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NASA's GLAST satellite lanched recently

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NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket on June 11. The spacecraft will study the highest-energy form of light, helping scientists to answer questions about supermassive black hole systems, pulsars and the origin of cosmic rays. GLAST is now on its own with its solar arrays deployed and placed into a circular orbit 350 miles above the Earth, prepared to monitor the universe and the mysterious gamma-ray bursts. GLAST is a powerful space observatory that will explore the most extreme environments in the universe, and search for signs of new laws of physics and what composes the mysterious dark matter, explain how black holes accelerate immense jets of material to nearly light speed, and help crack the mysteries of the staggeringly powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts. With high sensitivity GLAST is the first imaging gamma-ray observatory to survey the entire sky every day. It will give scientists a unique opportunity to learn abo...

Windows Run Commands

I recently found the following list of all windows run commands in a computer magazine. These commands are useful to start something quickly without going into hierarchy of menus or windows. Just press Windows Key + R to open the Run window and type in the required command. These commands also come handy when the explorer crashes and you are left without any taskbar or icons. In that case you have to press Ctrl+Del+Delete to open the Task Manager and select "New Task(Run...)" from File menu and enter the command. Command Description Applications calc Starts Calculator excel Starts Microsoft Excel explorer Starts Windows Explorer firefox Starts Firefox if installed iexplore Internet Explorer mobsync Starts Microsoft Synchronization Tool msimn Outlook Express mspaint Starts Microsoft Paint notepad Starts Notepad outlook Starts Microsoft Outlook powerpnt Starts Microsoft Powerpoint wab Starts Windows Address Book winchat Starts Microsoft Chat winword Starts ...