The mystery of the space Dalmatian has been solved. The mysterious dark spots on Saturn's moon Iapetus are caused by the Sun. New images delivered by the Cassini spacecraft show the stains are located mainly on the sunward-facing slopes of craters and mountains, pointing to a runaway energy splotching areas of t... |
9 October 2007
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If you think a black hole is the most energetic event in the Universe, you might want to think again, after you see the surprising X-ray images of the galaxy cluster crashing into one another, images captured by the orbiting X-ray telescopes XXM-Newton and Chandra.The Bullet Cluster is a supermassive cluster resulti... |
18 July 2007
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The Universe is a mysterious place that we have only begun to study and it seems that every time scientists answer one cosmological question, a few more arise, making the complete understanding of the space we live in a distant possibility.Dark energy is one of the mysteries, as it is not only elusive, being theorize... |
14 July 2007
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NASA created a new office, the Einstein Probes Office, in Greenbelt, Maryland, hosted by the Goddard Space Flight Center, which will study some of the strange phenomena of the Universe, ranging from black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation to the elusive dark energy.It will host many science missions t... |
9 July 2007
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A mysterious dark galaxy continues to puzzle astronomers and the latest pictures taken by Hubble failed to shed some light on the mystery. This galaxy raised many questions about how it formed and its evolutionary path over the history of the universe.About 300,000 years after the Big Bang, atoms of hydrogen and hel... |
21 June 2007
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Astronomers were able to identify for the first time a dark object that seems to be a double black hole located around 16,000 light-years away from our solar system, using a new technique called cosmic triangulation.In trigonometry and elementary geometry, triangulation is the process of finding coordinates and dist... |
31 May 2007
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We, people, depend on light. Over 80 % of the information we get is visual. That's why during the night we employ artificial light when we do not sleep, in order to prolong our activity. The dark is associated by human beings with fear, uncertainty and even dread. It's a legacy from the monkey stage: as diu... |
4 May 2007
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Perfect Dark Zero is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game console. It was released as a launch title in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. With respect to storyline, Perfect Dark Zero is a prequel to the successful Nintendo 64 ... |
5 April 2007
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At the center of the Milky Way galaxy, about 26,000 light years away, there is a supermassive black hole estimated to have a mass equal to about 4 million suns.A few bright stars are known to orbit very close to it, and WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) may concentrate near this black hole. These particle... |
4 April 2007
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The quickening pace of our universe's expansion may be driven by a mysterious force called dark energy.Astronomers were astonished to discover in 1998 that the expansion of the universe is happening at an ever-increasing rate. The mysterious repulsive force responsible for this was dubbed dark energy, though sc... |
3 April 2007
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In the fantasy world of Enclave the people of Light and Darkness are divided by a bottomless rift that split the earth many millennia ago. The lands of light are prosperous and rich, an Enclave of truth and order, surrounded by the twisted and barren lands of the dark, war ravaged plains known as the Outlands. Over t... |
5 March 2007
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