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The Day the Earth Smiled 23 Jul 2013 | 04:16 pm
July 23, 2013 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frameCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute In this rare image taken on Ju...
Revolutionary Instrument Delivers a Sharper Universe to Astronomers 3 Jul 2013 | 06:24 am
July 2, 2013 Images from the Gemini Multi-conjugate adaptive optics System (GeMS) System Verification science observations. (Credit: Image design by Eve Furchgott, Blue Heron Multimedia.Credit: Gemin...
NASA’s Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our ‘Solar Bubble’ 1 Jul 2013 | 06:47 pm
Jul 1, 2013 This artist’s concept shows NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun...
Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed, Scientists Suggest; Ephemeral Vacuum Particles Induce Speed-Of-Light Fluctuations 26 Mar 2013 | 12:22 pm
March 26, 2013 Ephemeral vacuum particles induce speed-of-light fluctuations. Two forthcoming European Physical Journal D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. In one paper...
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind 25 Feb 2013 | 12:30 am
February 24, 2013 A constant stream of particles and electromagnetic waves streams from the sun toward Earth, which is surrounded by a protective bubble called the magnetosphere. A scientist at NASA ...
Journey to the Limits of Space-Time: Black Hole Simulations On Supercomputers Present New View of Jets and Accretion Disks 24 Feb 2013 | 08:35 am
February 23, 2013 3-D snapshot for an evolved Black Hole (BH) model. The disk and jet near the BH are aligned with the BH spin axis and point mostly in and out of the figure plane, whereas at larger ...
Sun’s Next-Door Twin: Cool Layer in the Atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A 23 Feb 2013 | 08:08 am
February 22, 2013 One of the great curiosities in solar science is that our Sun’s outer atmosphere – the corona – is heated to millions of degrees when its visible surface is ‘only’ about 6000 degree...
A Jumble of Exotic Stars: New VISTA Snap of Star Cluster 47 Tucanae 11 Jan 2013 | 01:36 pm
January 11, 2013 This bright cluster of stars is 47 Tucanae (NGC 104), shown here in an image taken by ESO’s VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) from the Paranal Observatory i...
NASA’s NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy Web 8 Jan 2013 | 09:29 pm
January 8, 2013 This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. High-energy X-ray data from NuSTAR have be...
Wide Binary Stars Wreak Havoc in Planetary Systems, Astrophysicists Find 7 Jan 2013 | 08:27 pm
January 7, 2013 Two simulations of planetary system disruption by galactic disturbances to wide binary stars. On the left is a zoomed-out view showing the orbit of a hypothetical 0.1 solar mass binar...
