(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy revising their ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2010
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Humans are naturally afraid of the dark. We sometimes imagine monsters under the bed and walk faster down unlit streets at night. To conquer our fears, we may leave a night light on to scare away the monsters and a light ...
Astronomy
Feb 10, 2023
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Professor Ray Norris of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and colleagues from Macquarie University have researched the use of stars and constellations by certain groups. According to ...
(Phys.org)—Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help the investigation of the mysterious "dark matter" and "dark energy" that make up ...
Astronomy
Oct 3, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides ...
Astronomy
Feb 7, 2013
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Astronomers at ANU have created the most comprehensive map of the southern sky that can be viewed online by anyone around the world.
Astronomy
Dec 13, 2017
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The University of Colorado Boulder has become a full institutional member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV, an ambitious effort by some of the world's top astronomers to map the celestial sky in three dimensions to learn ...
Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2013
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The radio sky at frequencies below ~30 MHz, particularly below ~10 MHz, is still largely unknown. Due to the absorption and distortion by the ionosphere, it is quite difficult to receive radio signal of such ultra-long wavelength ...
Astronomy
Jul 30, 2021
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The Very Large Array can't image a big section of sky all at once. Instead, it must scan the sky over time.
Astronomy
Apr 16, 2021
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(Phys.org) -- This summer, NASA is deploying NuSTAR, an array of focusing telescopes that will map the sky in the high-energy X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum. These maps will allow scientists to study black holes, ...
Space Exploration
Aug 6, 2012
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