• New Hubble Image of a Spectacular "Barred" Galaxy & Brilliant Quasars

    Updated: 2012-02-05 19:00:29
    The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy, NGC 1073 in the Cetus constellation, that could hrlp unlock clues to the Milky Way. Most of the known spiral galaxies fall into the"barred" category - defined...

  • Weekend Featured Image: "Galactic Magic"

    Updated: 2012-02-04 16:12:39
    This image shows central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631, "The Whale," 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... <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond?a=48IHFhASiMA:9M4Af2pxA4Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"

  • Weekend Featured Quote: "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe"

    Updated: 2012-02-04 14:00:00
    "The problem with this (that humans maybe an early bird in the universe) is that it fails to really understand that when life can exist, it exists rapidly and in great profusion. Using our only existence of proof, Earth, we...

  • Come to Hawaii for the transit of Venus Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media

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  • Image of the Day: Starbursts in Distant Galaxies

    Updated: 2012-02-03 15:00:00
    In galaxies that glow most brightly in the infrared, astronomers suspect that frantic star formation is in progress, in episodes called starbursts. The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has observed many galaxies which are half as old as...

  • Comment of the Day: On Fermi's Paradox

    Updated: 2012-02-03 14:00:00
    "I believe Fermi's paradox to be an arrogant assumption. Say "intelligent" life is rare enough that it only occurs once or twice per galaxy. Sure that makes the universe potentialy teeming with intelligent life.... But that also means that the...

  • Sheldon Reynolds’ Images of Life Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleri

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  • NewsFlash: Russia to Begin Search for Alien Planets

    Updated: 2012-02-02 16:59:07
    Russia plans to start their own search for planets outside our solar system following U.S. and French successes in finding such exoplanets. The U.S. Kepler space telescope and France's CoRoT space telescope have been successful in identifying exoplanets, while Russia's...

  • 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 [...]

  • "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe" -- Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    Updated: 2012-02-02 08:40:11
    Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because...

  • Dielectrics 2013

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:00:00
    Conference: 10 Apr 2013 - 12 Apr 2013, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom. Organized by the IOP Dielectrics Group.

  • IBEX illuminates a dark corner of our neighborhood Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Fo

    Updated: 2012-02-01 21:40:21
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  • Calculating the Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-01 15:42:19
    Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, and III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky, producing the biggest 3-D color map of the Universe ever made. Now, scientists have used this visual information for the most accurate computation yet of how matter clumped together – from a time when the universe was only half its present age until now.

  • Image of the Day: A Gigantic Inter-Galaxy Shock Wave

    Updated: 2012-02-01 14:26:00
    This false-color composite image of the Stephan's Quintet galaxy cluster clearly shows one of the largest shock waves ever seen (the green arc above), produced by one galaxy falling toward another at over a million miles per hour. It is...

  • Comment on: Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton frequency?

    Updated: 2012-02-01 12:37:44
    : . 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 Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 4 Comment on : Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton frequency Authors : Hohensee , M.A . Chu , S . Peters , A . Müller , . H : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 4, 21 February 2012 pp . 48001-48005(5 Publisher : IOP Publishing 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 : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We show that Wolf et al s analysis 2011 Class . Quantum . Grav 28 145017 does not

  • Fermilab's next frontier

    Updated: 2012-02-01 10:00:00
    Margaret Harris learns about Fermilab's plans for the post-Tevatron era

  • 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

  • Q&BA: What happens if you are exposed to the vacuum of space?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:21:08
    [Note: Every week I hold a live video chat on Google+ where I answer questions from readers. I call it Q&BA, and when I get a question that stands alone, I'll make it its own video. ] A lot of people, it seems, have morbid thoughts about space. Why else would I get asked this [...]

  • Fermilab sounds debut in “Alternative Energy”

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:33:37
    Most Fermilab personnel have learned to ignore the ubiquitous booms, hums, growls and crackles of Fermilab machinery. But composer Mason Bates places these sounds center stage in his new piece "Alternative Energy."

  • Light from a 25-Million-Year Old Epic Catastrophe in an Odd Galaxy Reached Earth this Month

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:26:33
    The image above shows the aftermath of a stellar explosion of epic proportions that happened 25 million years ago in an odd-shaped galaxy that may have merged with a second galaxy, while saber-toothed cats and mammoths roamed the Earth. A...

  • Episode 12 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:25:47
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  • Astronomy and NEAF announce the 2012 Youth Essay Contest Astronomy Magazine

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  • Arizona and New Mexico Annular Eclipse Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:25:45
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  • Discover the Universe outreach program Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:25:45
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  • See more SOFIA Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:25:44
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  • The first test of Einstein's gravity Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:25:41
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  • Catch May's annular eclipse Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:25:36
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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 ,

  • Image of the Day: Pandora's Cluster --The Most Colossal Known Galaxy Mashup

    Updated: 2012-01-28 18:18:38
    This is the most colossal known smash-up observed in the universe. This awesome bundle of galaxies, nicknamed Pandora's cluster, turns out to be the result of a violent mashup between at least four separate galaxy clusters that occured over hundreds...

  • 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

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    : 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

  • NASA Solves Mystery of Earth's 'Missing Energy'

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:14:00
    Two years ago, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing energy" in the planet's...

  • Here’s meteorite in your eye Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Gallerie

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  • Weekly Space Roundup for January 26, 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-27 14:05:59
    Yesterday was the weekly live video Space Roundup, run by Fraser Cain from Universe Today. This week we had Pamela Gay, Alan Boyle, Nicole Gugliucci, and Ian O’Neill. We talked about the solar storm, black holes, arsenic life, Newt Gingrich, Phobos-Grunt, and answered some questions from the listeners. Here’s the video: We do these every [...]

  • This is a galaxy

    Updated: 2012-01-26 19:23:16
    I have nothing to add to this, except to say it’s great, and I saw it because Brian Cox mentioned it on Twitter. Oh yeah: one more thing; watch it in HD and full screen. Coooool.

  • Fermilab plans for a future of discovery

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:58:36
    The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.

  • It’s all in the instrument renaming Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media G

    Updated: 2012-01-25 09:51:39
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  • Scientists finish installation of 80-ton ‘particle thermometer’ at ALICE detector

    Updated: 2012-01-24 14:50:24
    Scientists on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider just completed the installation of a crucial component for tracking high-energy particle jets. Without it, physicists would be lacking crucial tools to select which events out of billions to store and analyze.

  • Astronomy tests two tracking mounts Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-20 18:50:38
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  • Astronomy tests two tracking mounts Astronomy Magazine

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  • Celestron X-Cel LX 18mm Eyepiece Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-20 18:50:31
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  • Explore Scientific 9mm 120° Series Argon-Purged Waterproof Deep Sky Eyepiece Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-20 18:50:30
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  • Celestron X-Cel LX 18mm Eyepiece Astronomy Magazine

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  • Cutting-edge accelerator design gets results 60 years later

    Updated: 2012-01-20 17:33:32
    Daresbury’s high-intensity proton accelerator, called EMMA, gains its technological edge through an accelerator concept nearly abandoned a half century ago.

  • Kids It’s time to tell us what you love most about astronomy Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online

    Updated: 2012-01-18 10:00:17
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  • Calling young scientists: Google teams up with CERN and Fermilab for 2012 science fair

    Updated: 2012-01-12 16:17:34
    Submissions opened today for Google’s second annual science fair. Last year’s winner earned a trip to CERN laboratory in Europe, among other things. This year not one, but two particle physics institutions will contribute to the fair. Engineer Steve Myers, director of accelerators and technology at CERN, and physicist Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, will each participate on the final judging panel. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to visit both labs.

  • Belle experiment makes exotic discovery

    Updated: 2012-01-11 10:29:50
    The Belle Experiment at KEK laboratory in Japan has discovered two unexpected new types of hadrons.

  • Clearest picture yet of dark matter points the way to better understanding of dark energy

    Updated: 2012-01-10 19:38:23
    Two teams of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have independently made the largest direct measurements of the invisible scaffolding of the universe, building maps of dark matter using new methods that, in turn, will remove key hurdles for understanding dark energy with ground-based telescopes.

  • 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.

  • Celestial Bauble Intrigues Astronomers

    Updated: 2011-12-20 05:00:00
    A pulsar found within a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)

  • First Glimpse of the Higgs Boson: Guest post from Jack Gunion

    Updated: 2011-12-13 23:59:37
    Perhaps best known in the field of particle physics as the co-author of the Higgs Hunter’s Guide, Jack Gunion has been in the theoretical trenches of the search for the Higgs boson for several decades now. He is a senior professor and leader of the theoretical particle physics group at UC Davis, where he has [...]

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