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RSSNASA’s spacecraft named Ulysses has shown a closest glimpse of the Sun.
The spacecraft was launched on October 6, 1990 and last week it was directly over the south pole of Sun.
Researchers who are closely monitoring the spacecraft mentioned...
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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch plans to forgo making deals at this year’s Allen & Co. media retreat, dampening the five-day event renowned as an...
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The Messenger space probe, which began its 5 billion mile journey to Mercury four years ago, has provided new evidence that the closest planet to the sun is contracting...
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The (Baltimore) Sun will cut about 100 jobs, including 55 to 60 in the newsroom, through buyouts, layoffs and the closing of open positions. The latest in a series of...
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The (Baltimore) Sun will cut about 100 jobs through buyouts, layoffs and the closing of open positions.
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Researchers said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
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At its closest approach, Solar Probe will be 7 million kilometers from the sun, witnessing the Sun at 23 times wider than what we see it from Earth. The vessel will...
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AP, San Jose
The global sales chief of Sun Microsystems Inc. resigned Monday as the slumping server and software maker revealed plans to restructure its sales force to focus more on...
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A laser in Oxfordshire has heated matter to 10 million Celsius, hotter than the surface of the Sun, marking a major landmark in research.
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Are you the one who likes basking in the sun- munching groundnuts or chatting on phone or listening to your favourite music while lying there in the sunshine along a...
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Though space research has made steady technological headways over the past years, the Sun has always remained the seemingly unconquerable frontier. NASA seems to have...
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There is no end to employing the majestic star’s energy. You just need to have an inclination to do so…….and anything and everything can charged up with this free...
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Another out of the ordinary application of Sun’s energy is to power kilns. Piñon Jorge Pineda, a researcher at the National Polytechnic Institute, has come up with a...
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Let’s give the clean renewable energy a try to dole out some foot-tapping melodies. And I don’t mean that you need to rush to some music shop and buy over the...
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Trees use sun’s energy to make food for themselves (photosynthesis is the word for it). That’s what we have understood as a kid. But today we can come across a tree...
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