Universe News
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The big news in astrophysics this year was the detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime, known as gravitational waves. Scientists want to enlist the help of citizen scientists in helping to spot more occurrences.
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A special detector is being developed under ultra-clean conditions (within a cleanroom). The detector will be sufficiently sensitive to detect the light from the beginning of the universe. This will inform cosmologists about time dating to the ‘Big Bang
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Manila -
Environmentalists have hit out at organisers of the Miss Universe beauty pageant in the Philippines, calling them "irresponsible" for letting contestants swim with endangered whale sharks.
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Scientists have discovered that the universe contains a mind-blowing, two trillion galaxies. The discovery could change our view of the cosmos and open up a vast unknown territory of scientific knowledge.
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It shines with the force of 300 trillion suns. Discovered by NASA's WISE spacecraft, it is the most luminous galaxy in the universe.
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World-renowned physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawking said that, Zayn Malik — who recently left the pop group One Direction — could still be a member of the band in another universe.
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A mysterious "hole in space" called a "supervoid" has baffled scientists since it was first found in 2004. Now a new theory is trying to explain its highly unusual features.
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New observations of supernovae have suggested that the universe may be expanding much slowly than has been thought up until now. This is a large change that could influence future theories about the end of the universe.
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Described as a "time machine," scientists have recreated the history of the universe from near its birth to the present day, using a stunning computer simulation.
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The particle-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Cern, Switzerland, will restart next week and one of its major projects will be to search for tiny black holes, which could be gateways to parallel universes and new dimensions.
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A new study suggests that the Big Bang wasn't the start of the universe. It postulates that, in fact, it has no beginning and no end.
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Pop singer-songwriter and dancer Mohombi chatted about his new single "Movin'" and its inception. He also discussed his album "Universe."
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Think Mars is the ultimate life-harboring planet in our solar system? Think again. Recent findings from NASA indicate there may be life on not one, but two of Jupiter’s moons.
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Dark matter, the substance that is thought to make up more than a quarter of the universe, remains a greater mystery. Scientists have now stated that earlier findings, seemingly discovering dark matter particles, are not correct.
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What is the Universe? Centuries of human thought have "taught" us what it is. We've created our own concept of what the Universe is, but could we be wrong?
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Scientists have discovered Methuselah, what is being called and "impossible star," which appears to be potentially older than the universe.
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A new, more advanced technique for measuring the ages of large numbers of stars like the sun has been proposed by astrophysicists.
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The famous theoretical astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, addressing a large audience at the California Institute of Technology on April 16, said that the Universe did not need a divine creator to bring it into being.
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For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. It was argued that if the earth were really round, then the people at the bottom would fall off.
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A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that Earth may have been hit by a gamma-ray burst, the strongest explosion in the universe, in the eighth century.
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In the region of Dorado constellation, 50 light years from Earth, researchers found Gliese 163c, orbiting the star Gliese 163, with potential structures and compositions scientists believe could possibly sustain life.
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The largest 3D map of the universe ever created pinpoints one-million galaxies and its creators hope it will help solve some of astronomy's greatest mysteries.
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On Wednesday, 4 July 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland, scientists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that they have found the elusive Higgs boson particles, sometimes referred to as the God particle.
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Indianapolis -
Are universes inside giant black holes? Is our entire universe located inside a wormhole? This is not science-fiction, but it could answer various cosmic mysteries that plague scientists across the globe (or universe?).
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As the universe persists in its expansion, cosmologists in the future will continue to understand less. In fact, according to one theory, the best time to learn about the cosmos was more than 13 billion years ago.
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On April 24, 1990, 8:33:51 am EST, the historic Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by Space Shuttle Discovery. The 2.4 metre (7.9 feet) telescope is now 22 years old and what better way to celebrate then to look back at its stunning images.
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New research in dwarf galaxies, satellites of our own, is now helping scientists better understand dark matter. Peering into the darkest depths of these neighboring systems have shown nothing, and that nothingness is what everyone is excited about.
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Heidelberg -
German astronomers have discovered a planetary system deemed a survivor of the very early universe. The ancient system is an astonishing 13 billion years old, and raises the question of how such early stars and planets might have formed.
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Burnaby -
A team of Canadian physicists have measured an antimatter atom for the first time. The research could prove to be important in understanding the Big Bang and the creation of the universe.
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Every day, physicists, astronomers and scientists discover something new about the universe we live – and beyond. What were some of the top out-of-this-world space stories of the year?
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Universe Image
NASA image show Christmas in outer space. NASA
Artist's impression of the ESA's Euclid space telescope scheduled for a 2020 launch European Space Agency - ESA Press
Large scale projection through the Illustris volume at z=0, centered on the most massive cluster, 15 Mpc/h deep. Shows dark matter density overlaid with the gas velocity field. Illustris Collaboration
With new planets being discovered constantly life could show up when we least expect it. Unmismoobjetivo
NASA image show Christmas in outer space. NASA
A slice of the Bolshoi supercomputer simulation of the universe, which is based on the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) cosmogeny that hypothesizes a cosmic web of dark matter underlying the large-scale universe, driving galaxy and galaxy cluster formation through gravitational effects on ordinary matter. Stefan Gottlober (AIP)
This composite image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope. NASA
Prevailing model of the origin and expansion of spacetime and all that it contains. NASA
NASA image show Christmas in outer space. NASA
The cast of SGU: Stargate Universe with Ming Na (2nd from the left) and Lou Diamond Phillips (1st on the right) Syfy
The first full-sky image of the universe, thanks to Europe's Planck telescope Courtesy ESA
Ming Na, David Blue, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Carlyle in SGU: Stargate Universe Syfy
The crew stranded at a Stargate in SGU Syfy
NASA artist's conception of a human mission to Mars (1989 painting by Les Bossinas of NASA Lewis Research Center). Original uploader was Geoffrey.landis at en.wikipedia
Searching through the starship Destiny Syfy
Lou Diamond Phillips as Colonel Telford in SGU: Stargate Universe Syfy
"These videos aren't just screensavers. They show us how the universe really works," concluded Oliver Hahn, KIPAC post-doctoral researcher, who is using this visualization tool to support his work. KIPAC
Internal view of the Stanford torus space station design. Artist's description: "The 1975 NASA Ames/Stanford University Summer Study worked out the broad engineering requirements for a toroidal shaped space colony design. This painting used the design, but I refused to fill the interior with the 'shopping mall gone mad' clutter of other drawings. Again the challenge of sustaining something like a closed ecosystem was a theme I wanted to emphasize. This design became known as the 'Stanford Torus' Don Davis
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