• "Survivor" Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized

    Updated: 2010-04-29 22:28:07
    This composite image of M82 shows Chandra X-ray Observatory data in blue, optical data from Hubble in green and orange, and infrared data from Spitzer in red.

  • Supernova Mystery: The Massive Runaway Star from 1572 A.D. Explosion

    Updated: 2010-04-29 14:27:24
    An international team of astronomers in 2004 identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and other astronomers of that era. The discovery provided the... </div

  • Image of the Day: The Turbulent Beauty of the Orion Nebula

    Updated: 2010-04-29 14:27:23
    The Orion Nebula is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. Astronomers have observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. The nebual has odd supersonic "bullets" of gas each...

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-04-29 14:27:20

  • The Daily "140" Twitter Quote

    Updated: 2010-04-29 14:27:19
    "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." Lily Tomlin -Comedian and philosopher.

  • FYI: By Popular Request, We've Hired a World-class Copy Editor

    Updated: 2010-04-29 14:27:18
    To our long-suffering readers: Alexis Cook, copy editor formerly with the BBC, starts at The Daily Galaxy tomorrow. No more typos or tortured grammar (Well, maybe some, here and there just to keep things interesting). Image credit: Our thanks to...

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

    Updated: 2010-04-29 07:12:00
    Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

  • April 2010 issue of symmetry now online

    Updated: 2010-04-29 06:26:42
    In this issue we outline a desperate shortage of accelerator scientists; walk you through the process of making a discovery at the Large Hadron Collider; and debut an original science-fiction story written especially for SLAC.

  • Dark Matters

    Updated: 2010-04-29 06:26:42
    Initial 2010 data from the Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill indicates that the particle theory job market remains as trend-driven as ever. This year, it seems that if you want a tenure-track job in the US, you must be working on phenomenology. And not just any sort of phenomenology, your work has [...]

  • 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress incorporating the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology

    Updated: 2010-04-29 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 5 Dec 2010 - 9 Dec 2010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Organized by Australian Institute of Physics / Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology / Australian Optical Society.

  • Space Station Search for Anti-Matter to Go Live

    Updated: 2010-04-28 18:16:33
    A scheduled July mission by space shuttle Endeavor has been delayed until November so that NASA scientists can make changes designed to extend the lifespan of the onboard Alpha Magnetic Spectometer (AMS). The September 30 Discovery mission, which will see...

  • ET Technonolgy Could Be Totally "Weird" Says One of World's Leading Experts

    Updated: 2010-04-28 18:16:31
    Quantum mechanics underlies many of the most revolutionary discoveries and principles of human technology, from the big bang to the laser, to the transistor to superconducting magnets used at CERNs LHC. Extraterrestrial technology more advanced than ours might manifest itself...

  • Image of the Day: Mystery of Star Formation Revealed for First Time

    Updated: 2010-04-28 18:16:28
    New images from ESA's Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in our Galaxy. Where earth-bound optical telescopes see only black space,...

  • The Universe is Not a Black Hole

    Updated: 2010-04-28 17:13:51
    People sometimes ask, “Is the universe a black hole?” Or worse, they claim: “The universe is a black hole!” No, it’s not, and it’s worth getting this one straight. If there’s any quantitative reasoning behind the question (or claim), it comes from comparing the amount of matter within the observable universe to the radius [...]

  • DYNAFLOW, INC.

    Updated: 2010-04-28 15:27:30
    DYNAFLOW provides R&D services and products in fluid dynamics and material sciences. As a leader in bubble dynamics, cavitation and erosion dynamics, DYNAFLOW, serves the marine, energy, environmental, chemical, biomedical and agriculture industries.

  • Nanjing Dreams Laser Machinery&Equipment Co.,Ltd.

    Updated: 2010-04-28 15:27:10
    The Dreams is a professional laser applications to provide solutions to high-tech enterprises.It is a research and development, production, sales and service for a modern large-scale laser equipment business.

  • Nyfors Teknologi AB

    Updated: 2010-04-28 15:26:46
    Nyfors Teknologi AB develops and manufactures systems for preparation and testing in the field of fiber optic fusion splicing. Our products includes manual and automated systems for stripping, cleaving, recoating and proof-testing and fiber testing.

  • 20/20 FPD™ microspectrophotometer

    Updated: 2010-04-28 11:54:47
    The 20/20 FPD is designed for optical metrology of flat panel displays. Colorimetry and relative intensity of even sub-pixel areas can be done on everything from the latest OLEDs to microdisplays.

  • DR-BDT12D Semiconductor End-Pump Laser Marking Machine

    Updated: 2010-04-28 11:54:36
    Maximum laser power: 12W Laser wavelength: 1064nm Beam quality M2:

  • New Galaxy Cluster Is Farthest Ever Discovered

    Updated: 2010-04-27 17:56:33
    “It is as if a timeline is just sitting out there in front of you. These galaxies represent what the universe looked like well before the Earth existed.” Jeff Cooke, a McCue Postdoctoral Fellow in physics and astronomy at University...

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2010-04-27 17:56:25

  • A Moment of Zen: "Our Place in the Cosmos"

    Updated: 2010-04-27 17:56:24

  • A long-lost object on the Moon will help test general relativity

    Updated: 2010-04-27 05:46:24
    In 1971, a Soviet moon lander called Lunokhod 1 sent its last signal back to Earth. Since that time, scientists have been keeping an eye out for it but not had any luck. Now, says a press release from the University of California, San Diego, the lander has been found, and a simple but important piece of cargo on it is intact.

  • From dust to stars

    Updated: 2010-04-27 05:37:09
    We’re all waiting for the Planck map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which should become the definitive map of the early Universe for the foreseeable future. While we’re on tenterhooks, the Planck team has been feeding us tidbits to keep us occupied. The first was a gorgeous map of the dust. Now they’ve released [...]

  • Wanna routinely win March Madness? Bet on science

    Updated: 2010-04-21 03:46:24
    When most people think of March Madness, they think of precision and brawn. But they ought to throw brains into that list. An analysis of the NCAA basketball championship shows that universities that participate in the QuarkNet particle physics outreach program outperform the others in the basketball.

  • Neutrinos: Clues to the most energetic cosmic rays

    Updated: 2010-04-20 03:26:21
    We’re constantly being peppered by showers of debris from cosmic rays colliding with atoms in the atmosphere. Cosmic rays aren’t actually rays, of course, they’re particles; ninety percent are protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, and most of the rest are heavier nuclei like iron. Some originate from our own sun but most come from farther off, from the Milky Way or beyond.

  • Dark Matter: Can you hear me now?

    Updated: 2010-04-17 02:26:09
    Pockets of dark matter litter roughly 25 percent of the universe like patches of static you hit while surfing the radio dial: definitely there but of unclear origin. Through a process of elimination, Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics collaborators say they have found a way to use sound to tune in dark matter passing through [...]

  • Einstein’s theory fights off challengers

    Updated: 2010-04-16 02:06:05
    Two new and independent studies have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test like never before. These results show Einstein's theory is still the best game in town.

  • Giant natural particle accelerator discovered above thunderclouds

    Updated: 2010-04-16 02:06:04
    A lightning researcher has discovered that during thunderstorms, giant natural particle accelerators can form 40 km above the surface of the Earth. His findings show that when particularly intense lightning discharges in thunderstorms coincide with high-energy particles coming in from space (cosmic rays), nature provides the right conditions to form a giant particle accelerator above the thunderclouds.

  • Einstein's Theory Fights off Challengers

    Updated: 2010-04-15 01:46:04
    Two different teams have reported using Chandra observations of galaxy clusters to study the properties of gravity on cosmic scales and test Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

  • A Tear at the Edge of Creation

    Updated: 2010-04-12 00:45:41
    There’s a new book out this week by Marcelo Gleiser, entitled A Tear at the Edge of Creation. Gleiser blogs at the NPR site 13.7, and that site also has a review of the book from his fellow blogger Adam Frank. Gleiser started out his professional life as a string theorist, enchanted by the prospect [...]

  • Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

    Updated: 2010-04-12 00:45:28
    A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star.

  • Winds of Change: How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies

    Updated: 2010-04-08 11:55:07
    This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole.

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