martes, 22 de marzo de 2011

The Enigma of Ancient Galaxy Clusters -"Like finding modern skyscrapers in ancient Rome" & 5 new articles...


The Enigma of Ancient Galaxy Clusters -"Like finding modern skyscrapers in ancient Rome" & 5 new articles...


New results show that the Chandra image of M31-the Andromeda galaxy implies that the merger of two white dwarfs is the main trigger for Type Ia supernovas. The object would be about 40 times brighter than observed if the type...
 

Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope reported that they discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL J0546-5345) weighs in at around 800 trillion Suns, and holds hundreds of...
 

Scientists suspect that Venus's atmosphere might hide extraterrestrial lifeforms, and in the ultimate safari ever, they want to go there and capture them with a flying balloon. Interplanetary travel, extraterrestrial life, and Venusian airships - anyone doing anything other than...
 

It's not the name of a Japanese scifi movie...Scientists have spotted stellar fossils in the center of the Milky Way, globular clusters orbiting in the central bulge which seem to have come from somewhere else. Like all fossils these are...
 

Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, a NASA team member, collects samples as he tests a space suit designed for possible use in Mars at Argentina's Marambio base in Antarctica on March 13th. The NDX-1 space suit, designed by De...
 

There seems to be no let up to the unprecendented waves of aftershocks that continue to rock Japan in the aftermath of this month's megaquake. Earlier today, CNN reported that there were three strong quakes located off the coast of...
 
 
 
 
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