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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: -
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
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