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Hubble Reveals the Ring Nebula’s True Shape
May 23, 2013 — The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like ... > full story -
Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars
May 23, 2013 — Magnetars -- the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation -- are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe. A major campaign using NASA's ... > full story -
Spectacular Stellar Nursery: ESO's Very Large Telescope Celebrates 15 Years of Success
May 23, 2013 — With this new view of a spectacular stellar nursery ESO is celebrating 15 years of the Very Large Telescope — the world's most advanced optical instrument. This picture reveals thick clumps of ... > full story -
Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares Explained: The Culprit Is Turbulence
May 22, 2013 — When a solar flare erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics. Why? Now we ... > full story -
Fragile Mega-Galaxy Is Missing Link in History of Cosmos
May 22, 2013 — Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to new ... > full story -
Carbon Capture: Making Use of Minerals
May 22, 2013 — Ammonium salts could provide a viable way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via carbon mineralization, studies ... > full story -
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Engineers Devise New Way to Produce Clean Hydrogen
May 21, 2013 — Engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental ... > full story -
NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe
May 21, 2013 — When did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe? How brightly did they burn their nuclear fuel? Scientists will seek to gain answers to these questions with the launch of the Cosmic ... > full story -
The Pirate Ant: A New Species from the Philippines With a Bizarre Pigmentation Pattern
May 21, 2013 — Scientists discovered and described a bizarre species of pirate ant. The new Cardiocondyla pirata has its name inspired by its strange pigmentation that consist of two eye-patch like dark stripes ... > full story -
Nanoantennas Improve Infrared Sensing
May 20, 2013 — Engineers have used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact ... > full story
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