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Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole, Study Suggests
February 13, 2013 New data suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter ... > full story -
NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-Ray Imager
February 7, 2013 Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar ... > full story -
Improved X-Ray Microscopic Imaging
February 6, 2013 X-ray microscopy requires radiation of extremely high quality. In order to obtain sharp images instrument and sample must stay absolutely immobile even at the nanometer scale during the recording. ... > full story -
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New Modeling Approach Transforms Imaging Technologies
February 5, 2013 Researchers are improving the performance of technologies ranging from medical CT scanners to digital cameras using a system of models to extract specific information from huge collections of data ... > full story -
A Spiral Galaxy With a Secret
February 5, 2013 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope -- with a little help from an amateur astronomer -- has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million ... > full story -
Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts
February 5, 2013 In the bright, constant sun of the Antarctic summer, a NASA-funded team is launching balloons. There are twenty of these big, white balloons, each of which sets off on a different day for a leisurely ... > full story -
Benefits of CT Outweigh Cancer Risks in Young Adults, Study Finds
February 5, 2013 The underlying medical conditions facing young adults who undergo computed tomography (CT) exams represent a significantly greater health risk than that of radiation-induced cancer from CT, according ... > full story -
NASA's Super-TIGER Balloon Breaks Records While Collecting Cosmic Ray Data
February 4, 2013 A large NASA science balloon has broken two flight duration records while flying over Antarctica carrying an instrument that detected 50 million cosmic ... > full story -
Gold Nanoparticle Can Transport Powerful Radioactive Particles Directly to Tumors for Treatment
February 4, 2013 In a new study, researchers have demonstrated the ability to harness powerful radioactive particles and direct them toward small cancer tumors while doing negligible damage to healthy organs and ... > full story -
Light Shone on Star Mystery: Why Sun's Corona Is Much Hotter Than Its Surface
February 4, 2013 Scientists have begun to unlock the mystery of why the outer edge of the Sun is much hotter than its surface for the first ... > full story
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