- June 29, 2009Space & Physics
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- The International Space Station (ISS) is a big bird, boasting nearly an acre of solar panels along its backbone. Those panels make the ISS reflective enough so that the station can sometimes be seen from the ground as it passes roughly 220 miles (350 kilometers) above...
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- September 1, 2004Space & Physics
Magnetars
- Some stars are magnetized so intensely that they emit huge bursts of magnetic energy and alter the very nature of the quantum vacuum
- Christopher Thompson, Chryssa Kouveliotou and Robert C. Duncan
- The Secret Lives of Stars
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0904-68sp
- August 1, 2004
Sloshing in Space
- Analyzing how liquids affect the motion of ships
- Govert Schilling
- November 1, 2007
Dark Riddles
- Behavior of galaxy cluster may shift thinking about gravity
- Govert Schilling
- December 1, 2002
The Brightest Explosions in the Universe
- Every time a gamma-ray burst goes off, a black hole is born
- Neil Gehrels, Luigi Piro and Peter J. T. Leonard
- June 1, 2005
Rare Flare
- Odd magnetar burst partly solves gamma-ray riddle
- Govert Schilling
- February 7, 2005
String Revival
- Are cosmic strings behind unusual lensing effects?
- Govert Schilling
- December 26, 2012Space & Physics
Launch Success for Telescope that Measures Submillimeter Light from Stellar Nurseries
- The balloon-borne telescope is set to probe why the Milky Way doesn't form as many stars as it might
- Govert Schilling and SPACE.com
