Items tagged with universe

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NASA Reveals Mercury's Hidden Territory Thursday, October 30th, 2008 - 18:14:15 - Anuradha Menon A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the... read more

View the Birth of a Galaxy Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 - 16:55:34 - Anuradha Menon A bit of serendipity has given astronomers a surprise view of a never-before-observed event in the birth of a galaxy. University of Florida and... read more

Monster Tag Team Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 - 09:59:59 - Ehud Rattner Astronomers taking a second look at a distant galaxy have found it is actually a pair of colliding galaxies, each harboring a supermassive black hole... read more

Mysterious Object Disappears from Space Friday, October 10th, 2008 - 14:23:18 - Anuradha Menon Humans have been star-gazing for thousands of years but the surprises keep coming. Recently, members of the Supernova Cosmology Project, one of the... read more

Massive Planet-Sized Object Found Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 18:39:44 - Anuradha Menon COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that... read more

NASA Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 12:31:55 - Anuradha Menon Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect... read more

Hubble to be Installed with Unique Camera Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - 14:53:16 - Anuradha Menon Wide Field Camera 3, a new camera for the Hubble Space Telescope, to be installed by astronauts during the upcoming space shuttle servicing mission... read more

Dark Energy: Is It Merely An Illusion? Monday, September 29th, 2008 - 16:04:05 - Ehud Rattner Dark energy is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, but it may be nothing more than an illusion, according physicists at... read more

BOSS to Measure Dark Energy With Quasars Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - 18:45:32 - Anuradha Menon The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) uses a 2.5-meter telescope with a wider field of view than any other large telescope, located on a mountaintop in... read more

An Accurate Speedometer For Astronomy Sunday, September 14th, 2008 - 09:50:18 - Ehud Rattner Events on a cosmic scale are often barely discernable on Earth. This explains why astronomers are currently not able to prove directly that the... read more

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