A Remarkable Outburst from an Old Black Hole
Updated: 2012-04-30 06:00:00
A spiral galaxy located about 15 million light years from Earth.- A spiral galaxy located about 15 million light years from Earth.
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Dawn reveals secrets of giant asteroid Vesta Astronomy Magazine
Updated: 2012-04-28 02:18:08How to make money mining asteroids–without mining asteroids
Updated: 2012-04-27 22:51:39Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment The old rare Earth argument pops up again . Plus : EXACTLY HUGE FIREBALL O’er CALIFORNIA A Forbes Science Writer Takes on the Anti-Vaccine Issue How to make money mining asteroids–without mining asteroids On Wednesday , I wrote that reporters were insufficiently skeptical when evaluating the claims of Planetary Resources , Inc . which announced it was going to make money mining minerals and precious metals from . asteroids In a smart follow-up to his original story , Alex Knapp at Forbes looks at how the company will try to do that . And the surprise is : The company is already making money It seems that this company will do fine , at least for a while , even if it doesn’t get close to digging gold or fool’s gold outCMS collaboration discovers its first new particle
Updated: 2012-04-27 10:48:43
Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.The Silver Streak Galaxy spiral galaxy M100, and barred spiral galaxy M91 Astronomy Magazine
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The Silver Streak Galaxy spiral galaxy M100, and barred spiral galaxy M91 Astronomy Magazine
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Citizen scientists find new purpose in pulsar search
Updated: 2012-04-26 19:39:10
A project that lets citizen volunteers contribute to scientists' search for gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in the fabric of space-time, has expanded its efforts -- with impressive results.
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Moonglow and Orion all-sky cameras Astronomy Magazine
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Moonglow and Orion all-sky cameras Astronomy Magazine
Updated: 2012-04-24 16:16:18World’s largest digital camera one step closer to reality
Updated: 2012-04-24 16:08:57
Perched high atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the largest, fastest, most detailed pictures of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky. With these images, researchers around the world will seek to reveal the nature of dark matter and dark energy—and to answer a host of other questions in [...]More imaging under Namibia's pristine skies Astronomy Magazine
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Carry around the universe's top numbers Astronomy Magazine
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See microlensing in action Astronomy Magazine
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Astronomy Magazine
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Updated: 2012-04-20 01:10:12
The team working on the Large Area Telescope has discovered that most gamma rays detected by LAT cannot be attributed to individual point sources.Astronomy magazine hiring managing editor Astronomy Magazine
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Listening for the sound of science
Updated: 2012-04-18 15:43:13
Ever wonder what physics sounds like? Composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza recently created a musical score that mimics the tracks of subatomic particles.C2E2 was a real eye-opener Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries
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Updated: 2012-04-17 17:07:17
The end of this observing run made up for the unnecessarily interesting variety of weather early on. Calm, clear skies, ran through an object list just as fast as we said in the proposal. Here’s a montage of the red-light images from 9 of the target galaxy pairs done on night 4. That’s it for [...]50 Weirdest Objects in the Cosmos
Updated: 2012-04-17 15:01:28Get our newsletter Customer Service Model Trains Railroading Beading , Jewelry Crafts Special Interests Digital Downloads View Cart Search Home Special Interests Astronomy Special Issues Astronomy Magazine Special Issues 50 Weirdest Objects in the Cosmos 50 Weirdest Objects in the Cosmos Item as3111001 Regular Price 9.95 : Quantity : Rating Estimate Shipping Description Explore the BIZARRE side of space in Astronomys NEW special issue Written by Astronomys popular columnist Bob Berman , 50 Weirdest Objects in the Cosmos counts down strange and wonderful aspects of more than four dozen celestial objects . Youll : discover a moon that orbits backwards stars shaped like footballs an object that doesnt even exist the coldest place in the universe Youll go from weird to weirder as BermanA New View of the Tarantula Nebula
Updated: 2012-04-17 06:00:00
A massive star-forming region located about 160,000 light years away.Night 2 at Kitt Peak – watching out or blown away?
Updated: 2012-04-14 05:35:49The forecast for tonight’s continued imaging of Galaxy Zoo overlapping galaxies was marginal, with a storm expected. That has not yet materalizd, ut the wind have been so high that, after the anemometer flirted with the 72-km/hour safety limit for two hours after sunset, I finally had to shut down a little whole ago. There [...]Observing updates – live from Kitt Peak, April 12/13, 2012
Updated: 2012-04-13 03:23:24(0220 UT) All set up to start work. Worrying clouds have at least temporarily receded. While being checked out by a staff member to make sure I won’t break things, I’ve checked the telescope pointing on a couple of bright stars (Castor and Pollux, in fact) and am just waiting another few minutes for it [...]Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster
Updated: 2012-04-12 06:00:00
A merger of galaxy clusters about 5.2 billion light years from Earth.Two proposed linear collider programs to be joined under new governance
Updated: 2012-04-11 14:00:48
The world’s two most mature proposals for a collider complementary to the Large Hadron Collider are joining collaborative forces. The two proposed electron-positron collider projects, the Compact Linear Collider Study and the International Linear Collider, have traditionally been viewed as casual rivals–both in the running to be built as the future complement to CERN’s proton-smashing [...]Dusty dwarfs from Arizona
Updated: 2012-04-11 06:52:35
How is the latest set of telescopic followups to a Galaxy Zoo project like the aftermath when Moria was delved? One has dwarfs and one had dwarves, and both were dusty. (Look, if you think that’s nerdy, I could have made a reference to First Age history). Incoming data! This week I’m headed up to [...]New Dataset from Galaxy Zoo!
Updated: 2012-04-09 22:44:35We’ve posted a new data set here: http://data.galaxyzoo.org/#agn This sample is presented in the Galaxy Zoo 1 paper on AGN host galaxies (Schawinski et al., 2010, ApJ, 711, 284). It is a volume-limited sample of galaxies (0.02 < z < 0.05, M_z < -19.5 AB) with emission line classifications, stellar masses, velocity dispersions and GZ1 morphological [...]Explore The World's Greatest Telescopes in a new special issue from Astronomy magazine Astronomy Mag
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LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8 TeV
Updated: 2012-04-05 09:29:31At just after midnight in Geneva, operators brought stable beams of protons into collisions at the record-breaking energy of 8 TeV — 4 TeV per beam — for the first time. This marked the beginning of the LHC experiments’ data-taking for physics for 2012. “The experience of two good years of running at 3.5 TeV [...]Physicists mobilize to rescue U.S. neutrino experiment
Updated: 2012-04-04 21:00:36
Neutrino physicists in the U.S. have begun to regroup after a disappointing setback last week, when they learned the Department of Energy would not support the budget of a major proposed experiment. The silver lining, as they see it, is that they have the chance to reevaluate their plans and find a path forward. DOE [...]Korean experiment confirms groundbreaking neutrino measurement
Updated: 2012-04-04 18:33:24
Hot on the heels of the Daya Bay experiment's completion of one of the most difficult measurements in neutrino physics, a Korean experiment has produced its own measurement confirming the earlier results.