News tagged with neutral hydrogen gas

Star-birth myth 'busted' (w/ Podcast)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy's long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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Astrophysicists discover new heating source in cosmological structure formation

(Phys.org) -- So far, astrophysicists thought that super-massive black holes can only influence their immediate surroundings. A collaboration of scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

A new accelerator to study steps on the path to fusion

The just-completed NDCX-II, the second generation Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is an unusual special-purpose ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Record-breaking radio waves discovered from ultra-cool star

Penn State University astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, ...

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created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Research estimates how long Titan's chemical factory has been in business

Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cranking ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Astronomers detect coolest radio star

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous ...

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created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

First atomic hydrogen spectral line images of a nearby galaxy

South Africa’s KAT-7 telescope, a seven-dish array which is a precursor to the much larger MeerKAT telescope in the Karoo and to the Square Kilometre Array, has reached another major milestone by observing ...

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created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 7

NASA's astrobiology research sparks 'GreenTech' revolution

NASA’s astrobiologists study microbial life to understand how it transformed a rocky Earth into the thriving, diverse, life-sustaining planet we inhabit today. These studies of photosynthetic ‘green’ ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hydrogen from acidic water: Researchers develop potential low cost alternative to platinum for splitting water

A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been developed by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Hot molecule explains cold chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprisingly, hydrogen cyanide and its far more energetic isomer, hydrogen isocyanide, are present in almost equal amounts in cold interstellar gas clouds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Algae for your fuel tank: New process for producing biodiesel from microalgae oil

The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The generation of fuels from biomass as an alternative is on the rise. In ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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