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Most precise test yet of Einstein's gravitational redshift

(PhysOrg.com) -- While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly - a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity - a new experiment in ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Clearing the cosmic fog: The most distant galaxy ever measured (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analysing the very faint glow of the galaxy they ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Astronomers explore 'last blank space' on map of the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most distant object ever discovered is described in this week's edition of the science journal Nature. Two international teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 71

Astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to the limit of its technical ability, an international collaboration of astronomers have found what is likely to be the most distant and ancient galaxy ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Strange new 'species' of ultra-red galaxy discovered

In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 365 | with audio podcast

Ghosts of the future: First giant structures of the universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

First galaxies were born much earlier than expected (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the amplifying power of a cosmic gravitational lens, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. This result sheds new light ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Light from galaxy clusters confirms theory of relativity

All observations in astronomy are based on light emitted from stars and galaxies and, according to the general theory of relativity, the light will be affected by gravity. At the same time all interpretations ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Stellar Explosion Displays Massive Carbon Footprint

(PhysOrg.com) -- While humans are still struggling to get rid of unwanted carbon it appears that the heavens are really rather good at it. New research by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick has discovered that a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2