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PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Epic Summer at Parx Casino® brings the hottest reality TV stars to the region. Parx Casino®, 2999 Street Road in Bensalem, PA, announces appearance dates by top contestants from NBC's The Voice on Friday, July 6, 2012 and the stars of TLC's DC Cupcakes on Friday, July 20, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120424/PH93555LOGO ) Starting it off direct from Hollywood to Parx Casino® - fan favorites from the second season...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jered Floyd, CTO of Permabit Technology Corporation, a recognized leader in data efficiency technology, will join Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump to discuss how IT managers can utilize deduplication to help overcome challenges in primary storage in a one-hour web meeting June 21 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Entitled "What is Breaking Deduplication?" the Storage Switzerland webcast will tackle the Top 4 reasons why efficient,...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AstraZeneca and Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced an exclusive worldwide license agreement for the global development and commercialization of R256, Rigel's inhaled JAK inhibitor shown to inhibit IL-13 and IL-4 signaling, which is being investigated as a treatment for moderate to severe chronic asthma. In preclinical research, R256 has been shown to reduce airway inflammation and improve lung...
TROY, Mich., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair today announced the addition of CONVERSE software from PART Engineering GmbH to the HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA) to provide process structure interaction software to the array of applications available at no additional cost to HyperWorks users. CONVERSE offers engineers an easy-to-use tool that bridges the gap between injection molding simulation and mechanical simulation by importing the results from a third-party injection...
New research shows that other sun-like stars in the universe can send off flares much larger than those seen on our sun. Solar flares are the result of broken magnetic-field loops as they pass through sunspots. As these loops become twisted and contorted, the flares occur, sending enormous amounts of charged particles, energy and radiation outward. So far, the largest solar flare ever measured on our sun happened on September 1, 1859, by British astronomer Richard Carrington. He simply...
The North Star, the Pole Star, the Guiding Star, Polaris: Its many names reflect the many centuries humans have gazed northward to it for guidance. However, recent studies have shown that the North Star is losing mass at a significant rate. Will Polaris, steadfast beacon for early sailors and adventurers alike, vanish from the night sky? Hilding Neilson of the Argelander Institute of Astronomy at the University of Bonn in Germany thinks that he and his colleagues have unlocked the answer...
New research by a Danish physicist suggests that life might have been influenced by supernovae near the Solar System. When massive stars reach the end of their life, they explode as supernovae, which can be brighter than an entire galaxy of normal stars. The remnants of these events release vast numbers of high-energy charged particles known as galactic cosmic rays (GCR). If a supernova is close enough to our Solar System, the enhanced GCR levels can have direct impacts on the...
Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely – the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and regained it in the opposite direction, so the positive side becomes the negative side. But, of course, the sun is not a simple bar magnet and the causes of the switch, not to mention the complex tracery of moving magnetic fields throughout the eleven-year cycle, are not easy to map out....
[ Watch the Video ] Astronomers have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding a nearby planetary system, giving clues about how these systems form and evolve. Scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to find that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must be smaller than originally thought. The high-resolution images show that both the inner and outer edges of the thin, dusty disk have very sharp edges. This, as well as computer simulations, have...
[ Watch the Video ] One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does – look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). But on this day he saw something he'd never noticed before: a pattern of cells with bright centers and dark boundaries occurring in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. These cells looked somewhat like a cell pattern that occurs on the sun's...
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Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers (September 12, 1838 "“ January 24, 1915) was a German astronomer born in Göttingen, Germany. He attended the University of Göttingen and worked at the University of Königsberg. Auwers specialized in astrometry, making very precise measurements of stellar positions and motions. He detected the companion stars of Sirius and Procyon from their effects on the main star's motion, before telescopes were powerful enough to visually observe them....
Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 "“ December 17, 1973) was an American astrophysicist and astronomer born in Wilton, New Hampshire. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1891 and MIT in 1894, with a degree in chemical physics. In 1895 Abbot was hired by Samuel Pierpont Langley as an assistant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) despite his lack of experience in astronomy. Hired originally for his laboratory skills, Abbot became acting director of the SAO in 1896. When...
Triangulum Australe Constellation -- Triangulum Australe, the Southern Triangle, is completely visible in latitudes south of 20 degrees north from April through June. Its three brightest stars have been called the "Three Patriarchs", Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It can easily be recognized by its shape, or asterism. This is one of the 12 southern constellations named by Johann Bayer in the early 1600's. The three bright stars in this constellation are so recognizable that they can be...
Serpens Constellation -- Serpens (the snake) is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy. Among the modern constellations it is unique in being split into two pieces, Serpens Caput (representing the head of the snake) to the west and Serpens Cauda (representing the tail) to the east. Between these two pieces lies the constellation of Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer. Notable features Since Serpens is regarded as being one constellation...
Scorpius Constellation -- Scorpius (the scorpion) is one of the constellations of the zodiac. In western astrology it is known as "Scorpio." It lies between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. It is a large constellation located in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way. Notable features Scorpius contains many bright stars, including Antares (α Sco), Graffias (β1 Sco), Dschubba (δ Sco), Sargas (θ Sco), Shaula (λ Sco), Jabah (ν Sco),...
![Swift X-ray Telescope View of Exoplanet HD 189733b\](/media/gallery/hubble-space-telescope/thumbs/thumbs_hs-2012-23-c-full_jpg.jpg "Swift X-ray Telescope View of Exoplanet HD 189733b\")
