News tagged with cosmic dawn
From Earth's water to cosmic dawn: New tools unveiling astronomical mysteries
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new and powerful research tools are helping astronomers gain key insights needed to transform our understanding of important processes across the breadth of astrophysics. The Atacama Large ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Cosmologists 'see' the cosmic dawn
(PhysOrg.com) -- The images, produced by scientists at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, show the "Cosmic Dawn" - the formation of the first big galaxies in the Universe.
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SKA super telescope to be built in Australia, South Africa (Update 2)
A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa.
May 25, 2012 |
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Astronomers determine color of the Milky Way Galaxy
A team of astronomers in Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences announced today the most accurate determination yet of the color of the (aptly named) Milky Way Galaxy: "a very pure white, almost ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Spitzer and Hubble telescopes find rare galaxy at dawn of time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-shaped galaxy, ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Dawn spacecraft spirals down to lowest orbit
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Swift observatory catches asteroid flyby (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- As asteroid 2005 YU55 swept past Earth in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, telescopes aboard NASA's Swift satellite joined professional and amateur astronomers around the globe in monitoring ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2011 |
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California physicist shares 2011 Nobel Prize
Saul Perlmutter won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, but it wasn't until the California scientist was awakened by a telephone call from a reporter in Sweden that he learned of the distinction. ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Most complex ground-based observatory - ALMA - opens its eyes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Behind the scenes at hip and hard-charging YouTube, Google
Clearly, this isn't the typical American workplace. Just inside the sleek glass doors of YouTube's corporate headquarters is a rock climbing wall - "for Googlers only." Straight ahead, five guys in T-shirts and jeans cluster ...
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Eyes in the sky
Dense veils of cloud over Venus, rocky barren landscapes of frozen ice on Saturn's moon Titan, white patches in the red sand of Mars – these are images of completely alien worlds. Worlds which humans ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 02, 2011 |
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Dawn exceeds wildest expectations as first ever spacecraft to orbit a protoplanet - Vesta
NASA’s super exciting Dawn mission to the Asteroid Belt marked a major milestone in human history by becoming the first ever spacecraft from Planet Earth to achieve orbit around a Protoplanet – Vesta ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2011 |
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