• Image of the Day: Alex's 80-90 MPH Winds Roaring Into Gulf -Ecological Hyper-Tragedy Unfolding

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:38:34

  • Casting aside Copernicus

    Updated: 2010-06-30 15:19:15
    The Copernican principle is a guiding foundation of cosmology. In short, it states that we are not in a privileged place in the Universe. A “random” observer will see the same Universe that we do. The cosmological standard model does satisfy this principle in space: at this moment, any other observer in the Universe should [...]

  • Radiation fears stalk stellar mission

    Updated: 2010-06-30 10:53:31
    Technical problems could hinder the satellite's ability to map a billion stars in the Milky Way

  • Are Massive Arcs of High-Energy Photons That Sweep the Milky Way From Another Universe?

    Updated: 2010-06-30 08:30:00
    In sync atomic physicist Neils Bohr's famous comment about a colleagues crazy theory that "it's crazy, but maybe not crazy enough to be true," an eminent physicist has developed a theory that gamma ray bursts that occur at the fringes...

  • ET Tech: "Could Technology Exist That's Beyond Information & Matter?" (A Galaxy Classic)

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:50:00
    Stephen Hawking warned recently that contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization could have dire consequences for the human species. Arthur C Clarke once made the famous observation that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. Following in their...

  • Pleiades - NASA's "Deep Thought"

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:16:00
    "Good morning, Dave." NASA uses "Pleiades," its petaflops supercomputer, to make blindingly fast and accurate measurements in the field of “higher fidelity” modeling and simulation. For instance, NASA already is using supercomputers to model black holes. It will also help...

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:08:00

  • Pop Culture: "Space Nazis Attack!"

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:06:00
    A team of Finnish filmmakers will soon start shooting an outlandish sci-fi Nazi movie financed in part by avid fans. The first teaser for Iron Sky, Space Nazis Attack, above, has generated more than 1.3 million YouTube views since its...

  • 'You Couldn't Make This Up' Dept

    Updated: 2010-06-30 07:05:00
    Image credit: Insect Lives by R.Sotero/Flickr

  • A Black Hole Slingshot?

    Updated: 2010-06-30 06:00:00
    Evidence for a recoiling black hole has been found using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, the Hubble Space Telescope, and several ground-based telescopes.

  • Nd:YVO4

    Updated: 2010-06-29 10:10:56
    Nd:YVO4 is commonly used as an active laser medium for DPSSL. It comes as a transparent blue-tinted material. It is birefringent, therefore rods made of it are usually rectangular.

  • Nd:YAG

    Updated: 2010-06-29 10:10:48
    Nd:YAG is the most widely used active laser medium in solid-state lasers. It can be used in lasers utilizing frequency doubling and frequency tripling, and high-energy Q-switching.

  • KTA crystal

    Updated: 2010-06-29 10:10:35
    KTA is an excellent NLO crystal developed mainly for Optical Parametric Oscillation (OPO)

  • β-BBO

    Updated: 2010-06-29 10:08:23
    β-BBO is a crystal used for frequency mixing and other nonlinear optics applications.

  • Cr:YAG

    Updated: 2010-06-29 10:07:50
    Cr:YAG can be used for passive Q-switching the diode or lamp pumped Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Nd:YVO4, Yb:YAG, and other neodymium and yttrium doped lasers at wavelengths between 1000-1200nm.

  • Edward Witten wins Newton medal

    Updated: 2010-06-29 10:07:45
    String theorist honoured for transforming physics

  • Cobolt RumbaTM: Ultra-low noise 1064 nm

    Updated: 2010-06-29 10:07:44
    Cobolt AB announces the release of a new wavelength on the ground breaking single-frequency 05-01 platform released in 2009.

  • The Jupiter Effect: "Is everything we know about the Universe wrong?"

    Updated: 2010-06-29 08:40:00
    Two recent results suggest that the answer to the above question is “Quite possibly!” Utane Sawangwit and Tom Shanks of Durham University that the errors on the “gold standard” cosmic microwave background results from the WMAP satellite may be larger...

  • NASA's Infrared Eye Yields "Nemesis" Objects -The Coldest Known Stars in the Universe

    Updated: 2010-06-29 08:30:00
    Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 14 of the coldest stars known in our universe. These failed stars, called brown dwarfs, are so cold and faint that they'd be impossible to see with current visible-light telescopes. Spitzer's infrared vision...

  • Asteroid Response System in Place (Complete With U.S. Military Eye Patch)

    Updated: 2010-06-29 08:00:00
    If an asteroid with Planet Earth's name on it shows up, we're prepared. Astronomers in Haleakala, Hawaii have announced that the Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) telescope, PS1, is fully operational. Pan-STARRS will search for killer asteroids,...

  • New Tech: Pulsars Used to Detect Gravitational Waves Created by Super-Massive Black Holes

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:20:00
    An international team of scientists including University of British Columbia astronomer Ingrid Stairs has discovered a promising way to fine-tune pulsars into the best precision time-pieces in the Universe and provide astronomers with a new tool to study the powerful...

  • Image of the Day: The Deadly Beauty of a Super-Massive Black Hole

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:14:00
    The super-active Circinus galaxy -only 4 degrees below the Galactic plane, and 13 million light-years away- belongs to a class of mostly spiral galaxies called Seyferts, which have compact centers and are believed to contain massive black holes. Seyfert galaxies...

  • A Moment of Zen: "The Conquest of Paradise"

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:10:00

  • The Daily "140" Insight: "The Future"

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:06:00
    “The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.” William Gibson, "noir prophet" and cyberpunk author of Neuromancer and Spook Country.

  • WOOT! Galaxy Fans -Join the IDG Tech Panel for Free Gadgets & Rewards

    Updated: 2010-06-29 07:05:00
    Major companies around the world value the opinion of thought leaders like you! Join the IDGTechPanel to be invited to a variety of interesting and rewarding survey opportunities. In exchange for your valuable time and insight, you will have exclusive...

  • International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO 2010)

    Updated: 2010-06-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 16 Dec 2010 - 18 Dec 2010, Chennai, India. Organized by SRM University (Chennai), Springer.

  • Einstein's Cross -A Quasar at the Edge of the Observable Universe

    Updated: 2010-06-28 08:14:00
    The Einstein Cross is a gravitationally lensed quasar that is quadruply imaged, hence its name, Einstein Cross, forming a nearly perfect cross, with the lensing galaxy at its center. The quasar is located about 8 billion light years from Earth,... </a

  • Image of the Day: Supernova Mystery of 1572 A.D.

    Updated: 2010-06-28 07:16:00
    An international team of astronomers in 2004 identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and other astronomers of that era. The discovery provided the...

  • The Gulf Oil Spill: Back Into the Wild!

    Updated: 2010-06-28 07:14:00
    Pelicans are released into the wild Sunday June 20, 2010, at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in to the Saint Charles Bay. Nearly 40 pelicans were brought from to the refuge from the Louisiana shores where they had been covered...

  • The Daily "140" Insight

    Updated: 2010-06-28 07:08:00
    2010: "The Year We Make Contact." Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 -A Space Odyssey Image: Mars' enigmatic moon, Phobos

  • The Large Cryogenic Gravitational-wave Telescope

    Updated: 2010-06-25 16:25:17
    I am presently in Japan, participating in the Gravity and Cosmology workshop at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics on the Kyoto University campus. The big news here is that the Large Cryogenic Gravitational-wave Telescope (LCGT) was just approved for funding! I believe that this is the press release, as witnessed by the exclamation mark [...]

  • Possible multiple Higgs role in matter-antimatter balance gets a blessing

    Updated: 2010-06-23 00:10:57
    The idea that a preference in meson decays for matter over antimatter could point to a whole world of unseen particles, including multiple Higgs bosons, just got a blessing.

  • WOOT! Galaxy Fans: Join the IDG Tech Panel for Free Gadgets & Rewards

    Updated: 2010-06-18 23:27:13
    Major companies around the world value the opinion of thought leaders like you! Join the IDGTechPanel to be invited to a variety of interesting and rewarding survey opportunities. In exchange for your valuable time and insight, you will have exclusive...

  • MiniBooNE results suggest antineutrinos act differently

    Updated: 2010-06-18 18:41:32
    Like another neutrino result earlier this week, the MiniBooNE experiment has found that antineutrinos, which should follow the same rules as neutrinos, might oscillate in a slightly different way. The results seem to favor a much-debated antineutrino result obtained by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector experiment in 1990.

  • New measurements from Fermilab’s MINOS experiment suggest a difference in a key property of neutrinos and antineutrinos

    Updated: 2010-06-14 18:24:19
    A new measurement from the MINOS neutrino experiment today announced an unexpected variance in a property of neutrinos versus antineutrinos. This mass difference parameter, called Δm2 (“delta m squared”), is smaller by approximately 40 percent for neutrinos than for antineutrinos.

  • Rewriting textbooks and remeasuring the particle data booklet at the LHC

    Updated: 2010-06-14 12:07:54
    During last week's Physics at LHC conference, textbooks were being literally rewritten as experimental particle physicists presented their remeasurements of the data contained in the particle data booklet, which contains all possible data for all existing and hypothetical particles. One theorist presented his prediction for a page from the 2016 version of the booklet.

  • Drinking data from a fire hose at the LHC

    Updated: 2010-06-11 19:21:15
    The Large Hadron Collider's beam brightness has steadily increased over the past two and a half months. It currently takes a minute to see as many collisions as we used to see in a day. Very soon, the same number of collisions will take seconds.

  • A Close-up View of Codependent Stellar Living

    Updated: 2010-06-09 06:00:00
    This image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth.

  • Scientists present first “bread-and-butter” results from LHC collisions

    Updated: 2010-06-08 14:50:03
    It's been just over two months since the first high-energy proton collisions took place in the Large Hadron Collider, and scientists from the LHC experiments have been working feverishly to analyze the data now pouring from their detectors. The results of the first analyses using real LHC data are being presented this week at the "Physics at LHC" conference at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany.

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

    Updated: 2010-06-02 12:57:30
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    Updated: 2010-06-02 12:57:19
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  • Nearby Black Hole is Feeble and Unpredictable

    Updated: 2010-05-25 06:00:00
    The large image here shows an optical view, with the Digitized Sky Survey, of the Andromeda Galaxy, otherwise known as M31.

  • Stellar Shrapnel Seen in Aftermath of Explosion

    Updated: 2010-05-24 06:00:00
    This beautiful composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

  • X-ray Discovery Points to Location of Missing Matter

    Updated: 2010-05-11 06:00:00
    At a distance of about 400 million light years from Earth, a massive "wall" of galaxies stretching tens of millions of light years.

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