News tagged with plasma cloud
Space Image: Fastest rotating star found in neighboring galaxy
This artist's concept pictures the fastest rotating star found to date.
Dec 30, 2011 |
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The many faces of the shear Alfven wave
Scientists show that 3-D movies are no longer just for Hollywood blockbusters.
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Physicists produce black hole plasma in the lab
(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are voracious: They devour large amounts of matter from gas clouds or stars in their neighbourhood. As the incoming "food" spirals faster and faster into the abyss, it becomes ...
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Lasers could be used to make rain (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Optical physicists in Europe have shown that lasers can be used to create tiny water droplets when they are fired into the air. The idea could eventually develop into an alternative to cloud ...
May 04, 2010 |
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Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn's atmosphere. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma
Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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First laboratory experiment to accurately model stellar jets explains mysterious 'knots'
Some of the most breathtaking objects in the cosmos are the jets of matter streaming out of stars, but astrophysicists have long been at a loss to explain how these jets achieve their varied shapes. Now, laboratory research ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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