Andromeda Provides New Clue to the Evolution of Galaxies & 7 new articles: The search for habitable planets outside our solar system is heating up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, but confirming their planetary status remains a challenge. With some of the Kepler candidates, an eclipsing binary star... |
U.S. astronomers studying the Andromeda galaxy says a thick stellar disk of older stars offers clues to how large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way form. UCLA research astronomer Michael Rich and colleagues from Europe and Australia, using the Keck... |
It's no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in... |
Three new water masers have been discovered in the Milky Way, including what could be one of the fastest ever found - reaching speeds of up to 350 km per second – and a rare ‘water fountain,' a special class... |
This image shows a composite of the N 70 nebula - a "Super Bubble" in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) satellite galaxy to the Milky Way system, located in the southern sky at a distance of about 160,000 light-years. N... |
New sources of extreme life forms have been discovered by scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook. The expedition has located a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean. The fourth discovery... |
The 2001 monolith is a science-fiction icon. It can represent technology, God, alien influence or intense monkey violence, depending on what exactly you got out of Kubrick's masterpiece. But will we ever see one? Rather than go to all the... |
On the 30-question game board, veteran "Jeopardy!" champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter managed only five correct responses between them during the Double Jeopardy round that aired today, ending the first game of the two-game face-off with meager earnings of... Provided by The Daily Galaxy  |
jueves, 17 de febrero de 2011
Andromeda Provides New Clue to the Evolution of Galaxies & 7 new articles
