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Indonesia-focused coal mining company Asia Resource Minerals (ARMS) aims to complete a recapitalisation programme by the end of June, the company said on Tuesday, as it released a prospectus for its refinancing.
Published: March 31, 2015 at 12:14PM
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Lessons From the Kleiner Perkins Trial | Intel in Talks to Buy Chip Maker | Running Out the Clock on Foreclosures
Published: March 30, 2015 at 03:39AM
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NGC 5023 is part of the M51 group of galaxies. The brightest galaxy in this group is Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, which has been captured by Hubble many times. NGC 5023 is less fond of the limelight and seems rather unsociable in comparison — it is relatively isolated from the other galaxies in the group.
Astronomers are particularly interested in the vertical structure of disks like these. By analyzing the structure above and below the central plane of the galaxy they can make progress in understanding galaxy evolution. Astronomers are able to analyze the distribution of different types of stars within the galaxy and their properties, in particular how well evolved they are on the Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram — a scatter graph of stars that shows their evolution.
NGC 5023 is one of six edge-on spiral galaxies observed as part of a study using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. They study this vertical distribution and find a trend which suggests that heating of the disc plays an important role in producing the stars seen away from the plane of the galaxy.
In fact, NGC 5023 is pretty popular when it comes to astronomers, despite its unsociable behavior. The galaxy is also one of 14 disk galaxies that are part of the GHOSTS survey — a survey which uses Hubble data to study galaxy halos, outer disks and star clusters. It is the largest study to date of star populations in the outskirts of disk galaxies.
The incredible sharp sight of Hubble has allowed scientist to count more than 30,000 individual bright stars in this image. This is only a small fraction of the several billion stars that this galaxy contains, but the others are too faint to detect individually even with Hubble.
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Mines built this company town. Jack and Sandra Looney hope vines — the wine grapes growing on a former strip mine in the hills above — will help to draw visitors here.
Published: March 30, 2015 at 06:02AM
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Mines built this company town. Could vines — the wine grapes growing on a former strip mine in the hills above — help to draw visitors here?
Published: March 29, 2015 at 08:17AM
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Mines built this company town. Jack and Sandra Looney hope vines — the wine grapes growing on a former strip mine in the hills above — will help to draw visitors here.
Published: March 29, 2015 at 08:15AM
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Kelly and Kornienko will spend a year in space and return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Most expeditions to the space station last four to six months. By doubling the length of this mission, researchers hope to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration spaceflight. This knowledge is critical as NASA looks toward human journeys deeper into the solar system, including to and from Mars, which could last 500 days or longer.
The Soyuz is set to lift off at 3:42 p.m. EDT, Friday, March 27 on a six-hour, four-orbit flight to the station.
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More information on one year crew.
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Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has proposed imposing a “substantial” financial penalty on Asia Resource Minerals Plc following an investigation which highlighted a breach of listing rules, the company said on Wednesday.
Published: March 25, 2015 at 02:11AM
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The scene spans from east, at left, to southeast. It combines four pointings of the rover’s panoramic camera (Pancam) on March 13, 2015, during the 3,958th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity’s work on Mars.
The rover team selected Marathon Valley as a science destination because observations of this location using the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter yielded evidence of clay minerals, a clue to ancient wet environments. By the time Opportunity explores Marathon Valley, the rover will have exceeded a total driving distance equivalent to an Olympic marathon. Opportunity has been exploring the Meridiani Planum region of Mars since January 2004.
This version of the image is presented in approximate true color by combining exposures taken through three of the Pancam’s color filters at each of the four camera pointings, using filters centered on wavelengths of 753 nanometers (near-infrared), 535 nanometers (green) and 432 nanometers (violet).
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Today’s television highlights.
Published: March 21, 2015 at 08:00PM
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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow over Earth. The moon’s shadow masks the solar surface and blocks sunlight from reaching Earth directly – but the amount of sunlight blocked depends on location.
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By CORAL DAVENPORT
Senator Mitch McConnell has taken the unusual step of reaching out to governors with a legal blueprint for them to follow to stop the rules in their states that require reduced carbon pollution.
Published: March 19, 2015 at 08:00PM
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A former Kentucky mining inspector pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a federal charge that he took $46,000 in bribes from a one-time state lawmaker in exchange for not citing the official’s coal mining companies for violations.
Published: March 18, 2015 at 01:37PM
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Webster Parish residents and others said they would not shy from a confrontation if the authorities proceed with a plan to openly burn an abandoned stockpile of M6 propellant.
Published: March 18, 2015 at 08:00PM
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The 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Anhui province city Saturday afternoon, and 13 more people were injured, officials said.
Published: March 14, 2015 at 05:27PM
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