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mini-Neptune

Are Super-Earths Really Mini-Neptunes?

A diagram comparing the Earth, at left, to a cross-section of a super-Earth on the right. The super-Earth has a relatively small rocky core, an atmosphere of methane, water and hydrogen and an extended hydrogen envelope. Credit: H. Lammer. Royal Astronomical Society, UK-(ENEWSPF)-In the last two decades astronomers have found[Read More…]

Remarks by President Obama at Ceremony for the 2011 National Medals of Science, and National Medals of Technology and Innovation

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2013 – 2:22 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you so much. Please, everyone have a seat.  Well, it is my incredible pleasure and honor to welcome this incredibly talented group of men and women in the White House.  And I want to congratulate them[Read More…]

Cosmic web stripping

Where Are All The Dwarf Galaxies?

Cosmic Web Stripping, Visualization (Credits: Alejandro Benitez Llambay) LEIBNIZ-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers of the international CLUES collaboration have identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the famous missing dwarf problem: the lack of observed dwarf galaxies compared with that predicted by the theory of Cold Dark Matter and Dark[Read More…]

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