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Category Archives: Space & Earth
25,000 new asteroids found by NASA’s sky mapping
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Worried about Earth-threatening asteroids? One of NASA’s newest space telescopes has spotted 25,000 never-before-seen asteroids in just six months.
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Tagged asteroids, brown dwarfs, colliding galaxies, inch telescope, infrared survey, jet propulsion laboratory, massachusetts institute of technology, mission team members, nasa jet propulsion, nasa jet propulsion laboratory, near earth objects, ninety five, peter eisenhardt, project scientist, richard binzel, space dynamics laboratory, space telescopes, stars and galaxies, stellar objects, utah state university
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NASA telescope made in Utah set to finish survey
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A telescope made by Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Lab for NASA is on track to complete its first sky survey.
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Tagged 30 million, asteroids, distant galaxies, dwarf stars, dynamics lab, elwell, infrared survey, jupiter, million miles, NASA, nasa telescope, salt lake city, sky map, sky survey, space dynamics, space rocks, three months, utah state university, wise program, wise project
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PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way
At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the world are quietly working together to solve the largest and most basic mysteries of our galaxy.
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Tagged Astronomers, computational power, computer scientists, computing power, computing project, dwarf galaxies, extraterrestrial life, fastest supercomputer, interdisciplinary team, life today, milky way galaxy, netbooks, open infrastructure, personal computer, processing power, rensselaer polytechnic institute, seti home project, undergraduates, volunteer base
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Scientists scramble to analyze Haiti quake
Since the ground shook Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12 and sent the densely populated city into chaos, scientists have been harnessing every possible tool to quickly assemble a detailed picture of a region in which scientific research had already been … Continue reading
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Tagged david applegate, dense population, felines, flash flood, flood hazard, gavin hayes, ground failure, massive earthquake, national earthquake information, percent, plantain garden, purdue university, science adviser, scientists, seismic standards, surface rupture, tectonic plates, u s geological survey, usgs national earthquake, usgs national earthquake information center, west southwest
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Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault
The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little effort, according … Continue reading
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Tagged berkeley graduate, berkeley seismological laboratory, cascadia subduction zone, extreme sensitivity, fault zones, faults in california, planetary science, robert nadeau, roland bürgmann, san andreas fault, seismic waves, seismogenic zone, seismologist, seismologists, shearing stress, stress changes, sumatra earthquake, sun and moon, uc berkeley professor, university of california berkeley
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Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet
Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems from a surprising source – ancient carbon contained in glacial runoff, researchers from four universities and the U.S. Forest Service report in the December 24, 2009, … Continue reading
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Tagged biological systems engineering, critical question, environmental science program, forested watershed, gulf of alaska, initial findings, jaso, journal nature, juneau area, juneau office, marine ecosystems, nutrient nitrogen, organic carbon, organic matter, soil development, spring 2008, university of alaska, university of alaska southeast, watersheds
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NASA’s AIM satellite and models are unlocking the secrets of mysterious ‘night-shining’ clouds
NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite has captured five complete polar seasons of noctilucent (NLC) or “night-shining” clouds with an unprecedented horizontal resolution of 3 miles by 3 miles. Results show that the cloud season turns on … Continue reading
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Tagged aeronomy, american geophysical union, dr james, hampton university, hemispheres, high altitude, high latitudes, horizontal resolution, james russell, late august, late november, light bulb, longitudes, NASA, nlc, northern hemisphere, polar mesospheric clouds, principal investigator, southern hemisphere, water vapor
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Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology
Cambridge, MA – Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a “super-Earth” orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers … Continue reading
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Tagged backyards, bright as the sun, dim star, distant planet, exoplanet, gaseous atmosphere, harvard smithsonian center, harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics, host star, journal nature, mass of the earth, orbits, red dwarf star, size of the sun, sized planets, super earth, thousandths, waterworld
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Avatar’s Moon Pandora Could Be Real
Cambridge, MA – In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. With NASA’s … Continue reading
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Tagged alien moon, blockbuster, carbon dioxide oxygen, forest moon, gas giant planets, gas giants, habitable moons, harvard smithsonian center, harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics, host stars, james webb, james webb space telescope, jwst, kepler mission, orbits, science fact
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