News tagged with helium rain
Helium rain on Jupiter explains lack of neon in atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie "Up." In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, ...
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Four white dwarf stars caught in the act of consuming 'earth-like' exoplanets
University of Warwick astrophysicists have pinpointed four white dwarf stars surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once bore striking similarities to the composition of the Earth. The scientists ...
May 03, 2012 |
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NASA's RXTE captures thermonuclear behavior of unique neutron star
(PhysOrg.com) -- A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. In October ...
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Harvard astronomers search for life's answers
If you gaze at the night sky and sometimes wonder, “What’s out there?” you’re not alone. Harvard scientists have asked the same question for centuries.
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Underground gases tell the story of ice ages -- and America's split jet stream
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deep underground aquifers in the American Southwest contain gases that tell of the region's ancient climate, and support a growing consensus that the jet stream over North America was once ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Prototype Method Detects and Measures Elusive Hazards
(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated a relatively simple, inexpensive method for detecting and measuring elusive hazards such as concealed explosives ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Helium rains inside Jovian planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look.
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium
(PhysOrg.com) -- A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2008 |
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To curious aliens, Earth would stand out as living planet
With powerful instruments scouring the heavens, astronomers have found more than 240 planets in the past two decades, none likely to support Earth-like life.
Dec 20, 2007 |
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Radiation flashes may help crack cosmic mystery
Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics.
Dec 03, 2007 |
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