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Science & Tech News tagged with Solar System

Introducing the Most Efficient Solar Power in the World
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, energy, Alternative Energy, Solar System )

Katie
- 31 days ago - discovermagazine.com
It's taken 25 years, but a new solar-thermal plant in New Mexico has finally broken the old efficiency record.Two new solar thermal technologies--which focus sunlight to create heat rather than convert it directly to electricity, as photovoltaics do
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NASA: Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet In Archival Data
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SirRobert
- 221 days ago - nasa.gov
In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data, and in this data has been discovered an extrasolar planet (HR 8799b) which has now been located.
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The Day The Sun Brought Darkness
Science & Tech  (tags: solar flares, Solar System, space, scientists, interesting )

Ingrid
- 235 days ago - sciencedaily.com
On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year.
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More Evidence For Multiple Meteorite Magmas
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Ingrid
- 257 days ago - spacedaily.com
Cosmochemists have identified six main compositional types of magma that formed inside asteroids during the first 100 million years of Solar System history.
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Earth's Magnetic Field Reversal
Science & Tech  (tags: magnetic reversal, pole shift, Earth, solar system, compass, polarity, electronics, communications, national defense, satellites, world, science, research, tech, technology, environment, humans, magnetosphere, concept, history, geology )

SirRobert
- 291 days ago - volconvo.com
The Earth is currently in the process of reversing its magnetic polarity, and many people are asking questions as to what they should expect. North will become South causing electronics, satellites, communications and national defense to become affected.
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Comet Strikes Increase As We Pass Through The Galactic Plane
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SirRobert
- 292 days ago - universetoday.com
As we pass across the galactic plane, this cyclic time-period seems to match the most dangerous prehistoric periods of devastating impacts upon the Earth.
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Solar System 'Bounce' May Send Comets Our Way! - (Archive)
Science & Tech  (tags: galactic plane, Milky Way Galaxy, galaxy, Universe, Solar System, Earth, comet, asteroid, meteor, mega-disaster, galactic alignment, 2012, astronomy, archaeology, computer, concept, discovery, energy, humans, interesting, science, world, technology, space )

SirRobert
- 302 days ago - newscientist.com
Computer-generated model simulations of our Solar System, as it travels through the galactic plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, reveals the cometary bombardment of Earth and the inner Solar System. (See comment-line for additional url information).
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New Theory Predicts Magnetic Field Strength Of Heavenly Bodies
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SirRobert
- 303 days ago - cordis.europa.eu
German scientists have developed a new theory, that can accurately predict the magnetic field strength of planets and stars alike.
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NASA to Launch Probe to Study Edge of Solar System
Science & Tech  (tags: science, space, research, solar system, news, interesting )

Maria
- 385 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON, (AFP) - The US space agency is to launch Sunday a space probe that will go into orbit high above earth to study the distant edge of the solar system where hot solar winds crash into the cold outer space.
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NASA Launches Probe to Study Edge of Solar System
Science & Tech  (tags: nasa, Solar System, research, study )

Ingrid
- 385 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NASA on Sunday launched a probe into orbit high above earth to study the distant edge of the solar system where hot solar winds crash into the cold outer space.
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'Little Bang' Triggered Solar System Formation
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, Supernova, Solar System, scientists, research )

Ingrid
- 402 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Now, astrophysicists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) have shown for the first time that a supernova could indeed have triggered the Solar System's formation, ...
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Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Rare
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, universe, discovery, planets, Solar System, interesting )

Ingrid
- 475 days ago - space.com
As humans look farther into the universe and discover more and more planets beyond the sun, many wonder how typical our own solar system is. Often astronomers in the planet-hunting business say discoveries of Earth-like worlds are just around the corner.
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Smallest Planet Shrinks in Size
Science & Tech  (tags: science, planets, Solar System )

Ingrid
- 490 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The smallest planet in the Solar System has become even smaller, studies by the Messenger spacecraft have shown.
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Solar System Is Egg-Shaped, Scientists Find
Science & Tech  (tags: space, solar system )

Sinikka
- 494 days ago - france24.com
Millions of textbooks depicting our Solar System as spherical have got it all wrong, according to studies of data sent back from deep space by NASA's venerable probe, Voyager 2.
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Ancient Asteroids Formed At Solar System's Start
Science & Tech  (tags: asteroids, Solar System, scientists, discovery )

Ingrid
- 596 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects.
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