 Lyman-alpha blobs are so called because they strongly emit radiation due to the Lyman-alpha emission line of hydrogen gas. Normally, Lyman-alpha emission is in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, but Lyman-apha blobs are so distant, their light is redshifted to (longer) optical wavelengths. For more information about Updates, Click on the titles: Galaxies a trillion times brighter than our Sun have been discovered inside enormous blobs that were first found about six years ago by visible-light telescopes, located billions of light-years away in ancient galactic structures or filaments, where thousands of young... Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National AcceleratorLaboratory have announced the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. The result is consistent with and significantly constrains...  |
By studying how chemical elements emit and absorb radiation inside stars and around black holes, Ohio State University astronomers have discovered that heavy metals such as iron emit low-energy electrons when exposed to X-rays at specific energies. Their discovery raises...  |
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Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's 2004 Genesis mission have discovered that our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than previously thought. About 4.6 billion years ago, the solar nebula transformed into the present solar system. In...  |
The Harvard Minor Planet Center announced that an asteroid the size of a large house--at least double the size of the asteroids that have previously been observed so close to Earth-- will zip within 12,900 kilometres of the Earth at...  |
“Earlier this year, molecular biologists announced that 20 per cent of nonhuman genome databases are contaminated with human DNA, probably from the researchers who sequenced the samples,” Technology Review‘s The Physics ArXiv blog. “Now, the human genome itself has become...  |
This false-color satellite picture released June 17 by the European Space Agency.Alaska's Yukon River branches into a tangle of tributaries as it nears the Bering Sea. The Yukon is North America's fifth longest river system, flowing some 1,982 miles (3,190...  |
Genesis Probe Crashes Down to Earth (VIDEO) In 2004, the NASA probe's parachute malfunctioned and it crash-landed in Utah. The probe was sent about 900,000 miles from Earth to collect bits of solar wind and return them for study -...  |
Officially, Apollo 17, launched Dec. 17, 1972, was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the Department of...  |
Mountain climber Rodney Hogg made a grisly discovery on his route to the 29,000-foot peak of Mt. Everest when he spotted the frozen body of his close friend, Peter Kinloch — a 28-year-old from Scotland who died of frostbite and... Provided by The Daily Galaxy |
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Primordial Galaxies a Trillion Times Brighter Than the Sun Found Inside Cosmic Blobs & 9 new Items
