Any first-grader will tell you that matter can bend and twist light. This is obvious in anything from mirrors to space telescopes, and from lasers to polarizing 3D glasses. But the opposite interaction has almost never been observed, in the sense that experts rarely saw light influence matter in the same way. Now, in... |
18 March 2010
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Merely two days ago, the citizens in the northern parts of Norway could see a very peculiar, spiral-like formation glowing on the night sky. Viewed from a lot of angles, it immediately began to raise suspicions that it was a UFO, and many conspiracy theorists began to hypothesize as to its origins and purpose there. ... |
11 December 2009
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The northern constellation of Coma Berenices is home to one of the closest and brightest galaxy clusters astronomers are familiar with, namely the Abell 1656, also known as the Coma Galaxy Cluster (CGC). This formation holds up to 1,000 galaxies, most of them elliptical. However, one of them, which happens to be a sp... |
6 February 2009
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The way galaxies transform from the pinwheel-shaped spirals – that tend to be blue or reddish – to the egg-shaped ellipticals was unknown to astronomers up until Hubble decided to send back a new set of pictures, detailing extremely rare red spiral galaxies, which experts now think may be the missing link... |
22 December 2008
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