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Urban Galaxies Dramatically Cease Star-Making Ways

In the fable of the town and country mice, the country mouse visits his city-dwelling cousin to discover a world of opulence. In the early cosmos, billions of years ago, galaxies resided in the equivalent of urban or country environments. Those that dwelled in crowded areas called clusters also experienced a kind of opulence, with lots of cold gas, or fuel, for making stars.

20 Dec 2013

Gravitational Perturbation Helps Confirm Presence of Previously Predicted Unseen Planet

Searching for periodic transits in hundred of thousand of stars was the primary goal of the Kepler space telescope. More than 3500 of such periodic transits were found during the 4 years of the mission. However, not all the planets located in the Kepler field-of-view are transiting their host star. Indeed, if their orbital plane is slightly misaligned (only a few degrees is enough) with the line of sight from the Earth, the planet is not transiting and thus, is “unseen” from the Kepler spacecraft.

20 Dec 2013

Prime Minister of Singapore Visits Centre for Quantum Technologies

The Centre for Quantum Technologies was yesterday honoured with a visit by the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong.

20 Dec 2013

Quantum Many-Body Problem of the Photoelectric Effect is Quite Complicated to Analyze

In contrast to its apparent simplicity (that brought Einstein his Nobel Prize), the photoelectric effect, when an electron is knocked out from its parent atom by a photon, is quite complicated to analyze in general, especially when the atom contains a large number of electrons.

20 Dec 2013

Light Reverberates Through Murky Environment Around Pulsating Variable Star

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed the variable star RS Puppis over a period of five weeks, showing the star growing brighter and dimmer as it pulsates. These pulsations have created a stunning example of a phenomenon known as a light echo, where light appears to reverberate through the murky environment around the star.

20 Dec 2013

QD Vision Introduces Cost-Effective Quantum Dot, Full Gamut 100% NTSC Color LCD Solution

QD Vision, Inc. today announced the newest family of its award-winning Color IQ™ optical component compatible with LCD systems utilizing 3mm light guide plates. The new optic represents a 25% width reduction from QD Vision’s previous offerings, making it the thinnest and most cost-effective quantum dot, Full Gamut 100% NTSC color LCD solution available today.

19 Dec 2013

Hubble Portrays Bright Southern Hemisphere Star Swaddled in a Gossamer Cocoon of Reflective Dust

This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. The super star is ten times more massive than our sun and 200 times larger.

19 Dec 2013

Dawn’s Framing Camera Reveals Beauty of Giant Asteroid Vesta

Some beauty is revealed only at a second glance. Such a case is the giant asteroid Vesta, which was the object of scrutiny by the Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2012. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau have now re-analysed the images of this giant asteroid obtained by Dawn’s framing camera. The images reveal in unprecedented detail not only geological structures that are invisible to the naked eye, but also landscapes of incomparable beauty.

19 Dec 2013

Distant Supernovae with Unusual Extreme Luminosity Discovered

Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light-years away and a hundred times more luminous than a normal supernova. Their findings appear in the Dec. 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

19 Dec 2013

Study of Massive Stars Reaffirms Four Spiral Arms of Milky Way Galaxy

A 12-year study of massive stars has reaffirmed that our Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate sparked by images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that only showed two arms.

19 Dec 2013

New Quantum Lithography Protocol May Help Improve Resolution of Photolithography

Photolithography uses light beams to design thin geometric patterns on the substrates of semiconductors used in microelectronic devices. This is achieved using a chemical reaction on a light-sensitive chemical, called photoresist.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 19 Dec 2013

Launch of New ‘Citizen Science’ Project that Lets Anyone Become Cosmic Explorer

‘Radio Galaxy Zoo’, launching today, is a new ‘citizen science’ project that lets anyone become a cosmic explorer.

18 Dec 2013

Milky Way Project Displays New ‘Animals’ to Track in the Cosmic Zoo

Since 2010, about 50,000 volunteers have taken to their computers to help astronomers catalog star-blown bubbles captured in images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Their efforts resulted in several scientific papers, and a deeper understanding of our Milky Way galaxy and its frothy star-forming clouds.

18 Dec 2013

Researchers Explore Emerging Pollutants’ Photochemical Behavior in Natural Waters Using Quantum Chemical Calculations

Organic sunscreens released from sea-bathing or wastewater discharges are emerging pollutants frequently detected in natural waters, and draw extensive concerns due to potential ecological risks. Photochemical transformation of organic sunscreens in surface waters may influence their environmental fate and ecological risk. The latest researches on the photochemical behavior of organic sunscreens were summarized in a paper entitled.

18 Dec 2013

Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Test Components of NASA's Low Density Supersonic Decelerator Project

A giant crane will tower above NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., shooting out of a hilly mesa like an oversized erector set, ready to help test components of NASA's Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project. The goal of the challenging technology, led by JPL, is to enable a future mission to Mars or other planetary bodies that uses heavier spacecraft and lands them at locations that were previously not achievable.

18 Dec 2013

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Urban Galaxies Dramatically Cease Star-Making Ways

Gravitational Perturbation Helps Confirm Presence of Previously Predicted Unseen Planet

Prime Minister of Singapore Visits Centre for Quantum Technologies

Quantum Many-Body Problem of the Photoelectric Effect is Quite Complicated to Analyze

Light Reverberates Through Murky Environment Around Pulsating Variable Star

QD Vision Introduces Cost-Effective Quantum Dot, Full Gamut 100% NTSC Color LCD Solution

Hubble Portrays Bright Southern Hemisphere Star Swaddled in a Gossamer Cocoon of Reflective Dust

Dawn’s Framing Camera Reveals Beauty of Giant Asteroid Vesta

Distant Supernovae with Unusual Extreme Luminosity Discovered

Study of Massive Stars Reaffirms Four Spiral Arms of Milky Way Galaxy

New Quantum Lithography Protocol May Help Improve Resolution of Photolithography

Launch of New ‘Citizen Science’ Project that Lets Anyone Become Cosmic Explorer

Milky Way Project Displays New ‘Animals’ to Track in the Cosmic Zoo

Researchers Explore Emerging Pollutants’ Photochemical Behavior in Natural Waters Using Quantum Chemical Calculations

Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Test Components of NASA's Low Density Supersonic Decelerator Project

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