NASA's Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities

Scientists want to understand what causes giant explosions in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, such as this one. The eruptions are called coronal mass ejections or CMEs and they can travel toward Earth to disrupt human technologies in space. To better understand the forces at work, a team of researchers used NASA data to study a precursor of CMEs called coronal cavities. Credit: NASA/Solar...

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NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock on Its Journey

The drive by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity during the mission's 43rd Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 19, 2012) ended with this rock about 8 feet (2.5 meters) in front of the rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway from the rover's landing site, Bradbury...

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Dark energy camera snaps first images ahead of survey

Dark energy camera snaps first images ahead of survey  The camera comprises 62 separate CCDs, the same  kind of detector familiar from consumer cameras Dark energy camera’s first image Fornax galaxy cluster The most powerful sky-scanning camera yet built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three-quarters of our Universe. The Dark Energy Survey's 570-million-pixel camera...

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Latest Smartphones Details

Top of Form Latest Smartphones At a time when alomost all telecom companies are vying for a better hold in the smartphone market, new smartphone handsets have been launched in the market keeping in mind the performnance and luxury in mind. Here, we bring you some of the smarphones that have been launched lately.  Nokia Lumia 920 *Windows 8 OS *4.5" 720p PureMotionHD+...

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Hubble Catches Glowing Gas and Dark Dust in a Side – On Spiral

Hubble Catches Glowing Gas and Dark Dust in a Side – On Spiral TThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a sharp image of NGC 4634, a spiral galaxy seen exactly side-on. Its disk is slightly warped by ongoing interactions with a nearby galaxy, and it is crisscrossed by clearly defined dust lanes and bright nebulae. NGC...

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Photographs a Tendril-Like Solar Eruption in Stunning Detail

 NASA Photographs a Tendril-Like Solar Eruption in Stunning Detail An Amazing CME Erupts from the Sun Captured August 31, 2012 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr We’ve covered some pretty amazing coronal mass ejections (CMEs) here on PopSci, but we might have to crown this one the best yet. Blasting forth from...

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More planets could harbour life

More planets could harbour life                                New computer models suggest there could be many more habitable planets out there than previously thought. Scientists have developed models to help them identify planets in far-away solar systems that are capable of supporting life. Estimates of habitable planet...

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