Telescope Survey Reveals Universe’s Dark Secrets
This small portion of a deep space image taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telscope Legacy Survey reveals thousands of galaxies yet to be explored. (Image: © CFHT/Coelum/Terapix/AstrOmatic) Scientists...
View ArticleHubble Spots Farthest Supernova Yet
Hubble Space Telescope view of supernova SN UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson. The small box in the image pinpoints SN Wilson’s host galaxy in the survey conducted by the CANDELS+CLASH Supernova Project....
View ArticleNASA, ESA Ramp Up Planet-hunting Missions
Artist conception of multiple transiting planet systems – stars with more than one planet orbiting it – discovered recently by NASA’s Kepler mission. (NASA) NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission stirred...
View ArticleNew Research Reveals Ominous Future for Universe
Data provided by Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others was used to study the nature of dark energy. (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) A team of British and Italian scientists recently conducted research that...
View ArticleScience Scanner: Stars Younger than Thought, E-Cigarettes Not Really a...
A visualization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s Planck satellite over the entire sky. ((C) ESA and the Planck Collaboration) Stars Are Younger than...
View ArticleIndia OK’s New Observatory; Japan’s X-Ray Telescope; Long-Lasting Eclipse...
Aerial view of LIGO Observatory in Hanford, Washington (LIGO Laboratory) LIGO Scientific Collaboration to Build New Observatory in India Just days (2/11/16) after announcing the first detection of...
View ArticleOur Expanding Universe; LISA Pathfinder is a Success; Drugs in Waterways
A simulated view of the entire observable universe, approximately 93 billion light years or 28 billion parsecs in diameter. (Azcolvin429 via Creative Commons) How Fast is the Universe Expanding? The...
View ArticleX Marks the Spot; New Radiation Monitor on ISS; 3D Astronomical Map
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission observed and gathered data of the entire sky twice in 2010. Astronomers then used the data to find the X-shaped structure in the bulge of the...
View ArticleTelescope Survey Reveals Universe’s Dark Secrets
This small portion of a deep space image taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telscope Legacy Survey reveals thousands of galaxies yet to be explored. (Image: © CFHT/Coelum/Terapix/AstrOmatic) Scientists...
View ArticleHubble Spots Farthest Supernova Yet
Hubble Space Telescope view of supernova SN UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson. The small box in the image pinpoints SN Wilson’s host galaxy in the survey conducted by the CANDELS+CLASH Supernova Project....
View ArticleNASA, ESA Ramp Up Planet-hunting Missions
Artist conception of multiple transiting planet systems – stars with more than one planet orbiting it – discovered recently by NASA’s Kepler mission. (NASA) NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission stirred...
View ArticleNew Research Reveals Ominous Future for Universe
Data provided by Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others was used to study the nature of dark energy. (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) A team of British and Italian scientists recently conducted research that...
View ArticleScience Scanner: Stars Younger than Thought, E-Cigarettes Not Really a...
A visualization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s Planck satellite over the entire sky. ((C) ESA and the Planck Collaboration) Stars Are Younger than...
View ArticleIndia OK’s New Observatory; Japan’s X-Ray Telescope; Long-Lasting Eclipse...
Aerial view of LIGO Observatory in Hanford, Washington (LIGO Laboratory) LIGO Scientific Collaboration to Build New Observatory in India Just days (2/11/16) after announcing the first detection of...
View ArticleOur Expanding Universe; LISA Pathfinder is a Success; Drugs in Waterways
A simulated view of the entire observable universe, approximately 93 billion light years or 28 billion parsecs in diameter. (Azcolvin429 via Creative Commons) How Fast is the Universe Expanding? The...
View ArticleX Marks the Spot; New Radiation Monitor on ISS; 3D Astronomical Map
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission observed and gathered data of the entire sky twice in 2010. Astronomers then used the data to find the X-shaped structure in the bulge of the...
View ArticleResearchers Doubt the Existence of Dark Energy
Timeline of the Universe. (NASA/WMAP Science Team) According to NASA, the universe is composed of three things. About 4.6% of it is normal (visible) matter, 24% is dark matter and the remaining 71.4%...
View ArticleA Galaxy is Missing Its Dark Matter
Scientists say that the invisible and mysterious dark matter makes up about 27% of all material in the universe. Regular or normal matter that you see and touch every day takes up 5% and the remaining...
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