• Massive "Dark Halo" Discovered Beyond Edge of the Milky Way

    Updated: 2009-11-30 09:38:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Is Water Common in the Universe New Search for the Building Blocks of Life Main November 30, 2009 Massive Dark Halo Discovered Beyond Edge of the Milky Way The biggest things in the universe just got bigger or rather , they've always been bigger and we somehow missed it up to now . 0160 Supercomputer simulations of galactic core black holes indicate that instead of being a mere two billion times the mass of the sun , so insignificant you'd surely lose them if you sneezed , some could be as large as six billion suns not including the dark halo that surrounds the Milky Way , 0160 which is more than ten times as much mass as all of the visible stars , gas , and dust in the rest of the . galaxy The study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Studies which couldn't sound smarter if it was Lex Luthor's university degree focused on Messier 87, a particularly bright active galaxy in the Virgo cluster whose size , strong signals and proximity to Earth make it a common astronomical experimentation subject . 0160 Dr Karl Gebhart and colleagues ran a supercomputer simulation to calculate the mass of

  • Is Water Common in the Universe? New Search for the Building Blocks of Life

    Updated: 2009-11-30 09:00:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Is Life Embedded in the Cosmos New Analysis Says Yes Main Massive Dark Halo Discovered Beyond Edge of the Milky Way November 30, 2009 Is Water Common in the Universe New Search for the Building Blocks of Life Although we don't know yet whether life exists any place beside Earth , we do know that there are three key pieces of evidence that point to the fact that life should be common in the universe . One , the chemical elements that created life on Earth hydrogen , oxygen , nitrogen , and almost two dozen other key elements are found nearly everywhere in the universe , and complex , carbon-bearing elements appear to form easily under conditions that should be common on many planets and moons two , life thrives in a vast range of extreme conditions that are likely to be found in our Solar System and beyond three , life appeared early in Earth's history , make it probable that life is easy . quot The search for knowledge about the chemical composition of the universe is being taken to a new level with the release of spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory , including the UK-led SPIRE

  • Terzan 5! Cosmic Fossil Discovered Embedded In Milky Way

    Updated: 2009-11-30 08:52:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Guide to Surviving the LHC-Restart The Search Continues . Main Is Life Embedded in the Cosmos New Analysis Says Yes November 30, 2009 Terzan 5 Cosmic Fossil Discovered Embedded In Milky Way It's not the name a Japanese horror 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 vital evidence of the evolutionary processes which led to everything we see today . Though for fairness we should point out the rival suggestion of an Intelligently Designed galaxy , where over two hundred billion gigantic fusion reactors were carefully constructed as extraordinarily elaborate background for a single planet . Terzan 5 is a massive blob of over a million tightly packed stars , with up to 10,000 per cubic light-year . Out with us it's less 0.02 over the same volume . Examining their output with the wonderfully named Very Large Telescope which combines four eight-meter apertures into a singe instrument effectively two hundred meters across scientists have spotted distinct stellar

  • The Large Hadron Collider sets new world record

    Updated: 2009-11-30 08:29:22
    CERN just issued a press release announcing that the Large Hadron Collider is now the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. Over the weekend the LHC accelerated beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV, breaking the previous world record of 0.98 TeV that had been held by Fermilab since 2001. Text of CERN press release: LHC [...]

  • The Galaxy Game - Harnessing the Power of Human Imagination

    Updated: 2009-11-30 08:22:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Top Reply To : The Billion-Year Technology Gap : Could One Exist Main Guide to Surviving the LHC-Restart The Search Continues . November 30, 2009 The Galaxy Game Harnessing the Power of Human Imagination Thousands of people might be pouring their lives into the void of Solitaire right now , but Science has a scheme to harness their brains for good even if their owner's don't . The Galaxy Zoo game lets anyone play a combination of a cosmic slot machine with an intergalactic Hot or Not . The result is an amazing fusion of the most pointless time-wasters possible into a valuable tool for understanding cosmic . evolution It's an actual cyborg simulation system , where man and machine are knitted together with HTML instead of heavy surgery . Computers are quick at calculations , but matching patterns requires more math than they can manage assuming we knew how to program it while even the most unarithmetic human can look at two things and tell if they look the same . The Galaxy Zoo harnesses their powers combined . Players see an image of a galactic collision , one of the most awe-inspiring events in creation if you

  • LHC at the High Energy Frontier

    Updated: 2009-11-29 21:01:14
    A few minutes ago, one of the beams of the LHC was ramped up to an energy of 1180 GeV, besting the Tevatron’s top beam energy of 980 GeV. Update: Actually the beam was lost at 1040 GeV, which is still a record high energy. Update: A few minutes ago both beams were successfully ramped [...]

  • Do Cosmic Rays Accelerate Growth of Life? New Discovery Says "Yes"

    Updated: 2009-11-28 14:22:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Stephen Hawking on The Great Silence A Galaxy Classic Main The Billion-Year Technology Gap : Could One Exist The Weekend Feature November 28, 2009 Do Cosmic Rays Accelerate Growth of Life New Discovery Says Yes A new study shows that cosmic radiation could be accelerating the growth of our Earth forests , though as with most cosmic radiation effects we don't know how it's happening or what the effects are . But in accordance with standard Science From Fantastical Space Radiation practice , the results were only discovered by . accident A team from the University of Edinburgh scanned samples from felled Scottish spruce trees to examine the rings . Which , when you think about it , is just like scanning a document but without all the intermediary steps . By examining the width of the yearly rings that form you can examine the growth of the tree over time , and while they were expecting climate factors to dominate cosmic ones turned up . instead There was a clear correlation between cosmic radiation levels and growth , and while it wasn't the usual Grow to twice the size and change color effect we normally associate

  • This week at the LHC

    Updated: 2009-11-27 13:42:42
    It was standing room only in CERN’s main auditorium yesterday as the laboratory’s Director for Accelerators and representatives from each of the four large LHC experiments reported on the performance of their respective machines during the first few days of LHC operation. The “LHC Week 1″ seminar was the first in a series of regular [...]

  • Nonlinear Crystal Optics

    Updated: 2009-11-27 11:43:50
    Optics for wavelength conversion and polarization control over a wide spectral range.

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    Updated: 2009-11-26 16:35:05
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  • Mystery of "X" at the Center of Spiral Galaxies

    Updated: 2009-11-26 08:58:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Gigantic Black Holes Hidden Near the Edges of the Early Universe Main Our Pale Blue Dot A Thanksgiving VIDEO November 26, 2009 Mystery of X at the Center of Spiral Galaxies Astronomy can be the most awesome and annoying thing in the world . The universe is stuffed with stunningly interesting events in every direction , but we're at the mercy of whether we're actually able to see them we can't exactly get out of our Earth-seat and move for a better look . Imagine an IMAX movie explaining the meaning of life and how to clear your credit card , but you can only watch it from inside a rotating . mailbox One such stellar sight is the bulge around the center of galaxies . Spiral galaxies seem to feature an odd X-wing shape around their center , odd dust tracks at and angle to the galactic plane , and before we can explain them we have to be able to see them : specifically , we need a galaxy that happens to be edge-on from where we are to afford us an end view . Like NGC 4710, recently imaged by the Hubble . telescope The wonderfully clear shots from the satellite have spurred renewed debate along the lines of What the

  • Gigantic Black Holes Hidden Near the Edges of the Early Universe

    Updated: 2009-11-26 08:56:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy IRIS Web's Most Awesome Acronym Internet Router in Space Main Mystery of X at the Center of Spiral Galaxies November 26, 2009 Gigantic Black Holes Hidden Near the Edges of the Early Universe NASA's James Webb Space Telescope , slated for launch in 2013, will help scientists to look back in time and hunt for the cocoon-like supermassive stars near the edges of the early universe , which would shine brightly in the near infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum . The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic , starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown . away Big black holes formed via these supermassive stars could have had a huge impact on the evolution of the universe , including galaxy formation , quot he said . Mitchell Begelman , a professor and the chair of University of Colorado-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary . sciences The predecessors to black hole formation , objects called supermassive stars , probably started forming within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang

  • Gamma Ray Bursts (from Earth!)

    Updated: 2009-11-26 08:18:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Image of the Day : The Festive Beauty of Molecular-Cloud Star Birth Main IRIS Web's Most Awesome Acronym Internet Router in Space November 26, 2009 Gamma Ray Bursts from Earth Scientists have discovered bursts of Gamma rays which occur about 3 million times per day or about 35 times a second Scientists detected long-lasting about 1 minute bursts of Gamma rays produced by electrons moving near the speed of light spiralling around the intense electrical fields produced by thunderstorms . The Gamma ray burst seen in the thunderstorms occurred about a minute before the lightning flash , meaning that perhaps the flash of Gamma rays could be used to indicate that a lightning strike is about to happen . 0160 Source Posted at 12:18 AM in Astronomy Permalink Email this post Show your . support Recommend this article Comments What's even more peculiar is that they've observed the characteristic gamma ray signature of electron-positron annihilation in some thunderstorms . So apparently , some storms have electric fields potent enough to cause pair production . oO Posted by : Qev November 26, 2009 at 08:16 AM After hearing

  • Image of the Day: The Festive Beauty of Molecular-Cloud Star Birth

    Updated: 2009-11-26 08:14:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy You Create the Caption Main Gamma Ray Bursts from Earth November 26, 2009 Image of the Day : The Festive Beauty of Molecular-Cloud Star Birth The X-ray image of the young molecular cloud complex obtained by the Chandra X-ray observatory shows the new star formation of W3 in the Perseus arm arm of the Milky Way arms of spiral galaxies are places full of gas and dust where new stars form . The image above is a composite X-ray image and optical image of the cluster.The X-ray image shows many hundreds of new stellar X-ray sources in the central part of W3 influenced by a nearby superbubble expanding into the W3 molecular cloud . 0160 Image Credit : Credit : NASA CXC Penn State L.Townsley et al . Optical : Pal Obs . DSS  Posted at 12:14 AM in Astronomy Permalink Email this post Show your . support Recommend this article Comments . Cool Posted by : Sancrows November 27, 2009 at 06:40 AM Is the truth birth of life Posted by : Miguel Agreda November 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM Post a comment If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account , please Sign In You are currently signed in as nobody Sign Out : Name Email Address : Not

  • Free "Babelfish" - iPhone Translation App (VIDEO Tour)

    Updated: 2009-11-26 08:03:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Hypernovas The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed Main The Daily Flash Eco , Space , Tech 11 26 November 26, 2009 Free Babelfish iPhone Translation App VIDEO Tour Posted at 12:03 AM Permalink Email this post Show your . support Recommend this article Comments Post a comment If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account , please Sign In You are currently signed in as nobody Sign Out : Name Email Address : Not displayed with comment . : URL Remember personal info : Comments TrackBack TrackBack URL for this : entry http : www.typepad.com services trackback 6a00d8341bf7f753ef012875d92fc8970c Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Free Babelfish iPhone Translation App VIDEO Tour Hypernovas The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed Main The Daily Flash Eco , Space , Tech 11 26 Our Partners Create Your iGoogle Galaxy Gadget Archives November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 About Us For more information on The Daily Galaxy and to contact us please visit this page

  • "Hypernovas" - The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed

    Updated: 2009-11-25 09:06:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Guide to Surviving the LHC-Restart Season Main Free Babelfish iPhone Translation App VIDEO Tour November 25, 2009 Hypernovas The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed Most astronomers today believe that one of the most plausible reasons we have yet to detect intelligent life in the universe is due to the deadly effects of local supernova explosions that wipe out all life in a given region of a . galaxy While there is , on average , only one supernova per galaxy per century , there is something on the order of 100 billion galaxies in the observable Universe . Taking 10 billion years for the age of the Universe it's actually 13.7 billion , but stars didn't form for the first few hundred million Dr . Richard Mushotzky of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , derived a figure of 1 billion supernovae per year , or  30 supernovae per second in the observable Universe Certain rare stars real killers type 11 stars , are core-collapse hypernova that generate deadly gamma ray bursts GRBs These long burst objects release 1000 times the non-neutrino energy release of an ordinary core-collapse supernova . Concrete

  • Image of the Day: "The Black Widow" Pulsar

    Updated: 2009-11-25 08:18:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Glowing Bacteria to Track Long Buried Landmines Main Guide to Surviving the LHC-Restart Season November 25, 2009 Image of the Day : The Black Widow Pulsar The pulsar , a.k.a . the Black Widow , quot is moving through the galaxy at a speed of almost a million kilometers per hour . A bow shock wave due to this motion is visible to optical telescopes , shown in this image as the greenish crescent shape . The pressure behind the bow shock creates a second shock wave that sweeps the cloud of high-energy particles back from the pulsar to form the . cocoon This composite X-ray red white and optical green blue image reveals an elongated cloud , or cocoon , of high-energy particles flowing behind the rapidly rotating pulsar , B1957+20 white point-like source The pulsar is emitting intense high-energy radiation that appears to be destroying a companion star through evaporation . It is one of a class of extremely rapid rotating neutron stars called millisecond pulsars . Calculations suggest that the black widow will evaporate away its companion in about a billion . years These objects are thought to be very old neutron

  • First neutrinos seen in new Japanese detector

    Updated: 2009-11-24 17:32:27
    Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan.

  • Image of the Day: "Red Dwarf Galaxy" -Could Earth's Twin Be Here?

    Updated: 2009-11-24 08:24:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Follow the Daily Galaxy Was Mars' Magnetic Field Destroyed by a Gigantic Asteroid Impact Main DEEP , DARK LIFE Marine Explorers Take Census of Extreme Species Living Beyond Sunlight November 24, 2009 Image of the Day : Red Dwarf Galaxy Could Earth's Twin Be Here We took poetic license and named today's image the Red Dwarf Galaxy . quot It's actual name is spiral galaxy NGC 5792 a typical spiral , almost edge-on , with blue spiral arms and some dust features , what is cool is its neighbor , a red dwarf that is actually part of the Milky Way . This M dwarfs are the most common type of star , making up about 75 of all stars in the Milky Way . 0160 Red dwarfs have been prime hunting grounds in the search for Earth's Twin . Extrasolar planets were discovered orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 581 in 2005, about the mass of Neptune , or sixteen Earth masses . It orbits just 6 million kilometers 0.04 AU from its star , and is estimated to have a surface temperature of 150 C , despite the dimness of the . star Credit : NASA Hubble Posted at 12:24 AM Permalink Email this post Show your . support Recommend this article Comments Daily Galaxy is full

  • First particles collide in the Large Hadron Collider

    Updated: 2009-11-23 19:39:28
    The first protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider today at CERN outside Geneva, Switzerland. The four largest detectors at the LHC all recorded collision events. Scientists at CERN, throughout the United States, and around the world celebrated the news.

  • The LHC’s next milestone – two simultaneous circulating beams

    Updated: 2009-11-23 15:01:19
    CERN's Director for Accelerators Steve Myers announced today that for the first time two beams are circulating simultaneously in the LHC. The announcement was made at a press conference held at the laboratory. The first individual circulating beams of 2009 were successfully established on Friday, November 20.

  • The Crab Nebula: A Cosmic Icon

    Updated: 2009-11-23 05:00:00
    Spectacular death of a star in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D.

  • 16-th International Seminar on High Energy Physics "Quarks-2010"

    Updated: 2009-11-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 6 Jun 2010 - 12 Jun 2010, Kolomna, Moscow region, Russian Federation. Organized by Institute for Nuclear Research RAS.

  • The Physics Inventory – November 20, 2009

    Updated: 2009-11-21 00:28:17
    What happened in physics this week. LHC first beams, nuclear dating leads to weddings, holes blocking light, quark news, muon colliders, and more.

  • LHC circulates first beams of 2009

    Updated: 2009-11-20 21:57:16
    CERN just issued a press release announcing the first circulating beams of 2009 in the Large Hadron Collider. At 10 o'clock this evening, CERN local time, the first beams circulated for several minutes in the clockwise direction. The LHC operations team is now working to circulate a beam in the counter-clockwise direction.

  • Your guide to following the progress of the LHC online

    Updated: 2009-11-20 20:30:12
    Scientists at CERN are in the process of restarting the Large Hadron Collider at this very moment! Here's a handy guide for following their minute-by-minute progress over the Internet.

  • NASA's Great Observatories Examine the Galactic Center Region

    Updated: 2009-11-10 05:00:00
    In this spectacular image, observations using infrared light and X-ray light see through the obscuring dust and reveal the intense activity near the galactic core.

  • Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record

    Updated: 2009-10-22 06:00:00
    The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered using Chandra and other telescopes.

  • Black Holes Go "Mano A Mano"

    Updated: 2009-10-06 06:00:00
    A galaxy about 330 million light years from Earth.

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