Items tagged with universe

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Galactic Dust Bunnies Contain Carbon Friday, March 13th, 2009 - 18:21:07 - Anuradha Menon Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center... read more

Launch Mishap Ends OCO Mission Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 - 12:06:25 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Feb. 24 from California's Vandenberg Air Force... read more

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... read more

There Might Have Been Life on Mars Friday, January 16th, 2009 - 10:06:30 - Anuradha Menon Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has... read more

Watch a Star Explode in 3D Friday, January 9th, 2009 - 18:14:20 - Anuradha Menon Using views captured by several orbiting and ground-based telescopes, an MIT researcher and her colleagues have produced the first fully... read more

Asymmetry in the Early Universe Friday, December 19th, 2008 - 17:29:32 - Anuradha Menon The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of what came before. Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology... read more

New Detector Will Aid Search For Dark Matter Friday, December 12th, 2008 - 14:22:08 - Anuradha Menon Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious "dark matter" believed to dominate the universe's... read more

Turbulent Star-Forming Region Captured Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 - 10:06:17 - Anuradha Menon A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of... read more

Students Discover Unique Planet Saturday, December 6th, 2008 - 16:33:19 - Anuradha Menon Three undergraduate students, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered an extrasolar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned... read more

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