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Spitzer Goes to the Olympics: Art Professor to Show Space Telescope-Inspired Work at Winter Olympics Digital Art Exhibition
February 10, 2010 — Artwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making an appearance at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. No, it's not battling other telescopes for the "gold," but ... > full story -
Where Did Today's Spiral Galaxies Come From?
February 4, 2010 — Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a demographic census of galaxy types and shapes from a time before the Earth and the sun existed, to the present day. The ... > full story -
Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar
February 3, 2010 — Astronomers have found the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies. Binary quasars, like other quasars, are thought to be the product of galaxy mergers. ... > full story -
Reaching for the Stars to Create Music of the Universe
January 29, 2010 — While a supernova can be seen, it can't be heard, as sound waves cannot travel through space. But what if the light waves emitted by the exploding star and other cosmological phenomena could be ... > full story -
Universe Is 30 Times More Run Down Than Thought, Astronomers Find
January 26, 2010 — Cars run out of petrol, stars run out of fuel and galaxies collapse into black holes. As they do, the universe and everything in it is gradually running down. But how run down is it? Researchers from ... > full story -
Spectacular X-Ray Tails Surprise Astronomers
January 22, 2010 — Astronomer were surprised to find two distinct "tails" found on a long tail of gas that is believed to be forming stars where few stars have been formed before. What is also unusual is the gas tail, ... > full story -
Cosmology: Weak Gravitational Lensing Improves Measurements of Distant Galaxies
January 19, 2010 — A cosmologist has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, improving the reliability of mass measurements of much ... > full story -
Chemical Composition of Red Giant Star With More Carbon Than Oxygen in Its Atmosphere
January 14, 2010 — Researchers have conducted the most complete analysis of the chemical composition and evolutionary state of a spectral type R carbon star. The presence of carbon is essential for the possible ... > full story -
How Galaxies Form: New Research Resolves Conflict in Theory
January 13, 2010 — The cold dark matter theory has been used for more than 20 years to explain how the smooth universe from the big bang evolved into the galaxy-rich cosmos we see today. But there was a problem: the ... > full story -
Across the Multiverse: Physicist Considers the Big Picture
January 12, 2010 — Is there anybody out there? In one physicist's case, the question refers not to whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, but whether it exists in other universes outside of our ... > full story
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