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Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of the giant planet's poles. Saturn is only in this position every 15 years and this favorable orientation has allowed a sustained study of Saturn's almost symmetric northern and southern lights. An enormous and grand ringed planet, Saturn is certainly one of the most intriguing bodies orbiting the Sun....
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora West Allis Medical Center and Aurora BayCare Medical Center have been named as two of the 16 best community hospitals in the nation, according to Becker's Hospital Review. They are the only hospitals in Wisconsin to make the list. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/CG78204LOGO-b) This award was based on a compilation of scores and accolades that are publicly available. A primary guideline for this award was what the facility...
BEIJING, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Maxthon announced its browser already has in place technology that blocks zero-day "Aurora" hacking attacks such as the one that broke into computers run by 20 companies, including Google, Adobe, and Juniper Networks, making away with intellectual property. The attack exploited a previously unknown vulnerability, nicknamed Aurora, in Internet Explorer. The attacks took advantage of buffers in a file, mshtml.dll, engineers at Maxthon explained....
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Health Care has appointed Bev Greenberg president of the Aurora Health Care Foundation. In this new position, she will lead philanthropy and social responsibility for Aurora and will report to the Foundation's board of directors. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/CG78204LOGO-b) Greenberg comes to Aurora after 30 years of experience in corporate social responsibility, team-building, strategic planning, development and marketing....
College of Optometrists in Vision Development offers advice for those having trouble with seeing in 3-D AURORA, Ohio, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With Avatar now heading into its fifth week as a box office hit, many people are headed to movie theaters to see what the excitement over 3-D is all about. Unfortunately, many of them may be disappointed because they didn't know they can't see 3-D. While the concept of being "3-D ready" means that the new 3-D TVs, showcased at the Consumer...
AURORA, Colo., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- To validate the quality and integrity of the Graebel Relocation Services Worldwide standards and controls, the SAS 70 Type II favorable opinion was achieved in 2007 and subsequently in 2008 and in 2009. SAS 70 is a widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA). A service auditor's examination performed in accordance with SAS 70 represents a service organization has been through an...
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Health Care announced today that Timothy Sullivan of Bucyrus International, Thomas Bolger of Harris Bank and Gail Hanson of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board have been elected to the organization's Board of Directors. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090303/CG78204LOGO-b) Sullivan serves as the president and chief executive officer of Bucyrus International, Inc. This organization began in the late 19th century and continues to...
AURORA, Ohio, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- In the dawn of their 15th year of providing email marketing solutions, Admail.net (www.admail.net) has taken it upon themselves to give, rather than receive, a gift on their anniversary. The release of Email Builder 2.0 improves upon an already flexible and robust email marketing and list management service. "Email Builder 2.0 was a natural progression from our original Email Builder. This system improves upon everything that worked well in the...
AURORA, Ill., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Aurora Public Library has acquired the site for its new downtown main library. The Aurora Public Library announced today that it completed the acquisition of property in downtown Aurora from The Vanstrand Group for its new central library. The new main library site is at the intersection of Benton Street and River Street, just a block west of the site of its current downtown main branch. "We are very excited about this site for our new...
AURORA, Ill., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site in Aurora that expands network coverage, enabling more customers in the area to use their wireless phones concurrently to make calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; access the Internet; view high-quality videos; and download music, games and ringtones, while enjoying clearer reception and fewer dropped calls. The new cell site, which is equipped with a permanent backup...
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908 - April 2, 1995) was a Swedish plasma physicist born in Norrköping, Sweden. Alfvén received his PhD from the University of Uppsala in 1934. His thesis was titled "Investigations of the Ultra-short Electromagnetic Waves." He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved on to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the...
Aurora -- The Polar Aurora are natural displays of light in the sky that can be seen with the unaided eye only at night. An auroral display in the Northern Hemisphere is called the aurora borealis, or the northern lights; in the Southern Hemisphere it is called the aurora australis. Auroras are the most visible effect of the sun's activity on the earth's atmosphere. The beautiful and often eerie curtains of light in the night time sky have been observed by people for millennia. An aurora...
Van Allen Radiation Belt -- The Van Allen radiation belt is a torus of energetic charged particles around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field. The presence of a radiation belt had been theorized prior to the Space Age and the belt's presence was confirmed by the Explorer I on January 31, 1958 and Explorer III missions, under Doctor James Van Allen. The trapped radiation was first mapped out by Explorer IV and Pioneer III. Qualitatively, it is useful to view this belt as...
Solar Wind -- Solar wind, a stream of particles (mostly high-energy protons ~ 500 Kev) that is continually ejected from the surface of the Sun. The composition of this plasma is identical to the Sun's corona, 73% hydrogen and 25% helium with the remainder as trace impurities, and is ionized. Near Earth, the velocity of the solar wind varies from 200km/s-889km/s. The average is 450 km/s. Approximately 3000 tons of material is lost from the Sun every hour as solar wind. Since solar...
Solar Flare -- A solar flare is a violent eruption that explodes from a star's photosphere with energies equivalent to tens of millions of hydrogen bombs. Solar flares from the Sun send out a streams of highly energetic solar wind that can present a radiation hazard to spacecraft outside of planetary magnetospheres and can disrupt radio signals on Earth. Solar flares were first observed on the Sun in 1859 by English astronomer Richard Carrington. They have also been observed to...
