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NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test
April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story -
Engineers Craft New Material for High-Performing 'Supercapacitors'
April 15, 2013 — Taking a significant step toward improving the power delivery of systems ranging from urban electrical grids to regenerative braking in hybrid vehicles, researchers have synthesized a material that ... > full story -
Discovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild
April 10, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered a blue supergiant star located far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Over 55 million years ago, the star emerged in an extremely wild environment, ... > full story -
Ghostly Green Bubble: Detailed Image of Planetary Nebula
April 10, 2013 — An intriguing new picture shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). This is ... > full story -
Dark Lightning: Are Airplane Passengers Exposed to Radiation from Intense Bursts of Gamma-Rays from Thunderclouds?
April 10, 2013 — Scientists have known for almost a decade that thunderstorms are capable of generating brief but powerful bursts of gamma-rays called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs. Because they can ... > full story -
'Post-Mortem' Yields Insight Into Kepler's Supernova
April 8, 2013 — An exploding star observed in 1604 by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler held a greater fraction of heavy elements than the sun, according to an analysis of X-ray observations from the Japan-led ... > full story -
Why Going Green Is Good Chemistry
April 8, 2013 — Shaken, not stirred, is the essence of new research that's showing promise in creating the chemical reactions necessary for industries such as pharmaceutical companies, but eliminating the resulting ... > full story -
Hydrogen from Methane Without CO2 Emissions?
April 8, 2013 — The production of hydrogen from methane without carbon dioxide emissions is the objective of a new project. Researchers are setting up a novel liquid-metal bubble column reactor, in which methane is ... > full story -
NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation
April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story -
TESS Project Will Launch Telescopes to Perform Full-Sky Search for Transiting Exoplanets
April 8, 2013 — NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project for a planned launch in 2017. The $200 million project will use an array of wide-field cameras to perform an all-sky ... > full story
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