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NASA's radiation belt probes named for James Van Allen BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: November 9, 2012 7 NASA has renamed two satellites launched in August for James Van Allen, a pioneering astrophysicist who discovered the radiation belts surrounding Earth...

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Australia, South Africa to share super telescope - ABC News (Australia) Dual site...I didn't see that coming. It looked like Australia might not get it at all for a while there.

Fuel For Black Holes - SpaceRef By my calculations, that is the same as resolving a feature on 3 m across on the Moon :blink:

My Google-fu has failed me :( I have a list of accelerations that have been sampled from an accelerometer at 100 Hz and I need to apply a 10 Hz low-pass 2-pole Butterworth filter to the data. Can anyone recommend how I might do this? Can I stay in the time domain, since both the input and...

Student scientist solves astrophysics mystery I haven't seen anything about this from other sources. Does anyone have more info?

Dark energy, given credibility in the 1990's by the study of Type 1a supernovas, has been confirmed by two other methods in an Australian galaxy survey. Dark energy is real Only in Australia would we name a science experiment after four guys in coloured skivvies :lol:

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Direct Images of Disks Unravel Mystery of Planet Formation

SpaceRef: Tool makes search for Martian life easier

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Railgun Reaches World Record of 33 megajoules - Off-World Applications? (with Video) http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1481 There is some nice high speed footage in there :) I calculate 33 MJ = 8124 m/s dV for a 1 kg payload.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/05/3058322.htm It was an ATR-72-212.

Da Vinci's ornithopter takes flight http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/24/3020694.htm?section=justin Video: HPO The Snowbird on Vimeo Quite an impressive wing span at 32m and it has an interesting wing tip motion in the video. I wonder what the wing is made of?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/24/3020863.htm?section=justin

Just a reminder that tomorrow is International Observe the Moon Night: http://observethemoonnight.org/. So get out your scopes, binoculars, or just your eyes and have at it :)

Unravelling the mystery of massive star birth -- all stars are born the same way http://www.physorg.com/news198327946.html The main finding: And this gives interesting perspective: :blink:

Well, I know it is rather early to be starting this thread, but I am itching for some vengeance so I couldn't help myself. This Cricinfo article also inspired me: http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-australia-2010/content/current/story/464122.html I must admit I'll be asleep during this match...

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