• "The Big Bang Never Happened" The New Standard?

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:40:00
    While there is scientific consensus that the Big Bang is the best explanation for the origin of the Universe, there's a growing chorus of doubters among the world astrophysics community, led by the fascinating new work of Wun-Yi Shu at...

  • Super-Massive Star Observed in Carina Nebula

    Updated: 2010-07-30 07:16:00
    A spectacular new image from ESO's Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the brilliant and unusual star WR 22 -a very hot and bright star that is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate...

  • Image of the Day: The Fragile Beauty of a Supernova Embryo

    Updated: 2010-07-30 07:14:00
    The Crescent Nebula was created about 250,000 years ago by the brightest star in its center, a Wolf-Rayet star destined to become a supernova. The massive central star shed its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent...

  • You Create the Caption

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

  • Are you the center of the Universe?

    Updated: 2010-07-29 18:27:05
    One topic which generated a lot of discussion at the Gravity and Cosmology meeting was the void model of the Universe. The basic argument is simple: the dark energy is an ugly addition to our cosmological standard model, with 70% of the energy density of the Universe some mysterious substance with weird properties. From a [...]

  • Scientists Map Entire Brain Network: “The most complex mass of protoplasm on earth—perhaps even in our galaxy."

    Updated: 2010-07-29 09:00:00
    “We have successfully uncovered and mapped the most comprehensive long-distance network of the Macaque monkey brain, which is essential for understanding the brain’s behavior, complexity, dynamics and computation,” announced Dharmendra S. Modha of IBM. “We can now gain unprecedented insight...

  • Stephen Hawking on the Possibility of Quantum ET's (A Galaxy 'Most Popular)

    Updated: 2010-07-29 08:40:00
    On a recent Discovery program on the Universe, Stephen Hawking voiced concern about the dangers, he believes, are posed by aliens who may arrive some day on Earth: "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly...

  • Distant Galaxy Observed With a Black Hole 100 Million X the Mass of Our Sun

    Updated: 2010-07-29 08:15:00
    NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged this coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center. The 'eye' at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared...

  • Image of the Day: Massive Storms & 1000 MPH Winds of Saturn (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:17:00
    Saturn's winds are among the most powerful in the solar system, where superstorms can produce thousand mph winds (approximately three times greater than the equatorial winds on Jupiter). Saturn storms originate in both the northern and southern hemispheres but take...

  • Are Ancient Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting the Milky Way Clues to Dark Matter Mystery? (A Galaxy 'Most Popular')

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:16:00
    Dwarf galaxies are faint, inconspicuous systems with only a few million stars, but they may ultimately play a key role in understanding dark matter. Measurements of the random motions of stars in nearby dwarf galaxies show that these galaxies may...

  • EcoAlert: Massive Algae Bloom in Baltic Sea

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:14:00
    This satellite image from the European Space Agency captures a 377,000-square-kilometer (145,000-square-mile) algal bloom in the Baltic Sea that could pose a risk to marine life in the Baltic Sea. The blue-green bloom, which stretches from Finland in the north...

  • The Daily "140" Insight: The Universe

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:06:00
    "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." Kurt Vonnegut

  • From early particle accelerators to the LHC in 12 minutes

    Updated: 2010-07-28 23:00:10
    Check out a 12-minute public television program that traces the invention of the cyclotron in Berkeley in the 1930s, the development of SLAC's two-mile-long linear accelerator in the 60s, and how they relate to what's going on at the Large Hadron Collider.

  • Lighting up the dark universe

    Updated: 2010-07-28 19:43:27
    Exploring our dark universe is usually the domain of extreme physics. Clues to dark matter and energy are searched for by huge neutrino telescopes and particle detectors, deep underground, and by experiments launched into space. But an experiment doesn't have to be exotic to explore the unexplained. At the International Conference on High Energy Physics, which ends today in Paris, scientists from the GammeV-CHASE experiment unveiled the first results from their experiment, which used 30 hours' worth of data from a 10-meter-long experiment to place the world's best limits on particles of dark energy.

  • Are Earth's Search Technologies Too Primitive to Detect Advanced ET Life?

    Updated: 2010-07-28 08:30:00
    Some of the world's leading astronomers -including Great Britain's astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees- believe aliens, rather than using different radio waves or visible light to signal, may be using an entirely different communication medium such as ghostly neutrinos or...

  • Image of the Day: Ghost Eyes of Virgo

    Updated: 2010-07-28 07:16:00
    Virgo Galaxy Cluster lies a string of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain about 50 million light-years away. Prominent in Markarian's Chain are these two interacting galaxies, NGC 4438 (left) and NGC 4435 - also known as The Eyes. This extraordinary...

  • Titanic Wreck Coming in 3-D

    Updated: 2010-07-28 07:10:00
    In this undated file photo provided by Ralph White, the bow of the Titanic at rest on the bottom of the North Atlantic, about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland. The Titanic struck ice and sank on its maiden voyage in...

  • BP Well Plug Could Create a Devastating Underground Blowout

    Updated: 2010-07-28 07:10:00
    BP plans to plug the well permanently next week with the "static kill" procedure--sending heavy mud down into the capped well--followed by a "permanent kill," which will hopefully seal the Macondo well permanently with mud, cement, and other substances deposited...

  • The Daily "140" Insight: Dark Matter

    Updated: 2010-07-28 07:06:00
    “We are told that only 4 per cent of the Universe is made of atomic matter that we can observe, and that the remaining 96 per cent is missing. Perhaps someone or something else is sitting out there trying to...

  • ImageUV-64 Imaging Software

    Updated: 2010-07-27 10:06:47
    CRAIC Technologies introduces ImageUV™ imaging software for 64-bit Windows 7®

  • Swarm of Black Holes & Neutron Stars Orbiting the Supermassive Monster at Milky Way's Core

    Updated: 2010-07-27 08:30:00
    A swarm of 10,000 or more black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, according to results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This would represent the highest concentration of black holes anywhere in the Galaxy. These relatively...

  • ECASIA 2011

    Updated: 2010-07-27 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Sep 2011 - 9 Sep 2011, Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff, United Kingdom.

  • IOP Annual Plasma Physics Conference 2011

    Updated: 2010-07-27 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Apr 2011 - 7 Apr 2011, Marine Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland, United Kingdom. Organized by the IOP Plasma Physics group.

  • LHC results: Not just the same old thing

    Updated: 2010-07-26 17:30:52
    CERN's press release issued today states that the LHC's first measurements are allowing them to “rediscover” the Standard Model of particle physics. But the presentations at ICHEP tell a slightly different story.

  • Fermilab homes in on Higgs mass

    Updated: 2010-07-26 16:28:11
    Higgs likely lighter, and more elusive

  • New limits on Higgs mass announced

    Updated: 2010-07-26 15:19:58
    New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab revealed their latest Higgs search results today (July 26) at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from July 22-28. Their results rule out a significant fraction of the allowed mass range established by earlier experiments.

  • Higgs is the hot topic at ICHEP

    Updated: 2010-07-24 01:55:34
    Everyone's catching Higgs fever, even French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The elusive particle - and the race between the experiments at Fermilab's Tevatron and those at the Large Hadron Collider to discover it - have made headlines for years, but the frenzy reached new heights in the run-up to the International Conference on High Energy Physics.

  • Europe reaches the top, err, the top reaches Europe

    Updated: 2010-07-23 11:44:16
    It might be a long way to the top, but the LHC experiments are already half way there: at the ICHEP conference in Paris CMS and ATLAS presented their first candidates for top quark, the heaviest particle in the Standard Model.

  • The ILC in one minute flat

    Updated: 2010-07-22 21:27:00
    Fly through an animated version of the International Linear Collider.

  • Particle physicists collide in Paris

    Updated: 2010-07-22 01:07:35
    Paris’ 17th arrondissement has become particle physics central. More than 1,000 physicists have descended on the Palais de Congrès conference center to attend the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics, which kicks off today and continues through next Wednesday. ICHEP is the world’s premier particle physics conference, where scientists present and discuss the newest and most intriguing results from experiments in particle physics, particle astrophysics and cosmology, innovative theoretical approaches and predictions, and concepts for future accelerators and particle detectors.

  • Black Hole Jerked Around Twice

    Updated: 2010-07-21 06:00:00
    This image shows the effects of a giant black hole that has been flipped around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before.

  • How Finely-Tuned is the Universe?

    Updated: 2010-07-09 02:29:20
    Breaking radio silence here to report on some of the actual work I’ve been able to complete: a new paper with Heywood Tam. Unitary Evolution and Cosmological Fine-Tuning Authors: Sean M. Carroll, Heywood Tam (Submitted on 8 Jul 2010) Abstract: Inflationary cosmology attempts to provide a natural explanation for the flatness and homogeneity of [...]

  • Black Hole Blows Big Bubble

    Updated: 2010-07-07 06:00:00
    Combining observations made with ESO�s Very Large Telescope and NASA�s Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole.

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

    Updated: 2010-07-02 21:07:50
    Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

  • 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 [...]

  • 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.

  • 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 [...]

  • 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.

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