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by Staff Writers Manoa HI (SPX) Jul 06, 2009 Two University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system.
goran72 writes "A new image, taken with an infrared camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, has revealed a cosmic fireworks display, in the form of tens of thousands of previously unseen comet-shaped knots inside the Helix Nebula. Unlike previous optical images of the Helix Nebula knots, the infrared image shows thousands of clearly resolved knots, extending out from the central star at ...
William Gibson's Neuromancer was first published 25 years ago. Dr_Ken writes with an excerpt from an article at MacWorld that delves into the current state of some of the technology that drives the book: "'Neuromancer is important because of its astounding predictive power. Gibson's core idea in the novel is the direct integration of man and computer, with all the possibilities (and horrors) ...
High Knoll Observatory — July Fourth is a special day for Americans, because it is when we remember and celebrate that we declared our independence from British rule in our Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Here is a short list of other Fourth of July non-astronomical historical events that are worth remembering:
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.
An international team of astronomers has unveiled a new survey giving an unprecedented view of the inner regions of our home galaxy, the Milky Way peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust.
Federal agencies are testing use cases as well as pushing standards and definitions that could help the business world.
A new image of a gaseous space nebula reveals tens of thousands of giant comet-like knots raining down in a star-spangled cosmic fireworks display.
New image of a gaseous space nebula reveals tens of thousands of giant comet-like knots raining down.
Washington, July 3: A new image, taken with an infrared camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, has revealed a cosmic fireworks display, in the form of tens of thousands of previously unseen comet-shaped knots inside the Helix Nebula.
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