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Cluster Makes A Shocking Discovery Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
ESA’s Cluster was in the right place and time to make a shocking discovery. The four spacecraft encountered a shock wave that kept breaking and reforming – predicted only in theory.
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Cluster Bomb Ban - Approved Posted: 1 year ago by thenegativeone
More than 100 nations have reached an agreement on a treaty which would ban current designs of cluster bombs.
"Current Designs"?? Doesn't that just defeat the object?
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Newly discovered galaxy cluster in early stage of formation is farthest ever identified Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
UC Irvine scientists have discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that is 11.4 billion light years from Earth – the farthest of its kind ever to be detected. These galaxies are so distant that the universe was in its infancy when their light was emitted.
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High-energy X-rays detected at galaxy cluster Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A distant galaxy cluster has turned into a giant particle accelerator, spinning electrons over vast distances at high speeds. Scientists discovered this phenomenon by observing highly energetic X-rays emanating from the Ophiuchus cluster of galaxies.
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Giant galaxy cluster seen in early universe Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers have glimpsed the largest cluster of galaxies ever seen in the distant, early universe. The discovery of this far-off group, estimated to contain as much mass as a thousand large galaxies, offers further proof of the existence of the enigmatic force called dark energy.
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Time to overhaul Newton's theory of gravitation? Galaxy cluster models cast doubt on dark matter Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
With the conventional theory of gravitation, based on Newton’s ideas and refined by Einstein 92 years ago, dark matter helps to explain the motion of galaxies, and clusters of galaxies, on the largest scales. Now two Canadian researchers suggest that the motion of galaxies in a distant cluster is more easily explained by a Modified Gravity (MOG) theory than by the presence of dark matter.
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Picturesque Nebula Spotted in Distant Star Cluster Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a snapshot of a picturesque planetary nebula tucked away in a distant cluster of stars within the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Cluster watches Earth’s leaky atmosphere Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth’s atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA’s formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns out that the Earth’s own magnetic field is accelerating the oxygen away.
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Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way, thus supplying a prime template for star formation studies.
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Chandra and Newton Spotted Two Galaxies Merging Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The orbiting X-ray telescopes XXM-Newton and Chandra have caught a pair of galaxy clusters merging into a giant cluster. The discovery adds to existing evidence that galaxy clusters can collide faster than previously thought.
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Inside the Sex Offender Cluster of One Long Island Town Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
There are 45 sex offenders living in one small Long Island town, 17 on the same block, 7 in a single suburban ranch. Inside a sex-offender cluster.
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Cluster Ballooning - the latest extreme sport Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
These skills are not rocket science, but they are NOT something you’re going to figure out on your first flight while you’re drifting toward the high tension lines and imminent crispy-critterhood! Fly safely!
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The cosmic Christmas tree with a REAL star on top Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
A team from the European Southern Observatory captured the breathtaking picture of the Christmas Tree Star Cluster over more than 10 hours using the Wide Field Imager in Chile.
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Scientists Discover Magnetic Superatoms Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a ‘magnetic superatom’ – a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table – that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.
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Scientists discover 8,000-year-old trees Posted: 2 years ago by deEPCHill
Oldest living tree cluster reveals every climate change that ever occurred.
Theme pic is not an actual photo. I can't find one.
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Riding a Flying Armchair Posted: 6 months ago by suebe
Ah...the peace of cluster ballooning! Video in article.
A follow up to this post
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First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a "soliton" wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space.
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40 men from Camp Lejeune report breast cancer. Posted: 2 months ago by TraumaMamma
"This is statistically unheard of," said Tallahassee resident Mike Partain, 41, a breast cancer survivor who was born at the base and is looking for others like himself. "We've got a cancer cluster that defies explanation."
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Suzaku Snaps First Complete X-ray View of a Galaxy Cluster Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's outskirts, where a billion-year plunge to the center begins.
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Artificial photosynthesis moves a step closer Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Jülich scientists have made an important step on the long road to artificially imitating photosynthesis. They were able to synthesise a stable inorganic metal oxide cluster, which enables the fast and effective oxidation of water to oxygen.
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