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Are Stellar Explosions Created Equal? Scientists Recheck a Standard Model for Supernovae on Which Cosmic Distance Measurement Is Based
August 22, 2011 A new analysis of Type Ia supernova, used to measure cosmic distance, suggests many of them develop from similar initial ... > full story -
Cosmic Eye Emerges from Exhaustive Tests in UK Space Lab
August 19, 2011 A pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope – the gigantic successor to the Hubble Telescope – has just completed cryogenic testing. This testing subjected the ... > full story -
Giant Space Blob Glows from Within: Primordial Cloud of Hydrogen Is Centrally Powered
August 17, 2011 Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have shed light on the power source of a rare vast cloud of glowing gas in the early universe. The observations show for the ... > full story -
First Data from Daya Bay: Closing in on a Neutrino Mystery
August 15, 2011 The international Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment in southern China has just begun collecting data on the elusive final measurement needed before the masses of the different kinds of neutrinos ... > full storyMore: -
Maternal IV Fluids Linked to Newborns' Weight Loss
August 14, 2011 A newborn baby's weight loss is often used to determine how well a baby is breastfeeding. However, many women receive IV fluids during labor, and new research shows that some of a newborn's initial ... > full story -
Supernovae Parents Found: Clear Signatures of Gas Outflows from Stellar Ancestors
August 11, 2011 Observations of Type Ia supernovae has led to the discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate and the notion of dark energy. However, astronomers do not know for certain how the ... > full story -
Is Our Universe Inside a Bubble? First Observational Test of the 'Multiverse'
August 3, 2011 The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles -- making up the "multiverse" -- is, for the first time, being tested ... > full story -
Oxygen Molecules Found in Nearby Star-Forming Cloud
August 1, 2011 The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory has found molecules of oxygen in a nearby star-forming cloud. This is the first undisputed detection of oxygen molecules in space. It concludes ... > full storyMore: -
Getting Ready for ALMA’s First Scientific Observations
July 28, 2011 The first European antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached new heights, having been transported to the observatory’s Array Operations Site (AOS) on 27 ... > full story -
Fundamental Matter-Antimatter Symmetry Confirmed
July 27, 2011 An international collaboration has set a new value for the antiproton mass relative to the electron with unprecedented ... > full storyMore:
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