Submitted by Mmartoccia
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*Catching up with Rudy Rucker’s blog.http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/(…)“Over the years, I’ve noticed that certain kinds of computations are inexhaustibly greedy, and that by dialing up certain of their parameters to values that seem not all that big, you can get a computation whose demands would overwhelm the physical world (Read More)
EarthFirst.com | Snarking Up Green Since 1883:
It sounds rather hellish: a planet where clouds of pebbles rain down into lakes of molten lava. That’s what scientists think the atmosphere is like on a newly discovered exoplanet called COROT-7b, and it definitely makes even our worst storms here on Earth seem like a piece of cake.COROT-7b was spotted last February by the (Read More)
Hubble News:
A newly released set of images, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope before the recent Servicing Mission, highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process... (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
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The Royal Observatory Greenwich has posted an absolutely lovely video about “astrotags“, writing:“Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location. This short film, made by Jim Le Fevre and Mike Paterson for the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibi (Read More)
GruppoLocale.it:
L’immagine ospitata sul sito della missione Chandra mostra l’ammasso di galassie chiamato Hydra A: nell’immagine a falsi colori,il gas caldo (circa 10 milioni di gradi!) è rappresentato in colore blu, mentre i getti di emissione radio osservati dal Very Large Array in colore rosa. I dati ottici sono in giallo, e provengono (Read More)
HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases:
Get larger image formatsNASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are (Read More)
Hubble News:
Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration, with the release of observations from four of its six operating sc... (Read More)
Submitted by Digiphile
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Hugh Pickens writes "Studies of reproduction in space have previously been carried out with sea urchins, fish, amphibians and birds, but Brandon Keim writes in Wired that Japanese biologists have discovered that although mammalian fertilization may take place normally in space, as mouse embryos develop in microgravity their (Read More)
WebUrbanist:
Our small blue planet – and everything on it – is destined to be fried to a crisp by an expanding sun some 5 billion years hence. Will anyone be around to observe the final sunset, or will society and civilization be snuffed out long before? Here are 13 more visions of what a post-apocalyptic world might be like.Mad To The (Read More)
Scientific American:
A NASA probe that ferried material from a comet to Earth appears to have brought back an amino acid from that encounter, bolstering a theory that life's precursors may have arrived on our planet from outer space. [More]
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Submitted by Magitam
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Of all the hurdles NASA must overcome in order to reach its goal of getting humans to Mars by 2030, keeping the astronauts fed may be one of the most challenging, the Los Angeles Times reports. The agency’s food scientist must devise meals that are light and nutritious and have a 5-year shelf life—much longer than any spa (Read More)
Chandra :: Photo Album:
This composite image, combining data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope shows the molecular cloud Cepheus B, located in our Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth. (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
Washington, DC (AHN) - NASA launched the Kepler space telescope in March, and it has already discovered a distant planet.The planet is outside the Earth’s solar system and orbits a star the space agency refers to as HAT P-7. It is 26 times closer to its sun than the Earth is to its own.It is so close, that the temperature o (Read More)