News tagged with early universe
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Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Cosmic Dance Helps Galaxies Lose Weight
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study published this week in the journal Nature offers an explanation for the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The research may settle an outstanding puzzle in unders ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Galaxy Zoo Hunters Help Astronomers Discover Rare 'Green Pea' Galaxies
A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the "Green Peas" with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Simulations Illuminate Universe's First Twin Stars (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The earliest stars in the universe formed not only as individuals, but sometimes also as twins, according to a paper published today in Science Express. By creating robust simulations of the ...
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Largest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed
An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies.
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Research Team Discover New Tidal Debris from Colliding Galaxies
Astronomers have discovered new tidal debris stripped away from colliding galaxies. The research will be being presented during a press conference at the 214th annual American Astronomical Society meeting ...
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Better Supernovae Measurements Aim To Improve Understanding of Dark Energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique for measuring the distances to supernovae more accurately than ever before has been developed by a team of scientists from Yale University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
May 22, 2009 |
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Star-Forming Backbone of a Massive Structure in the Early Universe Photographed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a special camera known as AzTEC developed by a research team led by Grant Wilson, astronomy professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an international research group has ...
May 20, 2009 |
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James Webb Space Telescope unfolds by animation (w/Video)
Although engineers, scientists and manufacturers are still in the process of building all of the instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they had to figure out long ago, how it ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way
(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb ...
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Most distant detection of water in the Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date. Dr John McKean of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) will be presenting the discovery at ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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A dust factory around a dead star
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, led by Loretta Dunne from the University of Nottingham, have found some very unusual stardust. In a paper to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Stars cheek by jowl in the early Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early Universe, some galaxies may have had stars packed together a hundred times more closely than in the present day, according to research by a University of Bonn team to be published ...
Feb 12, 2009 |
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New Data Suggests We Don’t Live in a Void, and Supports Dark Energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- An alternative proposal to dark energy in which the Earth sits near the center of a large void is undergoing scrutiny, and the results show that void models fit poorly with observed data. ...
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Dust around a primitive star sheds new light on universe's origins
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell-led team of astronomers has observed dust forming around a dying star in a nearby galaxy, giving a glimpse into the early universe and enlivening a debate about the origins of all ...
Jan 15, 2009 |
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