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Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova
April 4, 2013 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, ... > full story -
Green Pea Galaxies Could Help Astronomers Understand Early Universe
April 3, 2013 The rare Green Pea galaxies discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization, a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early ... > full story -
Search for Dark Matter: Experiment Measures Antimatter Excess in Cosmic Ray Flux
April 3, 2013 The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. They report the observation of an excess of positrons in the ... > full storyMore: -
New Insights on How Spiral Galaxies Get Their Arms
April 2, 2013 Spiral galaxies are some of the most beautiful and photogenic residents of the universe. Our own Milky Way is a spiral. Our solar system and Earth reside somewhere near one of its filamentous arms. ... > full story -
NASA Provides a Super-Speed Look at Webb Telescope Progress
March 27, 2013 NASA released a new sped-up, 32-second video that shows engineers working on some of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight components to integrate them together to ensure they will work perfectly ... > full story -
Young, Hot and Blue: Stars in the Cluster NGC 2547
March 27, 2013 The Universe is an old neighborhood -- roughly 13.8 billion years old. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is also ancient -- some of its stars are more than 13 billion years old (eso0425). Nevertheless, ... > full story -
Measuring the Magnetism of Antimatter: Antiprotons Measured More Accurately Than Ever Before
March 25, 2013 In a breakthrough that could one day yield important clues about the nature of matter itself, scientists have succeeded in measuring the magnetic charge of single particles of matter and antimatter ... > full story -
Hubble Digs Up Galactic Glow Worm
March 24, 2013 The image of a charming and bright galaxy, known as IRAS 23436+5257, was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It is located in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, which is named ... > full story -
'Sideline Quasars' Helped to Stifle Early Galaxy Formation
March 21, 2013 Astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say "sideline quasars" likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, ... > full story -
Novel Insights Into the Evolution of Protein Networks
March 21, 2013 System-wide networks of proteins are indispensable for organisms. Function and evolution of these networks are among the most fascinating research questions in biology. Researchers have reconstructed ... > full story
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