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Grand Canyon Designated a Dark Sky Park
Jun 20, 2016The International Dark-Sky Association and the National Park Service are excited to announce that Grand Canyon National Park is now a Provisional IDA International Dark Sky Park. “The designation of Grand Canyon National Park as an ...
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ALMA and World Observatories Join Hands to Create Virtual Earth-Sized Telescope
Dec 29, 2015Chile's ALMA observatory says it is joining forces with other space observatories around the world to create a virtual earth-sized telescope capable of visualizing objects on the moon. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ...
Tags: ALMA, World Observatories, Virtual Earth-sized Telescope
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Chinese Scientist Among Nature's Ten People for 2015
Dec 18, 2015The world-renowned journal Nature Thursday released its annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2015, which includes one Chinese scientist whose work in human embryo gene editing has caused repeated debate in the academic ...
Tags: Chinese Scientist, human embryo gene editing, Nature's Ten
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9 Things You May Not Know About Start of Spring
Feb 5, 2015The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Spring, the first solar term of the year, begins this year on Feb 4 and ends on Feb 18. Start of Spring lifts the curtain of spring. After that ...
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Neri Oxman Creates Range of 3-D Printed Garments Inspired From Ancient Planetary Explorers
Dec 18, 2014The Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman has created a range of 3-D printed garments inspired from ancient planetary explorers. Representing the life sustaining elements earth, water, air and fire, the range is infused with ...
Tags: 3D printing, Synthetic Biology, Apparel
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Astronomers Using ALMA Telescope Have Discovered Splattered Remains of Comets Colliding
Mar 11, 2014Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered the splattered remains of comets colliding together around a nearby star; the researchers believe they are witnessing the total destruction ...
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Researchers Detected Stream of Stars in One of Andromeda Galaxy's Outer Satellite Galaxies
Feb 23, 2014The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Andromeda Galaxy's outer satellite galaxies, a dwarf galaxy ...
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Asteroids Can Have a Highly Varied Internal Structure
Feb 14, 2014ESO's New Technology Telescope has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different ...
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A New Map Developed by Researchers From MIT and The Paris Observatory Charts The Size
Feb 8, 2014To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core, mantle, and crust. ...
Tags: solar system, Jupiter, migration, Goldilocks
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Scientists Using The Herschel Space Observatory Have Made The First Definitive Detection
Jan 22, 2014Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thought to shoot up periodically from Ceres ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Telescope
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Gaia-ESO Project Has Provided Evidence Backing up The Chemical Composition of The Stars
Jan 21, 2014A breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project has provided evidence backing up theoretically predicted divisions in the chemical composition of the stars that make up the Milky Way's disc – the vast collection of giant gas ...
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[SBW2007] 1 But Sometimes Nicknamed SBW1, Is a Nebula with a Giant Star at Its Center
Jan 20, 2014Floating at the center of this new Hubble image is a lidless purple eye, staring back at us through space. This ethereal object, known officially as [SBW2007] 1 but sometimes nicknamed SBW1, is a nebula with a giant star at its center. The ...
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Princeton-Led International Team Switched on a New Experiment
Jan 20, 2014In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
Tags: Dark Matter, Project Aims
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Astronomers Have Discovered a Distant Quasar Illuminating a Vast Nebula of Diffuse Gas
Jan 19, 2014Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Researchers at the University of California, ...
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Not All Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) Play Nicely with The Nice Model
Jan 18, 2014The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System formation, ...
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