Munich, September 9 : Using ESO’s (European Southern Observatory’s) Very Large Telescope, astronomers have been able to study planet-forming discs around young Sun-like stars in unsurpassed detail, clearly revealing the motion and distribution of the gas in the inner parts of the disc, which implies the presence of giant planets.
Planets could be home to other forms of life, so the study of exoplanets ranks very high in contemporary astronomy.
More than 300 planets are already known to orbit stars other than the Sun, and these new worlds show an amazing diversity in their characteristics.
Munich, September 3 : The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of a spiral galaxy, which is a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way.
Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen gas, it is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy, whose shape has led to it being nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, though it is officially known as Messier 83.
The dramatic image of the galaxy Messier 83 was captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, located high in the dry desert mountains of the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Munich - European broadcaster ProSiebenSat. 1, which owns a string of TV channels in Germany, Scandinavia and eastern Europe, is not putting them up for sale, a main owner said in a news interview published Tuesday.
Joerg Rockenhaeuser, who heads the German operations of private-equity investor Permira, dismissed suggestions that the TV company raise cash by selling channels.
"From the shareholder point of view, that wouldn't make any sense," he told the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Permira and another private-equity investor, KKR, control 88 per cent of Munich-based ProSiebenSat. 1, which in turn owns the Swedish-based group SBS. Earnings at ProSiebenSat. 1 have lagged amid high debt after the SBS takeover.
Munich - Programs like Outlook and Thunderbird are useful for sending and receiving e-mail messages. Another option is to sign up for an e-mail account with one of the many services on the internet. All correspondence can then be handled fully online. The same services often offer a pay-version alongside the cost-free ones, promising extra functionality in the process. Are the extra services worth the cost?
Munich - It may have sounded like science fiction 20 years ago, but it's now reality: computers listen to what you say.
Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 is the latest incarnation of Nuance's speech recognition software for PCs. And rival company Linguatec has announced the release date of the successor to Voice Pro 11 this autumn. That means that updated versions of the two key programs in voice recognition industry will be available in stores at the same time. But what are these programs really capable of, and who can benefit the most from them?
Munich - Revelations that Siemens turbine salesman paid kickbacks to Italian electricity company Enel triggered military concern in Germany four years ago, corporate sources said Saturday.
The bribery to secure orders from Enel was part of a 1.3 billion-euro (1.9-billion-dollar) web of corruption that has plunged the German conglomerate into legal tangles, but it was not previously known that it threatened Siemens' defence secrecy clearance.
Munich - Programs like Outlook and Thunderbird are useful for sending and receiving e-mail messages. Another option is to sign up for an e-mail account with one of the many services on the internet. All correspondence can then be handled fully online. The same services often offer a pay-version alongside the cost-free ones, promising extra functionality in the process. Are the extra services worth the cost?
It may have sounded like science fiction 20 years ago, but it's now reality: computers listen to what you say.
Munich - Revelations that Siemens turbine salesman paid kickbacks to Italian electricity company Enel triggered military concern in Germany four years ago, corporate sources said Saturday.
