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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - October 2015

Oct 2015

Oct 16, 2015

Bizarre Star Spotted

Astronomers claimed to have spotted a bizarre star that looks like something an alien civilisation would have built.
The star named KIC 8462852 lies just above the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra.
The star first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009.

Oct 15, 2015

New Changes in Jupiter's 'Great Red Spot

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's planetary portrait has captured new changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
The new images confirm that the Great Red Spot continues to shrink and become more circular, as it has been doing for years.
The Great Red Spot remains more orange than red these days, and its core, which typically has more intense color, is less distinct than it used to be. An unusual wispy filament is seen, spanning almost the entire width of the vortex. In Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt, the researchers found an elusive wave that had been spotted on the planet only once before.

Oct 14, 2015

Pluto's Smallest Moon Styx Located

NASA has released a stunning image of Pluto's smallest moon 'Styx' captured by the New Horizons spacecraft from a distance of 391,000 miles (631,000 km).
Styx is the faintest of Pluto’s five moons.
This tiny moon has a highly reflective, icy surface, similar to what was previously found for two of Pluto’s other small moons, Nix and Hydra.
Styx was discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, when New Horizons was more than two-thirds into its voyage to Pluto.

Oct 13, 2015

Aging Star Waving Goodbye

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a dying star's final moments.
The curving structure of Menzel 2 resembles a last goodbye before the star reaches its final stage of retirement as a white dwarf.
Planetary nebula PK 329-02.2, otherwise known as Menzel 2, is located in the constellation of Norma in the southern sky. It is sometimes referred to as Mz 2 and is named after the astronomer Donald Menzel who discovered the nebula in 1922.

Oct 12, 2015

Scientists Create Virtual Rat Brain

Scientists have created a virtual rat brain made up of 30,000 neurons, 55 layers of cells and 207 different neuron subtypes.
For 10 years, a global initiative called the Blue Brain Project - hosted at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) - has been attempting to digitally create a section of juvenile rat brain.
Getting a full, high-resolution picture of all the features and activity of the neurons within a brain region and the circuit-level behaviours of neurons is a major challenge.

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