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VST Looks at the Leo Triplet -- And Beyond
July 27, 2011 — A huge image, from the new VLT Survey Telescope (VST) and its camera OmegaCAM at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory, shows a triplet of bright galaxies in the constellation of ... > full story -
Hubble Constant: A New Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
July 26, 2011 — Using a measurement of the clustering of the galaxies surveyed, plus other information derived from observations of the early universe, researchers have measured the Hubble constant with an ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Largest and Most Distant Reservoir of Water Yet
July 22, 2011 — Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. Looking from a distance of 30 billion trillion miles away into a quasar -- one of ... > full storyMore: -
Cosmological Evolution of Dark Matter Is Similar to That of Visible Matter
July 21, 2011 — Large cosmic structures made up of dark and normal matter evolve along the same lines -- this is one of the most important conclusions emerging from the latest computer ... > full story -
Movement of Black Holes Powers Quasars, the Universe's Brightest Lights
July 20, 2011 — Research finds that black holes' spin and lateral movement can power bright jets of light known as ... > full story -
Galaxy-Sized Twist in Time Pulls Violating Particles Back Into Line
July 14, 2011 — A physicist in the UK has produced a galaxy-sized solution that explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum of why different ... > full story -
What Activates a Supermassive Black Hole? Galaxy Collisions Not the Culprits, Even in the Jam-Packed Early Universe
July 13, 2011 — A new study combining data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory has turned up a surprise. Most of the huge ... > full story -
Scientists Model Physics of a Key Dark-Energy Probe: Simulations Improve Characterization of Cosmology’s 'Standard Ruler’
July 12, 2011 — Researchers are leveraging powerful supercomputers to investigate one of the key observational probes of "dark energy." The project focuses on simulations created on Ohio Supercomputer Center systems ... > full story -
Physicists Discover New Way to Produce Antimatter-Containing Atom
July 11, 2011 — Physicists report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that could help answer what happened to antimatter in the universe, why nature favored ... > full story -
Stardust in Our Backyard Provides New Clues to Galaxy Evolution
July 7, 2011 — New data from Herschel Space Observatory reveal surprisingly large amounts of cold dust in the remnant of the famous supernova SN1987A, which astronomers observed 24 years ago in the Large Magellanic ... > full storyMore:
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