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Cosmic Lighthouses: Astrophysicists Explain Differences In Brightness Of Supernova Explosions
February 10, 2007 — Supernovae stand out in the sky like cosmic lighthouses. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and at the National Astronomical Institute of Italy have now found a way to use these ... > full story -
Study Shows Moon In New Light
February 6, 2007 — Light has been shed on the dark parts of the Moon with experiments by University of Edinburgh researchers simulating billions of years of lunar ... > full story -
Gravitational Wave Background
January 30, 2007 — In the standard model of cosmology, the early universe underwent a period of fantastic growth. This inflationary phase, after only a trillionth of a second, concluded with a violent conversion of ... > full story -
Endless Universe Made Possible By New Model
January 30, 2007 — A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of ... > full story -
Evidence Of Ancient Galactic Collision Found
January 28, 2007 — Astronomers surveying the nearby Andromeda galaxy have discovered an association of stars in its outskirts, which they believe to be part of a separate galaxy that merged with Andromeda about 700 ... > full story -
Dark Energy May Be Vacuum
January 16, 2007 — Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have brought us one step closer to understanding what the universe is made of. The new data shows that ... > full story -
SIM PlanetQuest To Predict Date Of Cosmic Collision
January 11, 2007 — Scientists plan to pin down the date of a galactic collision billions of years in our future by first reaching back to the Big Bang, a feat that will be made possible by the extreme precision of ... > full story -
New Study Sheds Light On 'Dark States' In DNA
January 9, 2007 — Chemists at Ohio State University have probed an unusual high-energy state produced in single nucleotides -- the building blocks of DNA and RNA -- when they absorb ultraviolet (UV) light. This is ... > full story -
Hubble Maps The Cosmic Web Of 'Clumpy' Dark Matter In 3-D
January 7, 2007 — An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created a three-dimensional map that provides the first direct look at the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the ... > full story -
The Universe's Dark Side: New Way To Form Black Hole Uncovered
December 21, 2006 — Nature has again thrown astronomers for a loop. Just when they thought they understood how gamma-ray bursts formed, they have uncovered what appears to be evidence for a new kind of cosmic explosion. ... > full story
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