Tag: science

Partial lunar eclipse, nasaksihan sa PHL 

(Eagle News) — Nasaksihan sa bansa ang bahagyang pagdidilim ng buwan kahapon ng madaling araw, Agosto 8. Nangyari ang partial lunar eclipse dakong ala-una bente dos ng madaling araw hanggang alas-kwatro ng umaga. Ayon kay Dario Dela Cruz ng Space Science and Astronomy Section ng Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical And Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA), ang partial lunar eclipse ang natatanging eclipse na nasilayan sa Pilipinas ngayong taon. Natunghayan din ito sa Western Pacific Ocean, Oceania, Australia, […]

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Astronomers stunned by star ‘nursery’ age find

PARIS, France (AFP) — Surprised astronomers have found stars of three different ages in a stellar “nursery” in the Milky Way, throwing into question the scientific consensus on how stars are formed. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile spotted three distinct groups of baby stars in the Orion nebula — the closest star “factory” to Earth, a team reported Thursday. “Looking at the data for the first time was one of […]

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Solar eclipse offers millions a chance at citizen science

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Millions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort to study the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the United States August 21. The entire country will fall into shadow as the “Great American Eclipse” passes, though the darkest path, or “totality,” will be contained in a 70-mile (113-kilometer) ribbon that moves from Oregon to […]

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China succeeds in trial mining of natural gas hydrate

BEIJING, China (Reuters) – China has mastered the core technologies for mining natural gas hydrate after it extracted high purity gas in the South China Sea for 22 consecutive days, the longest time in the world, the Ministry of Land and Resources said Friday. Trial mining of natural gas hydrate, commonly known as “combustible ice” as it can be ignited like solid ethanol, in the Shenhu Sea area about 320 kilometers southeast of south China’s Zhuhai […]

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Colossal rocket-launching plane rolls toward testing

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — A colossal aircraft capable of launching satellite-toting rockets into space is closer to testing, having been rolled out of a hangar in the desert, its creators said on Wednesday. The project backed by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been proceeding for about six years and was on track for its first launch demonstration as early as 2019, Stratolaunch Systems Corporation chief executive Jean Floyd said in a blog […]

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China’s self-developed satellite payload test system debuts at conference

SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – China’s self-developed satellite payload test system made its maiden appearance at the eighth China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC). At the 2017 CNSC which opened Tuesday in Shanghai, a satellite payload test system developed by the National University of Defense Technology was displayed. The newly released system marks a landmark progress in the country’s satellite research and development. It broke a technological bottleneck because previous devices were custom-designed only. The test system […]

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Open SESAME: science center inaugurated in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) – Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday formally launched an international research center whose members include experts from around the world including arch-rivals Iran and Israel. The International Center for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, known by the acronym SESAME, “is the first research center of its kind in the region,” said the royal court. SESAME council president Chris Llewellyn Smith said the center, located in Balqa […]

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Close call: When asteroids whisk past Earth

by Valerie DEKIMPE Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A peanut-shaped asteroid 1.3 kilometers (3,280 feet) across streaked past Earth on Wednesday, giving astronomers a rare chance to check out a big space rock up close. But not too close. Dubbed 2014-JO25, the asteroid came nearest at 12:20 GMT and is now hurtling away from the center of our solar system, said Ian Carnelli, an astronomer from the European Space Agency (ESA). “It does […]

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Whale cams reveal secret Antarctic feeding habits

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Whale cams have revealed the secret feeding habits of the giant mammals in frozen Antarctica, details on their social lives, and even how they must blow hard to clear sea ice to breathe. Scientists attached tiny cameras and electronic tags to humpbacks to better understand what they do underwater as they study how shrinking sea ice caused by warming sea temperatures linked to climate change may impact them. “Once we have […]

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Permafrost more vulnerable than thought: scientists

by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Frozen, sub-Arctic wastelands loaded with planet-heating greenhouse gases are more susceptible to global warming than previously understood, scientists warned on Monday. Even stabilising the world’s climate at two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels — the daunting goal laid down in the 196-nation Paris Agreement — would melt more than 40 percent of permafrost, or an area nearly twice the size of India, they reported in […]

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Strike force: world’s most venomous scorpion in action

    PARIS, France (AFP) — The world’s most lethal scorpion, the death stalker, has been caught on high-speed camera for the first time lashing out with its lethal stinger, scientists reported Tuesday. A comparison of half-a-dozen scorpion species shown in ultra-slow motion revealed an unsuspected variety of strike modes, they reported in the journal Functional Ecology. The death stalker had the fastest lunge of all, with its venomous stinger snapping over its head like […]

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SpaceX poised to launch first recycled rocket

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX is poised to launch its first recycled rocket on Thursday, using a booster that sent food and supplies to the astronauts living at the International Space Station in April. The goal of the launch, scheduled for 6:27 pm (2227 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is to send a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based company SES into a distant orbit. Standing tall at the NASA launchpad, […]

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