Monthly Archives: October 2009

New Ring of Saturn Discovered

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

NASA has discovered a new ring of  Saturn. The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered  it around the planet — by far the largest of the giant planet’s many rings.The new ring is far from the planet with an orbit tilted … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a Dying Star

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

A computer program that simulates the final hours of a star’s life has been developed by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Stony Brook University in New York…… read on

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Simoom

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Simoom (Arabic: سموم‎ samūm; from the root سم s-m-m, “to poison”) is a strong, dry, dust-laden local wind that blows in the Sahara, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the deserts of Arabian Peninsula. Alternative spellings include samiel, sameyel, samoon, samun, … Continue reading →

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Mapping Eye Infections in India with GIS & RS

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

In a tiny laboratory of the physics department in Lady Doak College, a project is on to map eye infections that cause blindness among children in Pudukottai district. Started last year, the three-year initiative is using the GIS through remote … Continue reading →

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