• Milky Way's Stellar Halo --Filled with Stars Almost as Old as the Universe (Today's Most Popular)

    Updated: 2012-02-10 22:23:17
    The Milky Way's ancient stars once belonged to other galaxies instead of being the earliest stars born inside the galaxy when it began to form about 10 billion years ago. Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of...

  • The week in pictures February 4–10, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • The week in pictures February 4–10, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Could Venus be shifting gear Astronomy Magazine

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  • AKARI finds carbon monoxide molecules embedded in 10-million-degree gas Astronomy Magazine

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  • AKARI finds carbon monoxide molecules embedded in 10-million-degree gas Astronomy Magazine

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  • The looks of science Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries Blogs

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  • Planning Australia for this year’s big total eclipse Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community

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  • Japanese cosmology centre secures long-term future

    Updated: 2012-02-10 15:15:49
    Tokyo institute receives $7.5m endowment from US-based Kavli Foundation

  • Chandra finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids Astronomy Magazine

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  • Chandra finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids Astronomy Magazine

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  • Watching a tiny galaxy grow Astronomy Magazine

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  • Rob Walrecht’s planned super cool superplanisphere Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Fo

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  • A pair of double stars in Puppis the Meat Hook Galaxy and Procyon B Astronomy Magazine

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  • A pair of double stars in Puppis the Meat Hook Galaxy and Procyon B Astronomy Magazine

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  • NewsFlash: A Gigantic Comet-like Dwarf Galaxy Discovered

    Updated: 2012-02-09 21:49:15
    A UCLA team has used a unique telescope to discover a previously unknown companion to the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 (image below), which is some 12.5 million light years from Earth. The newly discovered dwarf galaxy had escaped even the...

  • TritonTM Cryogen Free Dilution Refrigerator

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  • The dream of open science

    Updated: 2012-02-09 11:00:00
    Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked Science

  • The dream of open science

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    Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked Science

  • Web life

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    SciEnts and Sciencelive – two sites that offer slightly different takes on scientific outreach and entertainment

  • Scale of the Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-09 00:14:00
    This is a fantastic, scrollable Universe explorer written in Flash. Learn just how big - and small - everything is. Marvellous. http://htwins.net/scale2/

  • VLT takes most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula Astronomy Magazine

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  • 2012 Youth Essay Contest deadline fast approaches Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community

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  • Funhouse galaxy

    Updated: 2012-02-08 14:00:10
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Science Getaways : Update I’m giving a talk at Eastern Michigan University Feb . 15 Funhouse galaxy Sometimes , I like to think of a photon of light as a car on a road . As the road dips and curves , a car has to follow that path , dipping and curving as well . It might be weird to think of space as curving , but it does . Gravity from massive objects warps space , and a beam of light moving through that curved space curves along with it . This is the principle behind what’s called gravitational lensing A beam of light passing by an object a big galaxy , say , or a cluster of

  • How To Think About Quantum Field Theory

    Updated: 2012-02-07 23:15:52
    I continue to believe that “quantum field theory” is a concept that we physicists don’t do nearly enough to explain to a wider audience. And I’m not going to do it here! But I will link to other people thinking about how to think about quantum field theory. Over on the Google+, I linked to [...]

  • Image of the Day: 3 Billion-Year-Old Site of an Ancient Mars Ocean

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:00:00
    Mars' mysterious 3 billion years old Syrtis Major shown above in this Mars Express image was once thought to be a shallow sea. The region, first discovered in 1659 by physicist and astronomer Christaan Huygens, who used its appearance during...

  • Reader challenge: My physical romance

    Updated: 2012-02-07 11:00:12
    Before next week’s holiday, we at Symmetry Breaking want to know about your affair with physics. Send us a love letter (or “Dear John” letter) about your research, a playful pun about a physical concept, or a story about a connection you’ve made with a fellow scientist. Post your comments here or send them to scharley@fnal.gov. We will publish our favorites on Feb. 14.

  • Stunning Image of One of the Most Ancient Galaxy Clusters in the Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-06 21:30:59
    This Chandra image shows gravitationally-bound, hot gas enveloping the distant galaxy known as 3C294. This X-ray emission is considered a signature for an extremely massive cluster of galaxies – one of the largest known structures in the universe. Astronomers believe...

  • Supermassive Black Holes Doomed Star Creation in Early Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-06 16:15:00
    Using the APEX telescope, a team of astronomers has found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies found today. The galaxies, flowering with dramatic starbursts...

  • New Hubble Image of a Spectacular "Barred" Galaxy & Brilliant Quasars

    Updated: 2012-02-05 19:00:29
    The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy, NGC 1073 in the Cetus constellation, that could hrlp unlock clues to the Milky Way. Most of the known spiral galaxies fall into the"barred" category - defined...

  • Image of the Day: "Galactic Magic"

    Updated: 2012-02-04 16:12:39
    This image shows central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631, "The Whale," as seen edge-on from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data (shown in blue and purple) provide the first unambiguous evidence for a...

  • Comment of the Day: "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe"

    Updated: 2012-02-04 14:00:00
    "The problem with this (that humans maybe an early bird in the universe) is that it fails to really understand that when life can exist, it exists rapidly and in great profusion. Using our only existence of proof, Earth, we...

  • Image of the Day: Starbursts in Distant Galaxies

    Updated: 2012-02-03 15:00:00
    In galaxies that glow most brightly in the infrared, astronomers suspect that frantic star formation is in progress, in episodes called starbursts. The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has observed many galaxies which are half as old as... </div

  • Comment of the Day: On Fermi's Paradox

    Updated: 2012-02-03 14:00:00
    "I believe Fermi's paradox to be an arrogant assumption. Say "intelligent" life is rare enough that it only occurs once or twice per galaxy. Sure that makes the universe potentialy teeming with intelligent life.... But that also means that the...

  • Introducing LHC Lunch

    Updated: 2012-02-02 14:30:38
    Editor’s note: This article comes from US LHC intern Amy Dusto, who is currently working as a communicator at CERN. She is introducing LHC Lunch, a series of articles and videos she created while getting to know some of the members of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider from U.S. institutions. The busy cafeteria known [...]

  • "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe" -- Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    Updated: 2012-02-02 08:40:11
    Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because...

  • Calculating the Universe

    Updated: 2012-02-01 15:42:19
    Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, and III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky, producing the biggest 3-D color map of the Universe ever made. Now, scientists have used this visual information for the most accurate computation yet of how matter clumped together – from a time when the universe was only half its present age until now.

  • Comment on: Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton frequency?

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    : . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 4 Comment on : Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton frequency Authors : Hohensee , M.A . Chu , S . Peters , A . Müller , . H : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 4, 21 February 2012 pp . 48001-48005(5 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We show that Wolf et al s analysis 2011 Class . Quantum . Grav 28 145017 does not

  • Remnant of an Explosion With a Powerful Kick?

    Updated: 2012-02-01 05:00:00
    A supernova remnant located about 14,700 light years from Earth toward the center of the Milky Way

  • Astronomy 101 Planets Astronomy Magazine

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  • Q&BA: What happens if you are exposed to the vacuum of space?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:21:08
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Does the planet Fomalhaut b exist Amazing moonset video taken from space Q BA : What happens if you are exposed to the vacuum of space Note : Every week I hold a live video chat on Google+ where I answer questions from readers . I call it Q BA , and when I get a question that stands alone , I'll make it its own video . A lot of people , it seems , have morbid thoughts about space . Why else would I get asked this so much : What would happen to the human body exposed to the vacuum and cold of space Of course , this sort of thing is depicted in scifi movies a lot , and people

  • Fermilab sounds debut in “Alternative Energy”

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:33:37
    Most Fermilab personnel have learned to ignore the ubiquitous booms, hums, growls and crackles of Fermilab machinery. But composer Mason Bates places these sounds center stage in his new piece "Alternative Energy."

  • Testing dark energy using pairs of galaxies in redshift space

    Updated: 2012-01-28 19:48:51
    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Testing dark energy using pairs of galaxies in redshift space Authors : Jennings , E . Baugh , C . . M 1 Pascoli , . S 2 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1079-1091(13 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract The distribution of angles subtended between pairs of galaxies and the line of sight ,

  • Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): iugriz/i galaxy luminosity functions

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    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Galaxy and Mass Assembly GAMA Authors : Loveday , . J 1 Norberg , P . Baldry , I . . K 2 Driver , S . P . Hopkins , A . . M 3 Peacock , J . . A 4 Bamford , S . . P 5 Liske , . J 6 Bland-Hawthorn , . J 7 Brough , . S 3 Brown , M . J . . I 8 Cameron , . E 9 Conselice , C . . J 5 Croom , S . . M 7 Frenk , C . . S 10 Gunawardhana , . M 7 Hill , D . . T 11 Jones , D . . H 8 Kelvin , L . . S 11 Kuijken , . K 12 Nichol , R . . C 13 Parkinson , H . . R 4 Phillipps , . S 14 Pimbblet , K . . A 8 Popescu , C . . C 15 Prescott , . M 2 Robotham , A .

  • Constraining thawing quintessence

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Constraining thawing quintessence Authors : Gupta , Gaveshna 1 Majumdar , Subhabrata 2 Sen , Anjan . A 1 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1309-1316(8 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We look at observational constraints on the thawing class of scalar field models proposed to explain

  • Precision simulation of ground-based lensing data using observations from space

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  • Steep faint-end slopes of galaxy mass and luminosity functions at iz/i 6 and the implications for reionization

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  • Spherically averaging ellipsoidal galaxy clusters in X-ray and SunyaevZeldovich studies I. Analytical relations

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  • Local Group dwarf galaxies: nature and nurture

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    : Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Local Group dwarf galaxies : nature and nurture Authors : Sawala , Till Scannapieco , Cecilia 1 White , Simon 2 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1714-1730(17 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We investigate the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies in a high-resolution ,

  • Reconstructing the cosmic velocity and tidal fields with galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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  • Here’s meteorite in your eye Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Gallerie

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  • Fermilab plans for a future of discovery

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:58:36
    The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.

  • Scientists finish installation of 80-ton ‘particle thermometer’ at ALICE detector

    Updated: 2012-01-24 14:50:24
    Scientists on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider just completed the installation of a crucial component for tracking high-energy particle jets. Without it, physicists would be lacking crucial tools to select which events out of billions to store and analyze.

  • See more SOFIA Astronomy Magazine

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  • The first test of Einstein's gravity Astronomy Magazine

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  • Catch May's annular eclipse Astronomy Magazine

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  • Episode 12 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence Astronomy Magazine

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  • Cutting-edge accelerator design gets results 60 years later

    Updated: 2012-01-20 17:33:32
    Daresbury’s high-intensity proton accelerator, called EMMA, gains its technological edge through an accelerator concept nearly abandoned a half century ago.

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  • Astronomy and NEAF announce the 2012 Youth Essay Contest Astronomy Magazine

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  • Discover the Universe outreach program Astronomy Magazine

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  • Arizona and New Mexico Annular Eclipse Astronomy Magazine

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  • Astronomy tests two tracking mounts Astronomy Magazine

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  • Celestron X-Cel LX 18mm Eyepiece Astronomy Magazine

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  • Explore Scientific 9mm 120° Series Argon-Purged Waterproof Deep Sky Eyepiece Astronomy Magazine

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  • Calling young scientists: Google teams up with CERN and Fermilab for 2012 science fair

    Updated: 2012-01-12 16:17:34
    Submissions opened today for Google’s second annual science fair. Last year’s winner earned a trip to CERN laboratory in Europe, among other things. This year not one, but two particle physics institutions will contribute to the fair. Engineer Steve Myers, director of accelerators and technology at CERN, and physicist Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, will each participate on the final judging panel. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to visit both labs.

  • NASA's Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe

    Updated: 2012-01-10 05:00:00
    A galaxy cluster located about 7.2 billion light years from Earth.

  • Celestial Bauble Intrigues Astronomers

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    A pulsar found within a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)

  • First Glimpse of the Higgs Boson: Guest post from Jack Gunion

    Updated: 2011-12-13 23:59:37
    Perhaps best known in the field of particle physics as the co-author of the Higgs Hunter’s Guide, Jack Gunion has been in the theoretical trenches of the search for the Higgs boson for several decades now. He is a senior professor and leader of the theoretical particle physics group at UC Davis, where he has [...]

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