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  X-Ray View of a Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry

  April 17, 2013 — A long Chandra observation reveals the SN 1006 supernova remnant in exquisite detail. By overlapping 10 different pointings of Chandra's field-of-view, astronomers have stitched together a cosmic ... > full story
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  SOFIA Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation

  April 17, 2013 — Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of ... > full story
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  Massive Galaxy Had Intense Burst of Star Formation When Universe Was Only 6 Percent of Current Age

  April 17, 2013 — Astronomers find the most prolific star factory yet seen, in a far-distant galaxy that reveals important information about the cosmic environment in the early history of the ... > full story

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  • Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early Universe
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  ALMA Telescope Pinpoints Early Galaxies at Record Speed

  April 17, 2013 — Astronomers have used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early ... > full story
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  NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves

  April 16, 2013 — To tease out what happens at that boundary of the magnetosphere and to better understand how radiation and energy from the sun can cross it and move closer to Earth, NASA launches spacecraft into ... > full story
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  Plasma Device Could Revolutionize Energy Generation and Storage

  April 16, 2013 — Engineers have developed a method of creating and controlling plasma that could revolutionize American energy generation and ... > full story
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  Strange New Bursts of Gamma Rays Point to a New Way to Destroy a Star

  April 16, 2013 — Scientists have pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant ... > full story

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  • Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
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  Building a Better Capacitor With Custom Nanorods

  April 16, 2013 — A new process for growing forests of manganese dioxide nanorods may lead to the next generation of high-performance ... > full story
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  Scientists Transform Cellulose Into Starch: Potential Food Source Derived from Non-Food Plants

  April 16, 2013 — A team of researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as ... > full story
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  Surprising Findings on Hydrogen Production in Green Algae

  April 15, 2013 — New research fuels hope of efficient hydrogen production with green algae may be possible in the future, despite the prevailing scepticism based on previous ... > full story

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