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Visual Assistance for Cosmic Blind Spots
Information field theory
enables astronomers, medical
practitioners and geologists
to look into places where
their measuring instruments
are blind. ... > full story
Spiral Galaxies: Exploring the Baffling Boxy Bulge
Just as many people are
surprised to find themselves
packing on unexplained
weight around the middle,
astronomers find the
evolution of bulges in the
... > full story
Rapid Star Formation Spotted in 'Stellar Nurseries' of Infant Galaxies
The Universe's infant
galaxies enjoyed rapid
growth spurts forming stars
like our Sun at a rate of up
to 50 stars a year,
... > full story
'Dropouts' Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies
Astronomers, conducting the
broadest survey to date of
galaxies from about 800
million years after the Big
Bang, have found 22 early
galaxies and confirmed the
age of one by its
... > full story
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'Doomsday' 2012 Prediction Explained: Mayan Calendar Was Cyclical
November 14, 2009 — Contrary to what the latest Hollywood blockbuster movie would suggest, the world will NOT end on Dec. 21, 2012, according to astronomers. The Mayan calendar was designed to be cyclical, so the fact ... > full story -
New Experiment Could Reveal Make-Up of the Universe
November 13, 2009 — Scientists in England are constructing highly sensitive detectors as part of an international project to understand the elements that make up the ... > full story -
Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
November 4, 2009 — Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the most ... > full story -
Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal
November 3, 2009 — A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled. These measurements put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support ... > full story -
Blast From The Past: Most Distant Stellar Object Gives Clues About Early Universe
October 29, 2009 — Astronomers studied the most distant object yet seen in the Universe, a giant stellar blast from more than 13 billion years ago, and learned tantalizing facts about the blast itself and the ... > full story -
Gamma-Ray Photon Race Ends In Dead Heat; Einstein Wins This Round
October 28, 2009 — A pair of gamma-ray photons -- one possessed of a million times the energy of the other -- arrived at virtually the same instant at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, after a ... > full story -
World's Fastest Supercomputer Models Origins Of The Unseen Universe
October 27, 2009 — A new "Roadrunner Universe" model requires a petascale computer because, like the universe, it's mind-bendingly large. The model's basic unit is a particle with a mass of approximately one billion ... > full story -
Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record
October 23, 2009 — The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light ... > full story -
Is Unknown Force In Universe Acting On Dark Matter?
October 23, 2009 — Astronomers have found an unexpected link between mysterious 'dark matter' and the visible stars and gas in galaxies that could revolutionize our current understanding of gravity. The finding ... > full story -
Milky Way's Tiny But Tough Galactic Neighbor
October 14, 2009 — A stunning new image reveals one of our nearest galactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, also known as NGC 6822. The galaxy contains regions of rich star formation and curious nebulae, such as the ... > full story
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