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Newly recorded gamma rays from a microquasar may reveal how the black holes or neutron stars powering them can accelerate particles to enormous energies.Published: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Plume of lunar material contained roughly 25 gallons of vapor and ice.Published: Friday, November 13th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
The amount of lithium in the atmosphere of sunlike stars is a powerful indicator of whether such stars have planets, a new study reveals.Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Combining infrared and X-ray images from three orbiting observatories, NASA has unveiled a never-before-seen composite portrait of the Milky Way’s bustling center.Published: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
The signature of positrons has been found for the first time in gamma rays associated with storms on Earth. (p. 9)Published: December 5th, 2009; Vol.176 #12Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
BLOG: Art and science meld during a musical performance for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space TelescopePublished: Thursday, November 5th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Science & Society
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Gamma-ray emissions are providing a guide to finding the compact, rapidly rotating remnants of massive stars known as pulsars.Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
By detecting gamma rays, a new generation of telescopes bolsters theory that supernovas are origin of some cosmic rays (p. 8)Published: December 5th, 2009; Vol.176 #12Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Home / News / November 21st, 2009; Vol.176 #11 / Gamma-ray observations shrink known grain size of spacetimeA new study eliminates some theories of quantum gravity by finding that spacetime isn’t as lumpy as some models had proposed. (p. 14)Published: November 21st, 2009; Vol.176 #11Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
The Ares 1 set to replace the space shuttle is too expensive and won’t be ready soon enough, the Augustine Committee concludes.Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
A mother lode of 32 newly discovered planets brings the number of known extrasolar planets to more than 400 and suggests that lightweight planets are common around sunlike stars. (p. 14)Published: November 21st, 2009; Vol.176 #11Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Data from another craft suggest iron and mercury, not frozen water, were kicked up when a spent rocket plunged into a lunar craterPublished: Friday, October 16th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
New observations reveal a dense ribbon structure that current models don't explain. (p. 15)Published: November 21st, 2009; Vol.176 #11Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
A proposed ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may receive about 100 times more oxygen than previously estimated. (p. 8)Published: November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
BLOG: NASA hype over moon crash may have clouded value of real data.Published: Friday, October 9th, 2009Found in: Atom & Cosmos
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