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Space dust in plasma organizes into double helix shape—like DNA
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-08-21 09:05:31
Researchers used computer modeling to show that microscopic inorganic interstellar dust (space dust) injected into plasma will organize into single and double-helixes, the shape of DNA, with properties that look similar to living organisms.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-08-21 09:05:31
Researchers used computer modeling to show that microscopic inorganic interstellar dust (space dust) injected into plasma will organize into single and double-helixes, the shape of DNA, with properties that look similar to living organisms.
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Dark energy? It’s mysterious! It may decide the fate of our universe!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-22 09:33:56
Dark energy is a type of energy that is only hypothesized to exist. If it does exist, it may permeate all of the universe, may increase the rate of the universe's expansion, and finally decide our fate. To find out if it exists, cosmologists are proposing several large-scale experiments.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-22 09:33:56
Dark energy is a type of energy that is only hypothesized to exist. If it does exist, it may permeate all of the universe, may increase the rate of the universe's expansion, and finally decide our fate. To find out if it exists, cosmologists are proposing several large-scale experiments.
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Great Canary Telescope flies free for first time
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-15 08:56:19
On Friday, July 13, 2007, the Great Canary Telescope (GCT), located on a mountain within the Canary Islands, began a one-year series of tests and preliminary observations on its 10.4 meter (34.1-foot) main mirror, the world's largest telescope for seeing visible and infrared light.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-15 08:56:19
On Friday, July 13, 2007, the Great Canary Telescope (GCT), located on a mountain within the Canary Islands, began a one-year series of tests and preliminary observations on its 10.4 meter (34.1-foot) main mirror, the world's largest telescope for seeing visible and infrared light.
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GalaxyZoo: Galactic number of volunteers needed to identify 1 million galaxies
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-12 18:03:42
Due to expanding technology, many more large-scale astronomical surveys are being conducted of large sections of the sky. Because of this technological ability, millions of galaxies are being examined. However, some of them need your help!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-12 18:03:42
Due to expanding technology, many more large-scale astronomical surveys are being conducted of large sections of the sky. Because of this technological ability, millions of galaxies are being examined. However, some of them need your help!
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Look back in time about 13.2 billion years, to Dark Age of universe
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-12 08:55:51
The Keck II telescope, the world’s largest telescope, on top of Mauna Kea (Hawaii) has looked at the early universe when it was only 500 millions of years old—only a baby in astronomical time—and found evidence of galaxies just beginning to form stars.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-12 08:55:51
The Keck II telescope, the world’s largest telescope, on top of Mauna Kea (Hawaii) has looked at the early universe when it was only 500 millions of years old—only a baby in astronomical time—and found evidence of galaxies just beginning to form stars.
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