News tagged with space simulator

How nature shapes the birth of stars

(Phys.org) -- Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

ALMA reveals workings of nearby planetary system

A new observatory still under construction has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system that can provide valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve. The ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Artificial comet contains building blocks of life

The first molecules of life form naturally in comets, reveals a French-German study led by Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert at the Institut de Chimie de Nice and by Louis Le Sergeant d'Hendecourt at the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA develops space weather app for Android smartphones

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is pleased to announce that its Space Weather App, previously only available for iPhone users, is now available for users of Android smartphone and tablet ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Wanted: Habitable moons

As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satellites that ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

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

Astronomers pin down galaxy collision rate

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of images from the Hubble Space Telescope combined with supercomputer simulations of galaxy collisions has cleared up years of confusion about the rate at which smaller galaxies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

Researchers build time machine to visually explore space and time

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists discover new way to visualize warped space and time

(PhysOrg.com) -- When black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. This warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 49 | with audio podcast

Thermoelectric materials: recycling energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- For some years now, NASA has been using what are called thermoelectric materials to power its space probes. The probes travel such great distances from our sun that solar panels are no longer ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Experiment volunteers take 2nd 'walk on Mars'

Astronauts on a simulated flight to Mars made a second walk on a mock-up of the Red Planet's surface in Russia Friday, collecting soil samples for analysis.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

ESA's Mercury mapper feels the heat

Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Detailed dark matter map yields clues to galaxy cluster growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. Dark ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

MetOp-B module passes crucial vacuum test

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Payload Module of ESA's latest meteorological satellite, MetOp-B, has been hauled out of the largest vacuum chamber in Europe: its ability to operate in the harsh conditions of space has ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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