Items tagged with solar

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Cylindrical Solar Panels Thursday, October 9th, 2008 - 12:40:18 - Anuradha Menon Solyndra, Inc. today announced a new solar photovoltaic (PV) system for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra's PV system is designed to generate... read more

Massive Planet-Sized Object Found Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 18:39:44 - Anuradha Menon COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that... read more

Small Asteroid to Light Up Sky Over Africa Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 10:38:34 - Anuradha Menon An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, setting off a potentially... read more

NASA Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 12:31:55 - Anuradha Menon Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect... read more

Hubble to be Installed with Unique Camera Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - 14:53:16 - Anuradha Menon Wide Field Camera 3, a new camera for the Hubble Space Telescope, to be installed by astronauts during the upcoming space shuttle servicing mission... read more

Planets Turned to Dust Saturday, September 27th, 2008 - 15:20:50 - Ehud Rattner Call it a planetary pile up. Astronomers have discovered the remains of a collision of two planet-sized bodies in a well-established solar system in... read more

Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 - 18:55:25 - Ehud Rattner Data from the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission, show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels... read more

ChroTel: A New Robotic Solar Telescope Friday, September 19th, 2008 - 10:29:35 - Anuradha Menon A recently built telescope on Tenerife will observe eruptive events in the solar chromosphere and help to gain physical insights into the underlying... read more

Theory of the Sun’s Role in Solar System Saturday, September 6th, 2008 - 17:43:35 - Anuradha Menon A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever... read more

Toward Textile-Based Solar Cells Saturday, August 30th, 2008 - 12:25:33 - Anuradha Menon A 100km2 area covered with 10% efficient solar cells can produce enough electricity to satisfy the national requirement. Unfortunately, the total... read more

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