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Hubble solves mystery on source of supernova in nearby galaxy
Closest type Ia supernova in decades solves a cosmic mystery
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Physicists shed new light on supernova mystery
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:11/9/2011
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NASA telescopes help solve ancient supernova mystery
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Dark matter mystery deepens
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:10/18/2011
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Herschel helps solve mystery of cosmic dust origins
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:7/8/2011
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Fermilab Unravels More About Neutrino Mystery
When operating at highest intensity, the NuMI beam line transports a package of 35,000 billion protons every two seconds to a graphite target. The target converts the protons into bursts of particles with exotic names such as kaons and pions. Like a beam of light emerging from a flashlight, the particles form a wide cone when leaving the target. A set of two special lenses, called horns (photo), is the key instrument to focus the beam and send it in the right direction. The beam particles decay and produce muon neutrinos, which travel in the same direction. Photo: Peter Ginter.
Right when you thought that Fermilab was a thing of the past, new work with neutrinos are exciting us all over again. The scientists associated with the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory just announced their findings of a rare phenomena – the transformation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. (…)
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Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:6/27/2011
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Wonder and Mystery above the Very Large Telescopes
What’s that bright orange dot above the large telescope on the right?
Solar mystery solved
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:3/3/2011
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Quasar’s belch solves longstanding mystery
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:2/23/2011
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Direct images of disks unravel mystery of planet formation
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:2/18/2011
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Hotspots in fountains on the Sun’s surface may help explain coronal heating mystery
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:1/7/2011
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The Mystery of John Glenn’s Fireflies Returns
Astronaut John Glenn as photographed during his space flight by an automatic sequence motion picture camera mounted inside Friendship 7. Credit: NASA
What were the “fireflies” that John Glenn saw during the first orbital spaceflight for the US? Enjoy a new “you-were-there” look at the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts, but in a vastly improved format. A new website called Spacelog has put the transcripts in a searchable, linkable format. Spacelog is an open source venture making the transcripts more accessible to the public, and adding photos and timelines in with the text. Currently the Apollo 13 mission and Mercury Friendship 7 mission are available with more coming in the future. A linking feature allows users to Tweet and link to particular parts of the transcripts. As an open source project, Spacelog is also looking for help.
Below is the part of the Friendship 7 transcript where John Glenn describes small, mysteriously illuminated particles surrounding his capsule:
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Solving the Mystery of Dark Gamma Ray Bursts
Artists impression of a dark gamma-ray burst. Credit: ESO
Unraveling the mystery of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is a story filled with international intrigue, fantastic claims, serious back-tracking, and incremental improvements in our understanding of the true nature and implications of the most energetic, destructive forces in the Universe. New results from a team of scientists studying so-called “dark gamma-ray bursts” have firmly snapped a new piece into the GRB puzzle. This research is presented in a paper to appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on December 16, 2010.
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Pulsating star mystery solved
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:11/24/2010
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Mystery of Saturn’s Wonky B Ring: Solved
Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn’s main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn’s B ring to cast long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2009.
It has long been known that Saturn’s rings are not the perfect hoops they appear as in small amateur telescopes, and when the Cassini spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn, the wonky disorder of the massive B ring became even more apparent. Scientists were stunned by towering vertical structures, scalloped edges on the rings, and odd propeller-like features. But scientists have now found the cause of these strange features: The region is acting just like a spiral galaxy, said Carolyn Porco, team lead of the Cassini imaging team.
“We have found what we hoped we’d find when we set out on this journey with Cassini nearly 13 years ago,” said Porco, “(and have gotten) visibility into the mechanisms that have sculpted not only Saturn’s rings, but celestial disks of a far grander scale, from solar systems, like our own, all the way to the giant spiral galaxies.”
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