• Astronomical fireworks: On the origins of Type Ia supernova

    Updated: 2012-02-28 14:10:02
    (PhysOrg.com) -- A little luck and a lot of hard work can really light up the sky.

  • Pump up the galaxy

    Updated: 2012-02-28 14:00:20
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Q BA : The Science of Science Fiction Pump up the galaxy This is a galaxy Yup . It is Click to galactinate . This is the dinky Antlia Dwarf Galaxy located in the southern constellation of Antlia , the pump technically called a dwarf elliptical . It’s so faint and sparse that it wasn’t discovered until 1985 and confirmed as being a galaxy in 1997 even though it’s only 4 million light years from Earth not terribly farther than the Andromeda Galaxy , which is so big it’s visible to the naked eye Antlia may be a member of the Local Group , a loose collection of a few dozen mostly

  • Fab team scales up production of dark matter detectors

    Updated: 2012-02-28 12:09:15
    It's one thing to design and build a brand-new piece of technology, to test it and tune it until it works just right.

  • Predicting the next major earthquake

    Updated: 2012-02-28 11:16:31
    An in-depth interview with David Schwartz of the US Geological Survey

  • Rare Earth Element Detected for the First Time in 12-Billion-Year-Old Stars in Milky Way's Halo

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:55:39
    A new MIT study supports the theory that tellurium, along with even heavier elements in the periodic table, likely originated from a very rare type of supernova during a rapid process of nuclear fusion. Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the...

  • The "Dark Galaxies" Orbiting the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:30:00
    The outer edges of the Milky Way's appear to be orbited by innumerable invisible galaxies, one of which appears to be crashing into our own. In 2005 astronomers discovered the first evidence of mysterious dark galaxies with no starlight -...

  • Webcast: Combining science disciplines for modern cancer treatment

    Updated: 2012-02-27 11:51:53
    A webcast of the public lecture “Treating cancer in the XXI century: biology, physics and genomics,” will be available at webcast.cern.ch today at 12:30 p.m. EST.

  • Understanding Neutrinos

    Updated: 2012-02-27 00:00:00
    School: 3 Sep 2012 - 7 Sep 2012, Prague, Czech Republic. Organized by NPI Rez, IPNP Charles University in Prague, IEAP Czech Technical University in Prague.

  • What the World Is Made Of

    Updated: 2012-02-26 20:17:28
    I know you’re all following the Minute Physics videos (that we talked about here), but just in case my knowledge is somehow fallible you really should start following them. After taking care of why stones are round, and why there is no pink light, Henry Reich is now explaining the fundamental nature of our everyday [...]

  • Image of the Day: Gigantic Cosmic Bubbles

    Updated: 2012-02-26 18:05:18
    This image shows central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631 as seen edge-on from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data (shown in blue and purple) provide the first unambiguous evidence for a halo of...

  • Weekend Feature: "Coming of Age in the Young Universe" --Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2012-02-25 16:40:28
    This gorgeous island universe just begs the question: "are we alone?" With an estimated 200 billion galaxies in the known Universe, we think not. Well, perhaps in the Milky Way. NGC 7331, 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation...

  • Episode 13 The speed of light Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-25 03:03:57
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  • The week in pictures February 18–24, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-25 03:03:56
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  • The week in pictures February 18–24, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-25 03:03:55
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  • Researchers say galaxy may swarm with nomad planets Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-25 03:03:54
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  • Researchers say galaxy may swarm with nomad planets Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-25 03:03:52
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  • Study suggests Earth-like planets could be very different from Earth Dave's Universe Astronomy.com O

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  • Friday Piano Solo

    Updated: 2012-02-24 18:34:50
    Keith Emerson has been doing some interesting work on wave mechanics, Fourier transforms, and temporal structure. Here are some of his findings. Not exactly what you see at the Grammy’s these days. (Not that it was back in 1974, either.)

  • Dot Con 2012!

    Updated: 2012-02-24 18:25:44
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Satellite tumblr A boy and his dog Dot Con 2012 Dot Con 2012 starts today Yay Oh drat I hear you thinking . Another con I can’t go to Well , I have some good news : you can go to this one , because it’s online So unless someone printed out this blog post and handed it to you on a piece of paper , Dot Con 2012 is something you can do . And I’m a part of it Dot Con is a celebration of nerdy things , and we’ve got a fun lineup of nerdy stuff planned for the : weekend My pal Josh Cagan will be talking with a bunch of Hollywood types who will regale us with stories of being a geek

  • Mars rules the night Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-24 16:13:24
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  • The 2012 Winter Star Party is underway Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Medi

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  • The 2012 Winter Star Party is underway Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Medi

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  • The Josephson Effect 50 years on

    Updated: 2012-02-24 00:00:00
    Conference: 23 Jun 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Organized by James Stirling, John Clarke, and Judith Driscoll.

  • Asteroid named for Mark Kelly and Gabrielle Giffords Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community

    Updated: 2012-02-23 22:30:30
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  • Asteroid named for Mark Kelly and Gabrielle Giffords Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community

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  • The Omicron Velorum Cluster spiral galaxy NGC 2784, and spiral galaxy NGC 2787 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-23 22:30:26
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  • The Omicron Velorum Cluster spiral galaxy NGC 2784, and spiral galaxy NGC 2787 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-23 22:30:23
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  • World’s best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits

    Updated: 2012-02-23 20:00:03
    Today, scientists from the CDF collaboration have unveiled the world's most precise measurement of the W boson mass, based on data gathered at the Tevatron accelerator. The precision of this measurement surpasses all previous measurements combined and restricts the space in which the Higgs particle should reside according to the Standard Model, the theoretical framework that describes all known subatomic particles and forces.

  • Faster-than-light neutrinos explained?

    Updated: 2012-02-23 18:54:39
    Albert Einstein's law of special relativity might shrug off the challenge of faster-than-light neutrinos after all. Scientists in the OPERA collaboration announced today that they have found two possible causes for the surprising results they presented in September 2011, in which neutrinos seemed to beat Einstein's cosmic speed limit.

  • Atomic Fog Shrouded Early 'Dark Age' of the Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-23 15:59:10
    The discovery of a small but distant galaxy 12.8 billion light years from Earth in 2011 provided important clues about the earliest years of the universe's life. By measuring the age of the galaxy's stars using gravitational lensing, astronomers in...

  • The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-23 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 12 Jun 2012 - 17 Jun 2012, Cheltenham, United Kingdom.

  • AIMCAL 2012 Technical Conferences

    Updated: 2012-02-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 11 Jun 2012 - 15 Jun 2012, Prague, Czech Republic. Organized by AIMCAL - The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators.

  • Unknown X-Ray Source at Andromeda's Center

    Updated: 2012-02-22 16:27:12
    This Chandra X-ray image above shows the central portion of the Andromeda Galaxy. The blue dot in the center of the image is an unusually "cool" million degree X-ray source of unknown nature; above this cool source is a source...

  • Comment of the Day: 'NASA Discovers a Water World --A 'New Species' "Unlike Any Planet We Know Of'

    Updated: 2012-02-22 16:00:00
    "Gas giants, terrestrial planets, and now superfluid worlds...intelligent alien life would most certainly be completely different then us. This is why it's proving so difficult for us to detect them. They're so radically different from us not only from a...

  • EcoAlert: Plankton-Powered Ocean Eddy is 150 Kilometers Wide

    Updated: 2012-02-22 15:00:00
    NASA's Terra satellite spotted a massive ocean eddy last December that had spun off from the Agulhas current. which flows along the south-eastern coast of Africa and around the tip of South Africa.These ocean whirlwinds draw nutrients up from the... </a

  • DICE2012 Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics

    Updated: 2012-02-22 00:00:00
    Conference: 17 Sep 2012 - 21 Sep 2012, Castiglioncello , Tuscany, Italy. Organized by H-T Elze, L Diosi, L Fronzoni, J Halliwell, E Prati, G Vitiello.

  • String Theory Skeptics and Multiverse Mania

    Updated: 2012-02-21 22:08:12
    My endless rants here about the hot field of multiverse studies are mainly motivated by concern about the effect this is having on particle theory. Multiverse scenarios all too often function as an excuse for not admitting that string theory/extra-dimensional … Continue reading →

  • Moon bites multicolor Sun… from space!

    Updated: 2012-02-21 17:30:50
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Breaking news : Heartland leaker is scientist Peter Gleick , says documents are all real Super-Earth exoplanet likely to be a waterworld Moon bites multicolor Sun from space Earlier today , the Solar Dynamics Observatory had a front seat to a pretty nifty event : a partial eclipse of the Sun . For about 100 minutes , from its orbital viewpoint SDO saw the Moon pass in front of the Sun , partially blocking it . SDO semi-fictional mascot Camilla Corona created a really cool video of the event using footage from different wavelengths edited : together The false color images show

  • SYMPOSIUM AT ICNAAM 2012: "Direct Hamiltonization - the Generalization of the Alternative Hamiltonization"

    Updated: 2012-02-21 00:00:00
    Conference: 19 Sep 2012 - 25 Sep 2012, Kypriotis Hotels and Conference Center, Kos, Kos, Greece. Organized by Dr. Maria Lewtchuk Espindola.

  • A planet where men evolved from apes?

    Updated: 2012-02-19 14:00:23
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS International Hollywood Star Registry Time lapse : Epic Skies A planet where men evolved from apes The next time some creationist starts talking smack about evolution being impossible and that humans aren’t animals and they’re not descended from apes , show them this : picture I was browsing uploaded pictures in the 500px app and this came up I added the white box and fuzzed out the other thumbnails . Sometimes , coincidence is pretty . funny Share February 19th , 2012 7:00 AM Tags : apes creationism humans by Phil Plait in Antiscience Debunking Humor Piece of mind Religion

  • Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-17 16:17:50
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  • A dying bloom in space

    Updated: 2012-02-17 14:00:36
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hip , hip , hypocrisy Q BA : How does a gravity slingshot work A dying bloom in space I love a good coincidence . On Monday morning , I posted a gorgeous picture of the planetary nebula Abell 31 an object formed when a dying star blows off its outer layers in a series of winds which collide with each other . I mentioned that these nebulae are usually symmetric Abell 31 happens not to be because it’s moving rapidly through space , and the gas through which it moves is compressing one side of it . But events like that are not the norm most planetaries show stunning symetric

  • On classical de Sitter solutions in higher dimensions

    Updated: 2012-02-17 07:40:28
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  • Dynamical formation and evolution of (2+1)-dimensional charged black holes

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  • Discover the Universe Dallas Texas Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Ga

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  • February 2012 issue of symmetry available

    Updated: 2012-02-16 19:09:44
    Our February issue runs the gamut from the proud 30-year-legacy of the Tevatron Collider to the latest popular physics sensation: faster-than-light neutrinos.

  • Astronomy.com named top 100 educational website Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Fo

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    Updated: 2012-02-14 22:50:19
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  • Tomorrow: Live underground tour of the CMS detector on Google+

    Updated: 2012-02-14 10:16:32
    You're invited to tour an underground cavern that holds one of the largest scientific experiments in the world. Tomorrow, Feb. 15, the head of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, physicist Joe Incandela, will chat live from the CMS detector 100 meters underground in France via a Google+ Hangout.

  • CERN plans for even more intense year of LHC physics

    Updated: 2012-02-13 15:40:11
    CERN scientists will begin running the Large Hadron Collider at a higher energy than ever before when this winter’s technical stop comes to a close in mid-March, the laboratory announced in a press release today.

  • The first ever all-sky map of CO released today by the ESA...

    Updated: 2012-02-13 14:44:12
    . Follow on Tumblr Ask me anything RSS Random post Archive Orbiting Frog Astronomy  Space  Science Search Pages Satellite Tracking KML OverTwitter Oxford Solar System About this site I work at the University of Oxford as part of the Zooniverse , a world-leading Citizen Science platform . I am an astrophysicist and my research involves understanding how stars . form Find me on Facebook Flickr Google Plus Gowalla Twitter Website Sites I follow Show More The first ever all-sky map of CO released today by the ESA Planck team CO is one of the most abundant molecules in the universe and in this context is an important part of our understanding of star formation in our . galaxy Planck is primarily tasked with mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background CMB and calculating the cosmological

  • Scale of the Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-09 00:14:00
    This is a fantastic, scrollable Universe explorer written in Flash. Learn just how big - and small - everything is. Marvellous. http://htwins.net/scale2/

  • Let’s get ourselves a New Horizons-Pluto stamp Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums

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  • How To Think About Quantum Field Theory

    Updated: 2012-02-07 23:15:52
    I continue to believe that “quantum field theory” is a concept that we physicists don’t do nearly enough to explain to a wider audience. And I’m not going to do it here! But I will link to other people thinking about how to think about quantum field theory. Over on the Google+, I linked to [...]

  • Reader challenge: My physical romance

    Updated: 2012-02-07 11:00:12
    Before next week’s holiday, we at Symmetry Breaking want to know about your affair with physics. Send us a love letter (or “Dear John” letter) about your research, a playful pun about a physical concept, or a story about a connection you’ve made with a fellow scientist. Post your comments here or send them to scharley@fnal.gov. We will publish our favorites on Feb. 14.

  • Introducing LHC Lunch

    Updated: 2012-02-02 14:30:38
    Editor’s note: This article comes from US LHC intern Amy Dusto, who is currently working as a communicator at CERN. She is introducing LHC Lunch, a series of articles and videos she created while getting to know some of the members of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider from U.S. institutions. The busy cafeteria known [...]

  • Remnant of an Explosion With a Powerful Kick?

    Updated: 2012-02-01 05:00:00
    A supernova remnant located about 14,700 light years from Earth toward the center of the Milky Way

  • Astronomy 101 Planets Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:50:57
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  • Testing dark energy using pairs of galaxies in redshift space

    Updated: 2012-01-28 19:48:51
    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Testing dark energy using pairs of galaxies in redshift space Authors : Jennings , E . Baugh , C . . M 1 Pascoli , . S 2 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1079-1091(13 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract The distribution of angles subtended between pairs of galaxies and the line of sight ,

  • Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): iugriz/i galaxy luminosity functions

    Updated: 2012-01-28 11:03:49
    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Galaxy and Mass Assembly GAMA Authors : Loveday , . J 1 Norberg , P . Baldry , I . . K 2 Driver , S . P . Hopkins , A . . M 3 Peacock , J . . A 4 Bamford , S . . P 5 Liske , . J 6 Bland-Hawthorn , . J 7 Brough , . S 3 Brown , M . J . . I 8 Cameron , . E 9 Conselice , C . . J 5 Croom , S . . M 7 Frenk , C . . S 10 Gunawardhana , . M 7 Hill , D . . T 11 Jones , D . . H 8 Kelvin , L . . S 11 Kuijken , . K 12 Nichol , R . . C 13 Parkinson , H . . R 4 Phillipps , . S 14 Pimbblet , K . . A 8 Popescu , C . . C 15 Prescott , . M 2 Robotham , A .

  • Constraining thawing quintessence

    Updated: 2012-01-28 11:03:45
    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Constraining thawing quintessence Authors : Gupta , Gaveshna 1 Majumdar , Subhabrata 2 Sen , Anjan . A 1 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1309-1316(8 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We look at observational constraints on the thawing class of scalar field models proposed to explain

  • Precision simulation of ground-based lensing data using observations from space

    Updated: 2012-01-28 11:03:31
    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Precision simulation of ground-based lensing data using observations from space Authors : Mandelbaum , Rachel 1 Hirata , Christopher . M 2 Leauthaud , Alexie 3 Massey , Richard . J 4 Rhodes , Jason 5 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1518-1540(23 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract

  • Steep faint-end slopes of galaxy mass and luminosity functions at iz/i 6 and the implications for reionization

    Updated: 2012-01-28 11:03:25
    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Steep faint-end slopes of galaxy mass and luminosity functions at Authors : Jaacks , Jason 1 Choi , Jun-Hwan 2 Nagamine , Kentaro 1 Thompson , Robert 1 Varghese , Saju 1 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1606-1620(15 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We present the results of a

  • Spherically averaging ellipsoidal galaxy clusters in X-ray and SunyaevZeldovich studies I. Analytical relations

    Updated: 2012-01-28 11:03:18
    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Spherically averaging ellipsoidal galaxy clusters in X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich studies I . Analytical relations Authors : Buote , David A . Humphrey , Philip . J : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1693-1705(13 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract This is the first of two papers

  • Local Group dwarf galaxies: nature and nurture

    Updated: 2012-01-28 11:03:17
    : Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Local Group dwarf galaxies : nature and nurture Authors : Sawala , Till Scannapieco , Cecilia 1 White , Simon 2 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1714-1730(17 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We investigate the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies in a high-resolution ,

  • Reconstructing the cosmic velocity and tidal fields with galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Updated: 2012-01-28 11:03:12
    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Reconstructing the cosmic velocity and tidal fields with galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Authors : Wang , Huiyuan Mo , H . . J 1 Yang , Xiaohu 2 van den Bosch , Frank . C 3 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1809-1824(16 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract Cosmic velocity and

  • Observing Basics Buying Binoculars Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-18 10:00:22
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  • Discover the Universe outreach program Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-16 02:20:53
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  • Arizona and New Mexico Annular Eclipse Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-16 02:20:52
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  • NASA's Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe

    Updated: 2012-01-10 05:00:00
    A galaxy cluster located about 7.2 billion light years from Earth.

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