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The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is the most advanced and complex radio telescope ever planned and developed. The installation features in excess of 20,000 radio antennas, spread out over 48 listening stations throughout Europe. This telescope is bound to begin scientific observations soon.
All the antennas that make... |
30 January 2012
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On Saturday, January 14, the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck spacecraft ran out of its absolutely-essential coolant. While this marks the end of HFI's operating life, it also marks the completion of the first survey of residual light from the Big Bang.
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17 January 2012
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the first all-sky survey scheduled to be carried out by the High Frequency Instrument (HFI), aboard the ESA Planck spacecraft, has just been completed. The study finally reveals a map of the residual one left behind by the Big Bang.
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16 January 2012
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A new survey of the near-infrared sky has revealed the oldest protocluster of galaxies in the Universe. The forming structure was discovered using the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, which conducts studies in near-infrared and optical wavelengths. According to astronomers, the cluster Hubble identified recently is not ... |
11 January 2012
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An extremely old, blob-shaped galaxy was recently demonstrated to be producing young, blue stars at a frantic pace, say astronomers with the science team. They used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope to image the object in visible-light and infrared wavelengths.
This particular galaxy &n... |
22 December 2011
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A decade-long investigation of the matter-antimatter imbalance that allowed everything in the Universe to form has finally concluded at the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). The team says that this was the most precise study of its kind ever conducted. What experts analyzed was why matter w... |
21 November 2011
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Yet another motherboard has made its appearance, in an unofficial capacity anyhow, namely the MSI Bang XPower II, which might just be the company's strongest platform yet, or at least very close to the top of the line.
The mere fact that it supports LGA 2011 CPUs is enough of a statement to the performance it... |
8 November 2011
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Engineers constructing the successor to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope say that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will also be able to detect exoplanets, in addition to being capable of seeing into the deepest corners of the Universe.
Since the US House of Representatives proposed cutting funds for the deve... |
26 October 2011
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Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe entered a period astronomers refer to as the dark ages. During this time, the host of phenomena and processes that unfolded to set the Cosmos on its current evolutionary path remain hidden from astronomers, and experts are dying to know what happened.
Investigators say that ... |
25 October 2011
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Italian scientists from the Sapienza University in Rome propose that life developed a lot sooner in the Universe than we give it credit for. Currently, most scientists believe that the earliest lifeforms appeared here on Earth, but the new idea proposes that proto-life already existed in the Cosmos.
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3 October 2011
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Using the amazing capabilities of the NASA Pleiades supercomputer, a team of American experts was recently able to develop the most comprehensive, complex and encompassing simulation of how the Universe evolved since the Big Bang.
Based on the Bolshoi simulation code, the new model was capable of producing a viab... |
30 September 2011
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Scientists with the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge announce the discovery of very old stars inside the earliest galaxies known to have formed in the Universe. The discovery seems to hint that the galaxies themselves are in reality a lot older than first estimated.
Team leader Dan Stark says that some of the ... |
26 September 2011
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Some of the most puzzling observations that cosmologists made over the past few decades could readily be explained by the influence gravitational waves have on the way we view the Universe from our vantage point. But experts need to identify these waves if they want to use this explanation.
If the waves indeed exi... |
22 September 2011
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In-depth studies of the Universe have revealed years ago that the overall rate of star formation peaked when the Cosmos was only a few billion years old. Since then, it has been in a steep decline, and a new study proposes that dark energy may somehow be responsible for this. When it comes to forming new stars &ndash... |
25 August 2011
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According to mathematicians, discovering new dimensions other than the three we already know may be possible through in-depth studies of neutron stars and black holes. At the same time, this type of study would also reveal whether string theory stands to scientific scrutiny or not.String theory is a unifying theory, ... |
25 August 2011
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According to investigators at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), it would appear that studying the 2d carbon compound graphene might help us get a better understanding of what went on during the Big Bang. This was the event that “exploded” the Universe into being. At the same time, the materi... |
13 August 2011
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Scientists with the Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) say that they managed to obtain the most accurate measurements on the weight of dark matter. These results refine existing figures down to an uncertainty level of on part per billion. The goal of scientists working with this instr... |
29 July 2011
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For years, astronomers have been proposing that the Milky Way and other galaxies in the Local Group are being drawn towards a dark mass called the Great Attractor. New data from telescopes in Chile are showing that that may not be the case at all.
This mass was proposed to exist in order for experts to be able to... |
23 July 2011
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Since the Big Bang exploded the Universe into being more than 13.75 billion years ago, large-scale cosmic structures have evolved following roughly the same patterns, regardless of whether they are made up of normal matter or dark matter. This is the groundbreaking conclusion of a new computer model analyzing the sit... |
21 July 2011
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In the near future, astronomers could become able to conduct in-depth studies of supermassive stars that may have existed at the fringes of the early Universe. These objects may have been the progenitors of what would become the first supermassive black holes ever to exist. Instruments such as the NASA James Webb Spa... |
18 July 2011
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University of Michigan (U-M) physics professor Michael Longo and his research team have recently determined that the early Universe may have not displayed mirror symmetry. For a long time, experts have believed that the Cosmos was symmetric from any point of view.
Astrophysicists compare this to a basketball &nda... |
9 July 2011
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A silicon wafer just four inches in diameter holds all the scientific instruments needed to obtain clear views of how the Universe looked like in its infancy. The device, which is still under development, will be 10,000 times more sensitive than current, state-of-the-art instruments. The goal of such a device would b... |
1 July 2011
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A group of astronomers announce the discovery of an extremely bright active galaxy in the distant Universe. The structure, which is believed to be a quasar, may very well be the most luminous object of its class to exist such a short time after the Big Bang.
According to the study team, the object may shed more l... |
30 June 2011
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope believe they may have just discovered the oldest galaxy in the Universe. It appears in an ultra-deep field image taken with the powerful observatory, and initial estimates place it at a distance of about 13.2 billion light-years. This means that the light it emits bega... |
6 May 2011
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Analysis of the basic properties of black holes appears to indicate that some of these dark behemoths may be capable of surviving the destruction of the Universe. If the Cosmos operates in cycles of Big Bangs and Big Crunches, then black holes can theoretically endure the latter events. In a new study, experts look a... |
3 May 2011
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New data would appear to indicate that the earliest stars ever to appear in the Universe were in fact spinning at tremendously high speeds. Astronomers now call these objects “spinstars,” and say that they at times reached spinning velocities of about a million miles per hour.
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28 April 2011
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Astronomers have recently made an incredible discovery, when they managed to discover a very old star in a nearby dwarf galaxy called Sculptor. The object is located about 290,000 light-years away from Earth, and its presence there holds several important implications for science. One of them is that the Milky Way de... |
26 April 2011
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An exciting new theory from researchers in the United States proposes that the earliest supermassive black holes to develop in the early Universe were produced the the collapse of immense, dark matter stars. The phenomenon may have been very widespread across the young Cosmos. The concept of a dark star is not new, b... |
26 April 2011
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Physicists have now proposed a new theory seeking to determine how the early Universe may have looked like, shortly after the Big Bang. They say that it may have taken on the appearance of a single line of pure energy, rather than that of a sphere or a bell.
The new view comes as a breath of fresh air for experts... |
23 April 2011
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Just 200 million years after the Big Bang, the Universe may have already seen the formation of the first elliptical galaxies. In a new study, astronomers propose that much more such galaxies existed in the early Cosmos than was previously estimated. Until recently, experts were convinced that the first stars appeared... |
18 April 2011
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The results of a new scientific study suggest that the earliest galaxies ever to develop within the Universe appeared about 200 million years after the Big Bang exploded everything into being. If this is true, then these findings are in direct violation of established cosmological models, which show that the earliest... |
14 April 2011
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For many years, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. This means that galaxies are flying away from each other, and the preferred explanation is that dark energy is driving this expansion. A new study proposes a new force instead, called antigravity.This force could be dr... |
14 April 2011
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Researchers suggest in a new study that the telltale signs showing us today that the Big Bang actually existed may disappear entirely within about 1 trillion years. Our most distant descendants will have a very tough time figuring out what happened in the early Universe. The Big Bang model is now the most widely-acce... |
14 April 2011
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The macroscale structure of the observable Universe may be in direct violation of the most widely accepted model the international scientific community has for explaining how everything came into being, the Big Bang. The theory holds that what we know as the entire Cosmos today was spawned by a single point of no dim... |
31 March 2011
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Investigators have recently taken a closer look at a background layer of subatomic particles, that was found some time ago to permeate the entire Universe. Similar to the cosmic microwave background (CMB), this collection of particles was also produced in the earliest moments of the Cosmos. This subatomic signature s... |
29 March 2011
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Investigators working at a particle detector based at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have recently published the conclusions of two new studies, which analyzes two different types of decay for a series of particles called “strange B” mesons. The data the team used for the researches were collected during... |
29 March 2011
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Analysis of the large-scale flow of galaxies, clusters and superclusters are setting the grounds for new scientific theories that may have been cataloged as “heresies” just a few years back. Researchers are shedding serious doubts on the currently-accepted astronomical model explaining the Universe. One t... |
28 March 2011
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In a bid to separate space and time from the unified theory in which they were tied together, an American physicist is proposing that the spacetime fabric everyone is talking about is only a mirage, a figment of scientists' imagination, and nothing more. At this point, spacetime is defined as a hypothetical fabr... |
24 March 2011
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A famous theoretical physicist in the United Kingdom argues that space and time were not something that appeared when the Big Bang spawned the Universe into being. In fact, they may be much older constructs that simply underlie this Cosmos as they did many other before it. University of Oxford physicist Roger Penrose... |
23 March 2011
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A future telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA) could help explain some of the most tightly-kept mysteries in the Universe, such as for example whether gravitational waves exist or not. But the instrument may also test for the existence of vanishing dimensions other than the known three. Many theoretical physic... |
23 March 2011
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Astronomers may have discovered a mystery the Universe has been hiding since the Big Bang. New studies demonstrate that the fine-structure constant (FSC), one of the most important measures in Cosmos, was not, and is not, constant throughout time and space. The FSC, which is also known as α, is a fundamental co... |
18 March 2011
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Over the past few years, more and more experts have begun wondering whether the Big Bang model is indeed the most efficient one at explaining how the Universe came to be. Data are beginning to pile up showing evidence to contrary, and increasing numbers of astronomers are starting to listen. This theory holds that th... |
17 March 2011
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A recent study has demonstrated that massive galaxies, structures larger even than the Milky Way is now, existed very early on in the history of the Universe, perhaps as little as 1.5 to 2 billion years after the Big Bang. According to the research, these galaxies may have been 5 to 10 times more massive than our own... |
11 March 2011
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It would appear that Micro-Star International wants to reboot its Cougar Point chipset-based collection of motherboards by turning the Big Bang Marshall, its arguably most powerful mainboard, into a sort of flagship.Users will no doubt have learned of the issues plaguing Intel's 6-Series Cougar Point chipset an... |
22 February 2011
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American investigators have just been granted approval to construct a telescope that will be able to peer back as much as 10 billion years into the history of the Universe, and determine how dark energy shaped it. The findings could help explain how the Cosmos is set up.There are numerous researchers who believe that... |
3 February 2011
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Investigators working in Europe, at the world's largest particle accelerator, say that they are zeroing in on the source of dark matter, the mysterious stuff believed to make up 23 percent of the mass of the Universe, but which is apparently impossible to detect.
Physicists have had a much better year than o... |
27 January 2011
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The most recent investigations conducted on the earliest days of the Cosmos have revealed that the Big Bang was followed by several hundred million years of darkness, in which absolutely no light was produced. The first stars and galaxies began developing after that period.Because of the total lack of light, those ea... |
14 January 2011
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In order to discover the oldest and most distant galaxies in the Universe, astronomers are using galaxies and clusters as massive gravitational lenses to boost telescopes' observing power. But doing so may actually harm the end result of the studies, a new report shows. According to the document, using this part... |
13 January 2011
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While surveying the night sky, a team of astronomers was able to image a narrow portion of a massive globular star cluster, which lies some 16,000 light-years away from Earth, in Omega Centauri. It is estimated that the stars in this structure are between 10 and 12 billion years old.An estimated 10 million stars can ... |
10 January 2011
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Astronomers have determined that the entire Universe is permeated by what could best be described as an ancient signature at a subatomic level, which may yield additional details about how everything came into being. Some of the particles in this signature apparently have the ability to exist in a large number of pla... |
5 January 2011
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