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Herschel Spectroscopy of Future Supernova 21

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 28, 2009 @01:50PM from the that's-a-big-star dept.

davecl writes "ESA's Herschel Space Telescope has released its first spectroscopic results. These include observations of VYCMa, a star 50 times as massive as the sun and soon to become a supernova, as well as a nearby galaxy, more distant colliding starburst galaxies and a comet in our own solar system. The spectra show more lines than have ever been seen in these objects in the far-infrared and will allow astronomers to work out the detailed chemistry and physics behind star and planet formation as well as the last stages of stellar evolution before VYCMa's eventual collapse into a supernova. More coverage is available at the Herschel Mission Blog, which I run."

Comment Why not just do what I do? (Score 1) 497

by HEMI426 on Monday August 17, 2009 @03:45PM (#29096623) Attached to: The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer

I take my damaged/unusable hard drives into a field and shoot holes in them, repeatedly. Effective and fun. You can even invite co-workers to help. Shooting hard drives is also a good way to use my old battle rifles. :)

Comment Re:Apple + patches == ohnoes (Score 1) 296

by HEMI426 on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @12:37PM (#24387493) Attached to: Apple Still Has Not Patched the DNS Hole

Apple has indeed caught up to most other low-end server vendors as far as hardware features goes. You can get an XServe with redundant power supplies now! They've even got a rack kit that isn't an absolute nightmare! They have LOM! You can option the machines with a RAID controller, but in our case we just reinstalled on to a software RAID mirror set up by Disk Utility. Their hardware is nowhere near anything special (although their one-piece drive sleds work decently), but it's nice to see that they're at least trying on the hardware front. If they did the same on the software front they might have something.

All of this stuff is present (and the RAID controller is available) for the Intel XServe I'm using now. It wasn't (except I think you could purchase a RAID controller) for the G4 XServe it replaced. I believe some of these features showed up in the G5 XServes.

My favorite new feature that Apple added to the XServe hardware? Link LEDs on their network interfaces.

The hardware isn't "slick." It's finally "not awful."

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