Thursday 31 March 2016

Paperlike battery electrode made with glass-ceramic

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A mechanical engineer has developed a paperlike battery electrode that may improve tools for space exploration or unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Flat boron is a superconductor

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Scientists have determined that two-dimensional boron is a natural low-temperature superconductor. It may be the only 2-D material with such potential.
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Mile-high Mars mounds built by wind and climate change

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New research has found that wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years. Their location helps pin down when water on the Red Planet dried up during a global climate change event.
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Planet formation in Earth-like orbit around a young star

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New images reveal never-before-seen details in the planet-forming disk around a nearby Sun-like star, including a tantalizing gap at the same distance from the star as the Earth is from the Sun.
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Laser cloaking device could help us hide from aliens

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Two astronomers suggest humanity could use lasers to conceal the Earth from searches by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.
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Hubble's journey to the center of our galaxy

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Peering deep into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, this Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Except for a few blue, foreground stars, the stars are part of the Milky Way’s nuclear star cluster, the most massive and densest star cluster in our galaxy.
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Hubble's Journey to the Center of Our Galaxy


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Hubble's infrared vision pierced the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy to reveal more than half a million stars at its core. Except for a few blue, foreground stars, the stars are part of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster, the most massive and densest stellar cluster in our galaxy. Located 27,000 light-years away, this region is so packed with stars, it is equivalent to having a million suns crammed into the volume of space between us and our closest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. At the very hub of our galaxy, this star cluster surrounds the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, which is about 4 million times the mass of our sun.

To learn even more about the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster and Hubble, join astronomers and scientists during a live Hubble Hangout discussion at 3pm EDT on Thurs., March 31 at http://hbbl.us/y6k.


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http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/11/

Found: Andromeda’s first spinning neutron star

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Decades of searching in the Milky Way’s nearby ‘twin’ galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutron star, by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope.


via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Found_Andromeda_s_first_spinning_neutron_star

Big Dipper to Southern Cross

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Welcome to an equatorial night. This remarkable 24 frame night skyscape was captured from Maba Beach on the Indonesian island of Halmahera during the evening of March 4. Seen from a mere 0.7 degrees northern latitude, both famous northern and southern asterisms and navigational aids lie within the panoramic view. The Big Dipper is on the far left and Southern Cross at the far right. Beyond the fading campfire on that night a yellow-orange celestial triangle is set by Mars, Antares, and Saturn. It stands above the rising central Milky Way, or "Miett" in the local Maba language. Of course, you can follow the pole pointing stars in the cup of the Big Dipper or body of the Southern Cross to the north and south celestial poles. Both lie just at the horizon in the view from the island's equatorial beach.

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Three thousand drawings to fly into space on Cheops

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Thousands of children across Europe have taken part in a competition to submit drawings that will be miniaturised and sent into space onboard ESA’s Cheops astronomy satellite.


via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Three_thousand_drawings_to_fly_into_space_on_Cheops

Tracking deer by NASA satellite

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Mule deer mothers are in sync with their environment, with reproduction patterns that closely match the cycles of plant growth in their habitat. And new research using NASA satellite data shows that tracking vegetation from space can help wildlife managers predict when does will give birth to fawns.
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Technology to enable unzipping of the graphene plane

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A research team has developed a technique, which enables unzipping of the graphene plane without uncontrollable damage.
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'Smoothed' light will help search for Earth's twins

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Physicists have developed optical technology for the 'correction' of light coming from distant stars, which will significantly improve the 'seeing' of telescopes and therefore will enable us to directly observe exoplanets as Earth-twins.
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