Items tagged with universe

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Jupiter's Core Twice as Big as Thought Friday, November 28th, 2008 - 16:53:32 - Anuradha Menon Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, researchers announced today. Burkhard Militzer, a geophysicist at... read more

Mysterious High-Energy Cosmic Rays Detected Thursday, November 20th, 2008 - 18:10:27 - Anuradha Menon Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a... read more

Indian Spacecraft Hits the Moon Saturday, November 15th, 2008 - 12:04:05 - Anuradha Menon In a historic event, the Indian space programme achieved a unique feat today with the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on Pandit... read more

New Jupiter - Type Planet Found Friday, November 14th, 2008 - 10:32:12 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times... read more

Cassini Finds Mysterious Aurora on Saturn Thursday, November 13th, 2008 - 12:05:09 - Anuradha Menon Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora... read more

The Deepest Image of the Universe Yet Saturday, November 8th, 2008 - 14:57:54 - Anuradha Menon Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colors, will enjoy the... read more

Indian Spacecraft Enters Lunar Trajectory Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 18:29:48 - Anuradha Menon The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am... read more

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth Monday, November 3rd, 2008 - 12:22:58 - Anuradha Menon During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A... read more

Searching for Primordial Antimatter Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 12:25:03 - Anuradha Menon Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis - leftover from the very early Universe. New results using data from... read more

Hubble Scores a Perfect '10' Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 18:46:21 - Anuradha Menon The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. The science operations were resumed... read more

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