In a fitting irony, the static that once bothered scientists trying to tune in to the universe has turned out to be an incredibly rich source of information about it. picked by karenben 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share science |
Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2. picked by kakana 5 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
If you don't know the difference between classic poetry and an advert for a brothel it's best to employ a translator before you send your magazine layout to the printers... picked by pocksucket 12 months ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
This Thursday a rocket will take two new European telescopes into space, and park them not in an orbit around earth, but in an orbit around the sun. 0 comments edit related share sciencePretty cool information about a 'prime' orbiting spot named L2, 1.5 million km from earth. picked by Ankabout 7 months ago |
The combination of the Periodic Table of Chemistry with the Planck Snake of Physics is an inside joke at the expense of chemists: It took the Quantum Mechanics of Physics to explain to Chemistry its own Table of Elements. Got that? picked by suebe 6 months ago 4 comments edit related share arts |
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the "Large Molecule Heimat", a giant gas cloud near the galactic centre in the conste... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have discovered the youngest known extrasolar planet. Its host star is still surrounded by the disk of gas and dust from which it was only recently born. This discovery allows scientists to draw important conclusions about the timing of planet formation. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |