NASA instrument shows never-before-seen Sun’s innermost corona
January 5th, 2011 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): An instrument aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), developed by Smithsonian scientists, has provided never before seen views of the innermost corona 24 hours a day, 7 days ... Read more...
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Scientists create ‘mini Big Bang’ to unravel atom’s mysteries
November 8th, 2010 - 4:30 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 8 (IANS) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has succeeded in creating a miniature version of the Big Bang by smashing stripped-down lead atoms together.
The reaction created temperatures ... Read more...
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Scientist wins solar probe instrument award, place on solar mission
October 1st, 2010 - 2:41 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 1 (ANI): An astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and his science team have secured a proposal award of 8.2 million dollars to help build parts ... Read more...
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NASA eyes unprecedented mission to unlock Sun’s biggest mysteries
September 3rd, 2010 - 2:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever before.The project, named Solar Probe Plus, is scheduled to launch no later than 2018.The small ... Read more...
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R136a1: Scientists find the heaviest star of the Universe
July 26th, 2010 - 7:43 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, July 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have discovered a massive star that shines with an intensity, which is 10 million times that of the Sun. The ... Read more...
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Physicists make it hotter than ever before
February 18th, 2010 - 3:37 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 18 (IANS) A team of physicists has created the hottest temperature ever recorded in the universe -- 3.98 trillion degrees Celsius.
Two University of Colorado at Boulder (UC-B) physicists are ... Read more...
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Scientists create hottest temperature in universe
February 18th, 2010 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): A team of scientists has created the hottest temperature matter ever measured in the universe - 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.The team used Brookhaven's giant atom smasher, the ... Read more...
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Astronomers spot ‘fossil’ fireballs from supernovae
January 9th, 2010 - 2:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 9 (ANI): Studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-US Suzaku observatory have revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed supernovae explosions."This is the first evidence of ... Read more...
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Dying hot star photographed
December 3rd, 2009 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 3 (IANS) Astronomers in Britain have taken the first pictures of one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy - a mysterious dying body that fascinates scientists.
At 200,000 ... Read more...
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NASA telescope makes first detection of gamma-rays from microquasar
November 27th, 2009 - 3:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 27 (ANI): NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic microquasar.The microquasar is a binary system known as Cygnus X-3.The system ... Read more...
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