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Enceladus weather: Snow flurries and perfect powder for skiing
Global signature of frost deposition on Enceladus revealed in colour mapping. The top map shows a colorized map of the predicted pattern of fallout from Enceladus’s icy plumes (bus represent thicker accumulations), with the global colour patterns observed by Cassini imaging camera. The bottom map is the global 3-color map of Enceladus showing areas that […]
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine
October 3, 2011
(Unfortunately, Ralph Steinman died on Friday, days before it was announced he had won the Nobel prize for medicine). Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries about the immune system that opened new avenues for the treatment and prevention of infectious illnesses and cancer. American Bruce Beutler and French scientist […]
ALMA Opens Its Eyes
October 3, 2011
The most powerful millimetre/submillimetre-wavelength telescope in the world opens for business and reveals its first image Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope still under construction, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all […]
Telescope to spot aliens
October 3, 2011
World’s largest eye on the sky to join quest for signs of ET The device will be built in the Chilean desert in a dome the size of a stadium Housed in a dome almost the size of Big Ben and containing a mirror nearly half the length of a football pitch, it wasn’t exactly […]
Constraints on Hubble constant and deceleration parameter in power-law cosmology from the observational H(z) and SNe Ia data
October 3, 2011
Suresh Kumar …… Read more: http://arxiv.org
October 3, 2011
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