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NASA Bids Farewell to Spitzer Telescope After 16 Years of Service NASA has said goodbye to the Spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service using infrared light to unveil otherwise invisible features of the universe, including seven planets the size of Earth around the star Trappist-1. "It's quite amazing when you lay out ...
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Solar Orbiter Mission To Study Sun; Launch Date February 7 A solar orbiter mission by the researchers of the University of Michigan will be launched on February 7 for studying the physics of the Sun and will also be the first to capture the images of Sun's poles. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter will ...
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Home Star Stunner: Best Ever Images of Solar Surface Herald New Era Why is the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface? What drives its 11-year cycle of magnetic activity? And how does its solar wind propagate out into the solar system? Scientists hope to answer all these questions and more in the coming ...
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Unprecedented data confirms that Antarctica's most dangerous glacier is melting from below Warm ocean water has been discovered underneath a massive glacier in West Antarctica, a troubling finding that could speed its melt in a region with the potential to eventually unleash more than 10 feet of sea level rise. The unprecedented research, part of a ...
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Spitzer - One of NASA's most powerful space telescopes goes into dark after 16-year career NASA has formally said goodbye to the Spitzer space telescope. The US space agency had been using the Spitzer space telescope for the past 16 years, for making use of infrared light to unveil otherwise invisible features of the universe, including seven ...
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Sweating Robot Beats the Heat Electronics cannot handle the heat. That is why computers rely on fans, and car engines need radiators. But these cooling devices are necessarily rigid, which makes them a bad fit for soft robots made from stretchy, flexible plastics instead of metal. So some ...
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Bizarre Cosmic Dance Offers Fresh Test for General Relativity For the past two decades, astronomers have been testing Einstein's general theory of relativity using an exquisite celestial laboratory located thousands of light-years away, in the direction of the Southern Cross constellation. Discovered in 1999, this ...
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Surprisingly warm water found on underside of Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' An underwater robot named Icefin that has gone where no submersible has gone before — to the underbelly of Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" — has uncovered unusually warm temperatures there. The hunk of ice, officially known as the Thwaites Glacier, ...
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Space-time is swirling around a dead star, proving Einstein right again The way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein's theory of general relativity, a new study finds. That prediction is a phenomenon known as frame dragging, or the ...
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Nasa's Chandra spots 4 super cluster of galaxies on a collision course Astronomers have made use of data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (Nasa) Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes to complie a detailed map of collision between four galaxiy clusters. According to Nasa, this collision of galaxy ...
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