Nebula was captured as part of a five-year study of the Milky Way using ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. This is a small piece of a much larger ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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How studded winter tires may damage public health, as well as pavement
Scientists are reporting new evidence on how studded tires — wintertime fixtures in some areas but banned in others for causing damage to pavement — may also damage the health of motorists and people living near ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Building a new planet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers over the past decade have made remarkable progress in the study of extrasolar planets; over 500 distant worlds are now confirmed. Meanwhile, as this active research community continues ...
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Broken glass yields clues to climate change
Clues to future climate may be found in the way that an ordinary drinking glass shatters. A study appearing this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that microscopic particles of dus ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 27, 2010 |
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Lunar dust transport still a mystery
There are times when Moon appears to have a tenuous atmosphere of moving dust particles that are leaping up from and falling back to the Moon’s surface. First seen during the Surveyor and Apollo eras, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2010 |
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