
Part Of Universe's Missing Matter Discovered By XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory
ESA's orbiting X-ray
observatory XMM-Newton has
been used by a team of
international astronomers to
uncover part of the missing
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Ultra-dense Galaxies Found In Early Universe
Astronomers looking at the
universe's distant past
found nine young, unusually
compact galaxies, each
weighing in at 200 billion
times the mass of the Sun.
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Oldest Known Celestial Objects Are Surprisingly Immature
Some of the oldest objects
in the Universe may still
have a long way to go,
according to a new study
using NASA's Chandra X-ray
Observatory. These new
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Stellar Birth In The Galactic Wilderness
A new image from NASA's
Galaxy Evolution Explorer
shows baby stars sprouting
in the backwoods of a galaxy
-- a relatively desolate
region of space more than
100,000 light-years from the
... > full story
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Gravity Wave 'Smoking Gun' Fizzles: Gravitational Radiation Can Be Produced More Than One Way
April 17, 2008 Gravitational radiation -- widely expected to provide "smoking gun" proof for a theory of the early universe known as "inflation" -- can be produced by another mechanism, according to physics ... > full story -
World's Newest And Fastest Survey Telescope Receives New Mirror
April 17, 2008 A 4.1-meter diameter primary mirror, a vital part of the world's newest and fastest survey telescope, VISTA has been delivered to its new mountaintop home at Cerro Paranal, ... > full story -
Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere; Omega Centauri Looks Radiant In Infrared
April 11, 2008 Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called Omega Centauri, this sparkling orb of stars is like a miniature galaxy. It is ... > full story -
Quasars Quash Star Formation In Active Galactic Nuclei
April 9, 2008 An ambitious study of active and inactive galaxies has given new insights into the complex interaction between super-massive black holes at the heart of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and star ... > full story -
Rare Quasar Discovered That Produces More X-rays Than Thought Possible
April 8, 2008 XMM-Newton has been surprised by a rare type of galaxy, from which it has detected a higher number of X-rays than thought possible. The observation gives new insight into the powerful processes ... > full story -
Astronomers View Distant Galaxies Evolving One Billion Years After The Big Bang
April 6, 2008 UK astronomers have produced the most sensitive infrared map of the distant Universe ever undertaken. Combining data over a period of three years, they have produced an image containing over 100,000 ... > full story -
Old Galaxies Stick Together In The Young Universe
April 4, 2008 Using the most sensitive images ever obtained with the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope, astronomers have found convincing evidence that galaxies which look old early in the history of the Universe ... > full story -
Graphene Gazing Gives Glimpse Of Foundations Of Universe
April 4, 2008 Researchers have used graphene to measure an important and mysterious fundamental constant -- and glimpse the foundations of the universe. The universe and life on this planet are intimately ... > full story -
Cosmologists Probe Mystery Of Dark Energy With South Pole Telescope
April 3, 2008 Something is pulling the universe apart. What is it, and where will it take us from here? Scientists are seeking answers to those questions with the newly-commissioned South Pole Telescope. Frigid ... > full story -
2,500 Researchers, 1 Large Hadron Collider, 1 New Snapshot Of The Universe
April 2, 2008 Deep in the bowels of the earth -- 100 meters below ground in Geneva, Switzerland -- lies a supermachine of 27 kilometers circumference that has been built to unlock the mysteries of the universe. ... > full story
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