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Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole
A fleet of spacecraft including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered unprecedented details in the surroundings of a supermassive black hole. Observations reveal huge bullets of gas being driven away from the gravitational monster and a corona of very hot gas hovering above the disk of matter that is falling into the black hole. A […]
WISE Revises Numbers of Asteroids Near Earth
September 29, 2011
This chart shows how data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has led to revisions in the estimated population of near-Earth asteroids. The infrared-sensing telescope performed the most accurate survey to date of a slice of this population as part of project called NEOWISE. This allowed the science team to make new estimates […]
Tiangong 1 (天宫一号) launch animation
September 29, 2011
Tiangong 1 (English: Heavenly Palace) is a Chinese space laboratory, intended as a test-bed to develop the rendezvous and docking capabilities needed to support a larger, inhabited space station complex. The launch of Tiangong 1, aboard a Long March 2F rocket, is planned for late September 2011. It is part of the Tiangong space station […]
Making CERN’s best even better
September 29, 2011
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is finally up and running, but the lab is already planning an audacious upgrade using technology not yet invented, as Matthew Chalmers reports It is hard to imagine upgrading an instrument as big and complex as the SwFr6.5bn (€10bn) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva. The […]
China space station module awaits launch
September 29, 2011
Countdown begins to lift-off of Tiangong-1, the first step towards a permanent Chinese base in orbit China has started the countdown to launch a space station module, the Tiangong-1, that is the first step in establishing a permanent manned presence in orbit above the Earth. A Long March II 2F rocket is scheduled to take […]
September 29, 2011
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