Goodbye to a beauty in the night sky
For over a century and a half, Eta Carinae has been one of the most luminous – and most enigmatic – stars of the southern Milky Way.
Astronomy
Jan 30, 2019
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Tappy the robot is behind part of charges against Huawei
Chinese tech company Huawei went so far as to steal a robot's arm in its bid to get its hands on T-Mobile's trade secrets, the U.S. government alleges.
Business
Jan 29, 2019
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Active galaxies point to new physics of cosmic expansion
Investigating the history of our cosmos with a large sample of distant 'active' galaxies observed by ESA's XMM-Newton, a team of astronomers found there might be more to the early expansion of the universe than predicted ...
Astronomy
Jan 29, 2019
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TESS rounds up its first planets, snares far-flung supernovae
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, in its first three months of observations.
Astronomy
Jan 08, 2019
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Side of the moon you can't see 'is not dark, it's just far'
Despite the name of Pink Floyd's best-selling album, the side of the moon you can't see isn't always dark. But it is far.
Space Exploration
Jan 03, 2019
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When you look up, how far back in time do you see?
Our senses are stuck in the past. There's a flash of lightning, and then seconds pass until we hear the rumble of distant thunder. We hear the past.
Space Exploration
Dec 28, 2018
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NASA's Webb Telescope will provide census of fledgling stars in stellar nursery
The dazzling glow of young stars dominates images of the giant stellar nursery NGC 346, in the neighboring dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud. But this photogenic beauty is more than just a "pretty face."
Astronomy
Dec 13, 2018
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Researchers consider whether supernovae killed off large ocean animals at dawn of Pleistocene
About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth. Within a few hundred years, long after the ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2018
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New alloy to solve lead problem in drinking water
Material scientists at UNSW Sydney have come up with a lead-free brass alloy to replace traditional plumbing brass materials that have been shown to leach lead into drinking water.
Materials Science
Nov 29, 2018
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Astronomers investigate unusually bright single pulses from a millisecond pulsar
Astronomers have conducted a study of unusually bright single pulses (BSPs) from the millisecond pulsar PSR B1744−24A. The new research, which determined properties of these pulses, could contribute to understanding the ...
