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Cosmic Dust Rings No Guarantee Of Planets
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) — Dust rings around distant stars, considered by many as “smoking gun” evidence of orbiting planets, can form on their own, U.S. research suggests. The finding is possible bad news for those who use the structures to guide them to stars in their search for distant planets, and may raise questions about [...]
Satellite Takes Most Detailed Earth Photo
MOSCOW (UPI) — A Russian weather satellite has taken the highest-resolution photograph ever captured of Earth in its entirety, astronomers say. The Elektro-L is orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator, sending photographs of the entire planet every 30 minutes, Gizmodo.com reported. The images combine multiple light wavelengths, both [...]
Turtles’ Epic Long-Distance Journeys Eyed
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they’ve been studying how baby loggerhead sea turtles embark alone on a migration that takes them around the entire North Atlantic basin. After emerging from their underground nests on the beaches of eastern Florida, the turtles begin an epic migration that eventually returns then to North American [...]
Baby Galaxies Grew Quickly To Sustain Life
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) — Galaxies in the young universe evolved faster than previously thought, offering the potential for early planet formation and life, Danish researchers say. Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute said up until now it was thought it had taken billions of years for stars to form and create galaxies [...]
People More Truthful In Text Messages
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) — Text messaging can reveal more truthful responses to sensitive questions as people are more candid in them than in voice interviews, U.S. researchers say. That is the conclusion of a study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. “The preliminary [...]
New Species Of Fish Found In Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) — Swedish scientists say a new fish species has been discovered in Vaderoarnam, known as the “Weather Islands,” off the country’s west coast. The species, Callionymus reticulatus, or reticulated dragonet, was captured on film by Lars-Ove Loo, an underwater photographer, while making an inventory ahead of the creation of a new nature [...]
Soyuz Crew Heading For Space Station
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (UPI) — The latest crew members for the International Space Station are on their way after a launch in Kazakhstan, NASA said Tuesday. NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 9:01 a.m., Kazakhstan time (11:01 p.m. EDT Monday), [...]
Supernova Shows Secrets Of Its Brightness
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) — A NASA orbiting telescope has observed the first evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas around the star, astronomers say. The findings by the Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain why some supernova explosions are more powerful than others, a release by the Chandra group at [...]
Wall Art From France Said World’s Oldest
DORDOGNE, France (UPI) — Anthropologists say a 1.6-ton block of engraved limestone found in southern France is the earliest evidence of wall art, dating to 37,000 years ago. U.S and European researchers have been excavating at Abri Castanet, the site of the discovery, for the past 15 years, calling it one of the oldest sites [...]
Cosmic Dust Rings No Guarantee Of Planets
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) — Dust rings around distant stars, considered by many as “smoking gun” evidence of orbiting planets, can form on their own, U.S. research suggests. The finding is possible bad news for those who use the structures to guide them to stars in their search for distant planets, and may raise questions about [...]
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