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• in Technology
  Black Holes Discovered 10 Billion Times Larger Than Our Sun
  Discovery of two new black holes called "monstrous" by researchers.
  by evilwife / on Dec 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “astrophysics”

 

• 55 Cancri e is one of the strangest planets discovered so far

  
  NetMassimo Blog — Authority: 109
  55 Cancri e is one of the planet of the star 55 Cancri A. It has a mass nearly eight times the Earth, about half the mass of Neptune. The diameter of 55 Cancri e is about twice the Earth. Its orbital period is just about 18 days and the estimated surface temperature is about 1800 degrees Celsius (3200 degrees ...
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• Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space Antenna May Still Fly

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun. These so-called gravitational waves ought to be ubiquitous but faint, and no experiment has yet registered the disturbance ...
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• To Keep or Kill? Lowly Leap Second Focus of World Debate

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.nytimes.com/ To Keep or Kill? Lowly Leap Second Focus of World Debate The United States wants to scrap the leap second, but beware: without it, noon will strike at sunrise in some 100,000 years. published date:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:54:20 GMT
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• To Keep or Kill? Lowly Leap Second Focus of World Debate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  This atomic clock in Boulder, Colo., is said to be among the most accurate in the world.
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• mills:Kateoplis posted a “Moon model by Johann FJ Schmidt at...

  
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  mills : Kateoplis  posted a “ Moon model by Johann FJ Schmidt at Chicago’s Field Museum , 1898.” One can scarcely imagine a more beautiful representation of knowledge , that strange abstraction which exerts so much control over the irreducible physical cosmos; as David Deutsch noted in his first TED ...
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• Gemini Observatorys Twin Telescopes Reboot

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The Gemini Observatorys star has been slow to rise. [More]
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• Astronomers Aim To Take First Picture of Black Hole

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 133
  Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that.
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• Chosen the names for the GRAIL spacecrafts: they are Ebb and Flow

  
  NetMassimo Blog — Authority: 109
  The official names of the two twin spacecrafts that make up the GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) are Ebb and Flow. Among the many proposals, the selected names were proposed by fourth grader from the Emily Dickinson School in Bozeman, Montana. Continue reading →
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• Big Bang camera goes dark

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 141
  HO/AFP/Getty Images The Planck Surveyor satellite shows the universe in microwaves. The dust emission of the Milky Way is visible as a broad, horizontal band. Near the galactic north and south pole, at the top and bottom of this sky projection, the temperature variations of the cosmic background radiation are ...
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• If you’re ever in Brooklyn and want/need some drink and knowledge, check out the Secret Science Club as profiled in the New York Times

  
  Princeton University Press Blog — Authority: 414
  We were thrilled to read  Jennifer Schuessler’s terrific story on the popular phenomenon of bar lecturing (and not in an intoxicated way, but a learned way!)  Check out her story here .  It looks like alcohol and science is a powerful (and successful) formula.  The Press is pleased to have had the pleasure of ...
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• The Search for the Smallest Bits of Space [Video]

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  Craig Hogan, a physicist at the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is building an experiment to see if spacetime isn’t smooth like everyone thinks, but rather bit-like and chunky on the smallest scales. The experiment is the focus of the cover story " Is Space Digital? " in the ...
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• A Sea of Spacetime Foam?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  “Is space digital?” staff editor Michael Moyer poses this fundamental question in our issue’s cover story. We often speak of the fabric of space, as if it were continuous, but is it instead a kind of patchwork of jittering, foamy quantized bits? Craig Hogan, a physicist at the University of Chicago and director ...
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• SN Primo Is Farthest Type Ia Supernova Discovered

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 126
  Supernova Primo originated 9 billion years ago, when its progenitor star exploded. The light was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope by a three-year project specifically trying to find Type Ia supernovae . These types of supernovae are paramount in order to discover more about the inflationary nature of our ...
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• α α α!

  
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  This Universe is full of carbon. Well... Not full really. I mean, technically its mostly full of absolutely nothing, closely followed by dark energy and dark matter... and if were talking about things we can see, then its mostly full of hydrogen... But Im digressing. The point is that theres quite a lot of carbon ...
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• Let Out Your Inner Geek [video]

  
  Workplace Nudity — Authority: 98
  What were you interested in when you were 12? And do you incorporate it into your work today? Maybe you should. Our newest favorite scientist , astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, loved looking through telescopes at the age of 12. Now age 53, he hasn’t stopped yet. Spotlighted by Carl Zimmer recently in ...
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• Scientists Convene to Take a Picture of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 126
  It might sound like science-fiction, but on Wednesday January 18th, astronomers, physicists, and scientists will convene in Tucson, Arizona, to discuss a feat that would have been considered ludicrous just a couple of years ago. They plan on taking a picture of a black hole. Read more @ SciTechDaily Filed under: ...
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• Kepler Now on the Hunt for Exomoons

  
  Toonari Post - A News Mash Up! — Authority: 440
  In 2009, NASA launched Kepler to search for planets outside the solar system – called extrasolar planets, or exoplanets – that are Earth-sized and have a chance of harboring life. As of December 2011, the spacecraft has discovered 2,326 exoplanets, over a hundred of which are likely candidates to meet the ...
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• 3 Small Planets Discovered Outside Solar System

  
  Quantum Day — Authority: 463
  Three planets were discovered outside the solar system. The discovery by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced that the three are the smallest confirmed planets ever detected. The three planets orbit a single star and are smaller than Earth and appear to ...
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• Steven Rawlings Case Evokes Oxford’s Inspector Morse

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  Prof. Steven Rawlings
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• Steven Rawlings Case Evokes Oxford’s Inspector Morse

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.nytimes.com/ Steven Rawlings Case Evokes Oxford’s Inspector Morse The location, and the professor’s longtime friendship with a colleague who was at least briefly under suspicion, have added to the comparisons with a police detective series. published date:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:33:50 GMT
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