viernes, 18 de febrero de 2011

Galaxy Starbursts Triggered by Dark Matter -"An Enigma Inside a Mystery" & 8 New articles

Galaxy Starbursts Triggered by Dark Matter -"An Enigma Inside a Mystery" & 8 New articles:


ESA’s Herschel infrared space telescope made an unexpected discovery: a vast hole in space. The hole has provided astronomers with a surprising glimpse into the end of the star-forming process. A cloud of bright reflective gas known to astronomers as...
 

The shredded remains of of one of the estimated seven trillion dwarf galaxies in the observable Universe has been located buried within our Milky Way Galaxy. Some astronomers think that the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way, Omega Centauri,...
 

Most of the mass of any galaxy is expected to be "dark matter," an elusive X Factor that has yet to be detected but which astronomers believe must exist to provide sufficient gravity to prevent galaxies ripping themselves apart as...
 

Our eyes that scan the farthest reaches of the universe had their origin in the simple hydra, a members ancient group of sea creatures that along with jellyfish, belong to the phylum cnidaria that first emerged 600 million years ago...
 

ESA’s Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and open a new window on the...
 

The strongest solar flare in four years disrupted radio communications in southern China, according to the China Meteorological Administration. The powerful solar eruption triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and...
 

In a srunning victory for the planet's whale population, Japan announced yesterday that it was suspending its annual whale hunt in the waters of Antarctica, blaming Sea Shepherd, the marine conservation group whose anti-whaling tactics spawned its own television series,...
 

In NASA’s Dreams: Laser-Launched Rockets and Deep Space Cruisers With the space shuttles soon bound for retirement homes, NASA is dreaming up the future of U.S. human space flight. Recently, NASA has divulged its interest in two new gadgets: rockets...
 
 
 
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