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The universe is 13.8 billion years old, while our planet formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Some scientists think this time gap means that life on other planets could be billions of years older than ours. However, new theoretical work suggests that present-day life is actually premature from a cosmic perspective.
Posted: Aug 1st, 2016
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An international team of researchers have discovered an extremely rare, double source plane gravitational lensing system, in which two distant galaxies are simultaneously lensed by a foreground galaxy. The team dubbed the system 'Eye of Horus'. Such a rare system is a unique probe of fundamental physics of galaxies and cosmology.
Posted: Jul 26th, 2016
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Astronomers have discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy's disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust. This new knowledge sheds light on how individual atoms have assembled into stars, planets, and galaxies like our own, and what the future holds for these galaxies.
Posted: Jul 25th, 2016
Read moreFlown on a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station, an experiment shows that large-volume protein crystals, needed for some experiments in drug design, can be grown bigger and better in space than on Earth.
Posted: Jul 25th, 2016
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Scientists have revealed temperature-dependent energy-state conversion of molecular hydrogen on ice surfaces, suggesting the need for a reconsideration of molecular evolution theory.
Posted: Jul 22nd, 2016
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A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2016
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Theory to explain collective effects of neutrinos inside supernovae strengthened.
Posted: Jul 12th, 2016
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A team of astronomers examined around 70,000 galaxies to address an important unsolved mystery in astrophysics.
Posted: Jul 9th, 2016
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Astronomers have discovered evidence for an unusual kind of black hole born extremely early in the universe. They showed that a recently discovered unusual source of intense radiation is likely powered by a 'direct-collapse black hole', a type of object predicted by theorists more than a decade ago.
Posted: Jul 7th, 2016
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Scientists find gas at center of Perseus cluster travels much more slowly than expected.
Posted: Jul 7th, 2016
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Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of a nearby brown dwarf, the coldest known object outside of our solar system.
Posted: Jul 7th, 2016
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Astronomers have shed further light on the evolution of the early Universe with the discovery of a 'team' of super bright galaxies.
Posted: Jul 5th, 2016
Read moreNew research work may result in better simulations of large astrophysical events such as supernova explosions. This work also raises hopes of finding out more about how atomic nuclei behave in neutron stars.
Posted: Jul 5th, 2016
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Astronomers have released spectacular new infrared images of the distant Universe, providing the deepest view ever obtained over a large area of sky.
Posted: Jun 30th, 2016
Read moreTechniques connect solutions to Einstein's equations directly with observations.
Posted: Jun 30th, 2016
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Brand new images from the Herschel telescope give unprecedented insight into the lives of stars and galaxies.
Posted: Jun 29th, 2016
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