The best map yet of light from the infant universe seems to rule out the strange motion of galaxy clusters, knocking down one sign of a multiverse Original post on newscientist.com Comments on reddit.com
Engineers begin a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider which could lead the way to a new theory of how the Universe works. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
The Universe is a wee bit older than we thought. Not only that, but turns out the ingredients are a little bit different, too. And not only that, but the way they’re mixed isn’t quite what we expected, either. And not only that, but there are hints and whispers of… Original post on slate.com Comments on reddit.com
PARIS — New results from a look into the split second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older than previously thought but the core concepts of the cosmos — how it began, what it’s made of and where it’s going — seem to be on the right track. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Is the Universe fine-tuned for life? A team of physicists is looking at the conditions necessary to the formation of carbon and oxygen two elements in the universe that are the foundation of life as we currently know it. They’ve… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on reddit.com
An old star gets a little younger. Original post on sciencerecorder.com Comments on reddit.com
By Irene Klotz BOSTON (Reuters) – Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year’s discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but add up the numbers and it’s not looking good for the future of the universe, scientists said Monday. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
(PhysOrg.com) — Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe? Original post on phys.org Comments on reddit.com
NASA has joined ESA’s mission to photograph two billion galaxies. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA has officially joined the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission, a space telescope that will launch in 2020 to study the mysterious dark matter and dark energy pervading the universe. Original post on space.com Comments on reddit.com
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 01/16/2013 07:09 AM EST on SPACE.com The Hubble Space Telescope’s iconic “Deep Field” photo wowed the world in 1996 by revealing a huge collection of galaxies hiding inside a patch of the sky that looked like nothing more than blank space. Now NASA plans to image six more “empty” bits of sky for a whole new set of deep fields that could revolutionize astronomy once again. Hubble captured the Deep Field by staring at the same point over many hours, letting particles of light from extremely distant objects slowly pile up to reveal celestial bodies that would otherwise be too faint to see. Since the original photo’s release, Hubble looked even longer at the same spot to create the “Ultra Deep Field” in 2004 and then the “eXtreme Deep Field” in 2012. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
The largest known structure in the universe has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The large quasar group (LQG -a portion shown above)) is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on reddit.com
It sounds like a contradiction in terms but scientists have reached temperatures that go beyond absolute zero in a lab, and get hotter as they do so. Original post on tgdaily.com Comments on reddit.com
Hubble Comes Close to Spying First Stars – ScienceNOW Original post on sciencemag.org Comments on reddit.com
Peering deep into the past, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than three… Original post on tgdaily.com Comments on reddit.com
Seven primitive and distant galaxies observed in Hubble image. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
US scientists are attempting to find out whether all of humanity is currently living a Matrix-style computer simulation being run on supercomputers of the future. Original post on techeye.net Comments on reddit.com
Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to prevent the obscure sector from triggering a new financial crisis. But in doing so they risk drying up an important source of funding to banks and firms. Original post on spiegel.de Comments on reddit.com
An international team of astronomers has published a new study suggesting that nearly all of the stars that will ever exist in our universe have in fact already been born. Original post on time.com Comments on reddit.com
If the cosmos is a numerical simulation, there ought to be clues in the spectrum of high energy cosmic rays, say theorists Original post on technologyreview.com Comments on reddit.com
Ten years’ worth of data went into compiling the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, the deepest view of our universe ever created. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on reddit.com
Stars crowd together into galaxies, galaxies assemble into clusters, and clusters amass to form superclusters. Astronomers, probing ever-larger volumes of the cosmos, have been surprised again and again to find matter clustering on ever-larger scales. This Russian-nesting-doll-like distribution of matter has led them to wonder whether the universe is a fractal: a mathematical object that looks the same at any scale, whether you zoom in or out. Original post on msn.com Comments on reddit.com
Scientists at the Scientific Research Centre Bistra in Ptuj, Slovenia, have theorized that the Newtonian idea of time as an absolute quantity that flows on its own, along with the idea that time is the fourth dimension of spacetime, are… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
If you’d asked Emily Dickenson this question, she would have told you that Original post on io9.com Comments on digg.com
Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape that is now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud roughly 500 times the diameter of our Solar System popularly known as the Ring Nebula… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed. In findings reported July 19 in the journal Nature, the astronomers said they discovered it while using… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
