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Telescopes That Could See the Future

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 - 10:05:59 - Anuradha Menon

A pair of space telescopes to be launched later this month will help to answer some of the biggest questions in the Universe – such as how did we get...

Hubble's Hottest Science Finds

Friday, April 24th, 2009 - 12:04:09 - Anuradha Menon

In honor of the telescope's 19th birthday--April 24, 2009--NASA has released its list of the top 12 science discoveries made using Hubble pictures...

New Galaxy Formation Theory Proposed
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 - Sarah GIngichashvili
Astrophysicists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have formulated a novel theory that takes issue with the prevailing...

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Cosmologists 'See' the Cosmic Dawn

Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - 16:29:36 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists have used a computer simulation to predict what the very early Universe would have appeared like 500 million years after the Big Bang. The...

Wall Divides Cosmic Metropolis

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 - 12:09:22 - Anuradha Menon

A new study unveils NGC 604, the largest region of star formation in the nearby galaxy M33, in its first deep, high-resolution view in X-rays. This...

Supermassive Black Holes 'Not Guilty'

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 - 15:49:48 - Ehud Rattner

A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their...

The Universe in Gamma-Rays
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which was launched in June of last year, has begun its mission of exploring...