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... -ray nova is a short-lived X-ray source that appears suddenly, reaches its emission peak in a few days and then fades out over a period of months. The outburst ... obscuring dust have prevented astronomers from catching Swift J1745-26 in visible light. The nova peaked in hard X-rays -- energies above 10,000 electron volts, or several thousand times that ...

... and evaporation to cool, so we were limited to about 1000 BTUs British Thermal Units peaks, with 750 average, and that's pretty low in a pressure suit. You can't ... water boils at forty degrees. If you've driven up to High Mountain, Pike's Peak, with the old cars, before the days of good thermostats, they used to all boil ...

... trace on the surface. At other sites, eruption of denser materials might build up volcanic peaks or finger-like flows. But when such flows were spotted on Titan in the past ... , such as rivers depositing sediment. At Sotra, however, cryovolcanism is the best explanation for two peaks more than 3000 feet high with deep volcanic craters and finger-like flows. "This is ...

... a NASA scientist and funded by the agency and the National Science Foundation (NSF), showed peak spring runoff now comes three weeks earlier than before the region was settled and soils ... water management, increasing water supplies and reducing the need for additional reservoir storage of water. Peak runoff under cleaner conditions would then come later in summer, when agricultural and other water ...

... 's largest supercomputer, Pleiades. The agency increased the system to 84,992 cores, achieving a peak performance of over one petaflop, the ability to do more than one quadrillion floating point ... space and highly efficient power and cooling. Discover's combined 29,368 cores yield a peak performance of more than 320 teraflops. "Discover already has begun hosting climate simulation runs for ...

... aerobic levels that are your goal. Pete was trying really, really hard to reach that peak level in spite of the pain and discomfort, and he started throwing premature ventricular contractions ... a group, with our wives, and had a very interesting tour of Russia at the peak of the Cold War. That’s another story. It has nothing to do with the ...

... near the base of Pluto’s bright heart-shaped feature shows a mountain range with peaks jutting as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the ... enough to build the mountains. Instead, a stiffer material, most likely water-ice, created the peaks. “At Pluto’s temperatures, water-ice behaves more like rock,” said deputy GGI lead Bill ...

... feature, the bright, heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region). These newly-discovered frozen peaks are estimated to be one-half mile to one mile (1-1.5 kilometers) high ... just west of the region within Pluto’s heart called Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain). The peaks lie some 68 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Norgay Montes. This newest image further illustrates ...

... of crew training at 1:30 p.m. Joining Kopra will be fellow astronaut Timothy Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency ... return to Earth on Dec. 22 after concluding their five-month space station mission. Kopra, Peake and Malenchenko will return to Earth in May 2016 as part of the Expedition 47 ...

... , along with crewmates cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency). Kopra’s first mission to space was as a flight ... and London Business School in the United Kingdom. At the space station, Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake will join Expedition 46 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey ...

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