There's still much to learn by visiting the giant planet Jupiter
After a five-year journey, NASA's Juno spacecraft this week reached Jupiter and was successfully inserted into its orbit.
After a five-year journey, NASA's Juno spacecraft this week reached Jupiter and was successfully inserted into its orbit.
Space Exploration
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Blazars are galaxies whose central, supermassive black holes are accreting material from surrounding regions. Although black hole accretion happens in many galaxies and situations, in the case of a blazar the infalling material ...
Astronomy
Jun 6, 2016
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In 2012, a tiny flash of light was detected deep beneath the Antarctic ice. A burst of neutrinos was responsible, and the flash of light was their calling card.
General Physics
Apr 22, 2016
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Just a bit bigger than a box of cereal, one of the first CubeSats to travel in interplanetary space will be NASA's miniature space science station, dedicated to studying the dynamic particles and magnetic fields that stream ...
Space Exploration
Feb 2, 2016
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NASA announced that a miniature solar particle research spacecraft to be built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will launch aboard NASA's Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) rocket in 2018.
Space Exploration
Feb 2, 2016
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When cold milk is poured into a hot cup of tea, a temperature equilibrium is reached very quickly. The milk droplets and the tea particles interact, and after a few moments they all have the same average energy. This process ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 1, 2016
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Super-massive black holes at the centers of galaxies can spawn tremendous bipolar jets when matter in the vicinity forms a hot, accreting disk around the black hole. The rapidly moving charged particles in the jets radiate ...
Astronomy
Dec 28, 2015
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LSU Physicist James Matthews and an international team of scientists are reconstructing the path of the universe's most energetic cosmic rays, bringing new insights into the origin and nature of this intergalactic phenomenon. ...
Astronomy
Dec 15, 2015
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Originally planned for a two-year mission, the ESA–NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, is today celebrating two decades of scientific discovery.
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2015
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Twenty years ago, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a cooperative effort between NASA and the European Space Agency, launched into space and revolutionized our study of the sun and a scientific discipline called heliophysics ...
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2015
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