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Stardust 5 to 7 Billion Years Old Found in a Meteorite in Australia Source:  NASA Meteorite  Stardust Material That's Older than the Sun This is an extraordinary scientific discovery just announced by a team of astronomers led by University of Chicago Professor Dr. Philipp Heck. In a meteorite that fell from space in Australia 50 years ago, there is awesome stardust dating back 5 to 7 billion years.  This stardust predates the Sun. Heck and his team analyzed the contents of the meteorite.  They found it to be the oldest, solid material ever found on Earth.  Their work has just been published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. What This Discovery Opens Innovative Views On The scientists say this stardust will tell us how parent stars were formed in our galaxy. It will tell us about the origins of the oxygen that we breathe and provide the opportunity to trace materials back before the creation of the Sun. The stardust ...

World's Fastest Supercomputer Source:  Argonne National Laboratory US Energy Dept.'s Aurora Exascale Computer at Argonne National Laboratory The US Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory along with Intel and Cray are developing a $500 million supercomputer that will be the fastest in the US. It's the nation's first exascale computer, capable of doing one quintillion operations in a second, or 1 billion-billion operations per second.  The potential uses of this computer, designed for the next generation of artificial intelligence, are many including solving some of the world's most complex and important scientific challenges.  For a great news blog, go to Important Innovations Collection: World's Fastest Super Computer : US Department of Energy's Aurora Source:  Argonne National Lab  One Billion-Billion Operations Per Second At the US Department o...