News tagged with galaxy cluster
Related topics: hubble space telescope , dark matter , galaxies , distant galaxy , early universe
Planck Mission: Space Probe Peers Into Dark Cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine watching the birth of the universe -- the Big Bang -- from the outside. What would you have seen?
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Bright galaxies like to stick together
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope have discovered that the brightest galaxies tend to be in the busiest parts of the Universe. This crucial piece of information ...
May 26, 2010 |
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A cluster and a sea of galaxies (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 315. As ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Einstein's theory fights off challengers (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new and independent studies have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test like never before. These results, made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, show Einstein's ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Scientists uncover influence of universe's large-scale structure on galaxy cluster growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team headed by researchers at RIKEN (Japan) and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics has uncovered details explaining the growth of galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally-bound ...
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Seeing is believing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whenever you look up at the stars you are looking back in time, as light from even our closest neighbour, Alpha Centauri, started its journey to Earth more than four years ago. It is a phenomenon ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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X-ray telescope to detect dark energy in space
It will be on board in 2012, when a Soyus-2 rocket carries an X-ray telescope into space to decode the nature of the universe's dark energy: an X-ray detector developed by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Mysterious Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Tracked Deeper into Universe (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Study validates general relativity on cosmic scale, existence of dark matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe - at least up to a distance ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Light, wind and fire: Beautiful image of a cosmic sculpture (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Alien invaders pack the Milky Way
(PhysOrg.com) -- Around a quarter of the globular star clusters in our Milky Way are invaders from other galaxies, new research from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) shows.
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Dark matter or background noise? Results intriguing but not conclusive
Physicists may have glimpsed a particle that is a leading candidate for mysterious dark matter but say conclusive evidence remains elusive.
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Galaxy Cluster Abell 3627: Two Tails to Tell
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission has been seen trailing behind a galaxy using the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Weak Lensing Gains Strength
(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab cosmologists were part of an international team that has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes
Noted for harbouring Eta Carinae -- one of the wildest and most massive stars in our galaxy -- the impressive Carina Nebula also houses a handful of massive clusters of young stars. The youngest of these stellar ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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