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22 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(Wiley-Blackwell) Throughout history our species has been fascinated with the stars, the planets and the vastness of outer space. The five short decades since the Space Age began has seen spacecraft travel to the furthest reaches of our solar system. Now in "Exploring the Solar System" award-winn...
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) The world's most powerful telescope -- the new Square Kilometre Array -- is likely to need the world's biggest computer to handle the incredible amount of data it will produce -- and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is worki...
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(CSIRO Australia) Deep-diving ocean "gliders" have revealed the journey of Bass Strait water from the Tasman Sea to the Indian Ocean.
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the Moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists propose this geologic activity occurred less than 50 million years ago, wh...
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(University of New Hampshire) With the full sky shimmering in green aurora, Saturday night (Feb. 18, 2012) a team of scientists, including space physicist Marc Lessard and graduate students from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center, launched an instrument-laden, two-stage soundi...
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(Chandra X-ray Center) Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of black hole behaves.
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A team of researchers from institutions including MIT has detected the element tellurium for the first time in three ancient stars.
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Our solar system contains three types of planets: rocky, terrestrial worlds (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn), and ice giants (Uranus and Neptune). Planets orbiting distant stars come in an even wider variety, includin...
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(ESA/Hubble Information Centre) Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a water world enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It's smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth.
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21 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
(National Physical Laboratory) First examples of illegal GPS jammers detected in use in the UK. GPS expert predicts "major" incident in the English Channel in the next decade from jamming. Spoofing could "time sabotage" financial transactions.
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[VTV9] Chào buổi sáng cùng HAAC
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- [VTV9] Chào buổi sáng cùng HAAC
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- 22 Feb 2012
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- Cùng HAAC chào bình minh trong chuyên mục "Chào buổi sáng" phát ngày...
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- Amateur Astronomy in Australia
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- 17:49
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- 2
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- 14 Feb 2012
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- An insight into the extraordinary night-lives of three ordinary Australians.
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