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Subaru telescope pioneers the use of adaptive optics for optical observations

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific observationswith ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Subaru's sharp eye confirms signs of unseen planets in the dust ring of HR 4796 A

(PhysOrg.com) -- The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Spiral arms hint at the presence of planets

A new image of the disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star has spiral-arm-like structures. These features may provide clues to the presence of embedded but as-yet-unseen planets.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars. This sheds new light on how stars ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Ancient footprints show human-like walking began nearly four million years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that ancient footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania, show that human-like features of the feet and gait existed almost two million years earlier ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Engineer develops new approach for uncertainty estimation, wins award

Pavlos Vlachos, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, working with two engineers from Utah State University, has won the Lewis F. Moody Award for an outstanding original paper useful ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Image: Colliding galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website has published an image taken from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. The image, posted July 2, is that of the Keenan system of colliding galaxies and was ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Cosmologists 'see' the cosmic dawn

(PhysOrg.com) -- The images, produced by scientists at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, show the "Cosmic Dawn" - the formation of the first big galaxies in the Universe.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (21) | comments 18