News tagged with luminosity
White LEDs with super-high luminous efficacy could satisfy all general lighting needs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Nichia Corporation in Tokushima, Japan, have set an ambitious goal: to develop a white LED that can replace every interior and exterior light bulb currently used in homes ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Dark Matter May be Easier to Detect than Previously Thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is thought to be embedded in massive, lumpy amounts of dark matter that release gamma rays and other emissions. Although at first these emissions seem ...
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Galactic nuclei offer some indication of axionlike particles
(PhysOrg.com) -- “Axionlike particles are interesting because they come up regularly when scientists study string theory. By looking at their properties, you hope to learn about string theory, or some other unified theory ...
May 28, 2009 |
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Giant space blob glows from within: Primordial cloud of hydrogen found to be centrally powered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have shed light on the power source of a rare vast cloud of glowing gas in the early Universe. The observations show for the first time that this ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Large Hadron Collider pauses protons; enters new phase
(PhysOrg.com) -- Proton running for 2010 in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN came to a successful conclusion today. Since the end of March, when the first collisions occurred at a total energy of 7 TeV, the ...
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Large Hadron Collider gains pace: CERN
The world's biggest atom smasher is swiftly gaining pace as scientists seek to unravel the secrets of the universe, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday.
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Verdict: Supermassive black holes not guilty of shutting down star formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Large Hadron Collider reaches record 1380 proton bunches per beam
In just two weeks of operation in "stable beams" mode, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has aready reached 1380 proton bunches per beam, the maximum value set for this year. The number of bunches was increased ...
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Ultra-luminous x-ray sources
(PhysOrg.com) -- An ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) emits more radiation in the X-rays than do a million suns at all wavelengths. ULXs are rare: Most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have none, and ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Discovery of three smallest exoplanets: The Barnard's star connection
The discovery of the three smallest planets yet orbiting a distant star, which was announced today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, has an unusual connection to Barnard's star, one ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Belle discovers new heavy 'exotic hadrons'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two unexpected new hadrons containing bottom quarks have been discovered by the Belle Experiment using the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)'s B Factory (KEKB), a highly-luminous, ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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First low-mass star detected in globular cluster
Even the most powerful high-tech telescopes are barely able to record remote low-mass and thus faint stars. Together with researchers from Poland and Chile, an astrophysicist from the University of Zurich ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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New SuperB factory particle-accelerator project launched in Italy
(PhysOrg.com) -- The SuperB factory, a particle-accelerator to be built in Rome and approved last May by the Italian government was officially launched this past Friday with construction set to begin sometime ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Team develops new technique for dating silk
Strand for strand no fabric can compare to the luxurious feel, luminosity and sheen of pure silk. Since millennia, the Chinese have been unraveling the cocoons of the silk worm (Bombyx mori) and weaving the fibers into s ...
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Sep 13, 2011 |
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Luminosity
Luminosity is a measurement of brightness.
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