Louisiana's coastline is changing — and changing fast, as you can see in the above map which shows the coastal land lost between 1922 and...
Sunday, 31 August 2014
Friday, 29 August 2014
"Detecting Alien Planet Particles Smaller than a Human Hair" --New SETI Breakthrough
It may sound like science fiction, but astronomers have worked out a scheme that will allow them to detect and measure particles ten times...
Supernova's Giant Thermonuclear Explosion Reveals Rare Isotope
Astrophysicists obtained for the first time spectra of radiating cobalt registered at the supernova SN2014J, shown above, located 11 million...
Thursday, 28 August 2014
Vast Streams of Gravel Detected in Orion Molecular Cloud -- "A Long and Winding Road in Space Essential for Planet Formation"
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered that filaments of star-forming...
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
First Ever Observation of an Emerging Ancient Elliptical Galaxy --"Twice as Many Stars as Milky Way in a Region Only 6,000 Light Years Across"
A fully developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient gathering of ancient stars theorized to develop from the inside out, with a compact...
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Is Our 3-D Universe an Illusion? --"Everything Could Actually be Encoded in Tiny packets in Two Dimensions"
“We want to find out whether spacetime is a quantum system just like matter is,” said Craig Hogan, director of Fermilab’s Center for...
"When the Visible Universe was Less than One Microsecond Old" --Researchers Simulate Birth of the Cosmos
When the universe was less than one microsecond old and more than one trillion degrees, it transformed from a plasma of quarks and gluons...
Monday, 25 August 2014
Saturn's Titan --"The 'Rosetta Stone' of Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life?”
Luckily for researchers, there is a possible laboratory in our solar system to help us better understand the conditions on Earth before...
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Image of the Day: Neptune's Strange Moon Triton
Composite view showing Neptune on Triton's horizon. Neptune's south pole is to the left; clearly visible in the planets' southern...
Origins of Jupiter's Vast Magnetic Field Deciphered
Superlatives are the trademark of the planet Jupiter. The magnetic field at the top edge of the cloud surrounding the largest member...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Most Massive Known Galaxies Observed at Edge of the Universe (Today's Most Popular)
Four previously unknown galaxy clusters each potentially containing thousands of individual galaxies have been discovered some 10 billion...
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Puzzling Age of a Milky Way Globular Cluster Solved
Hubble observations of IC 4499 have helped to pinpoint the cluster's age: observations of this cluster from the 1990s suggested...
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
World's 1st Robotic Laser Probes Kepler-Mission's Alien Star Systems
“We’re using Robo-AO’s extreme efficiency to survey in exquisite detail all of the candidate exoplanet host stars that have been discovered...
Monday, 4 August 2014
Mars' Curiosity Reaches Mount Sharp Goal --Rising Three Miles Above Gale Crater Floor
"We're coming to our first taste of a geological unit that's part of the base of the mountain rather than the floor of the crater,"...
Milky Way's Motion Syncs New Planck Space Telescope Discovery with Big Bang Theory
Last year, the Planck Telescope revealed the most detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the...
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