News articles tagged with 'Universe' (Page 14)
Research aims to make the first measurements on antimatter
— 18 Oct 2007 12:53 | PhysicsA Swansea University physicist is leading a project worth more than 835,000 GBP, which could change our understanding of the structure of the Universe. Professor Mike Charlton, who…
Galaxy hunting made easy
— 14 Sep 2007 17:24 | AstronomyAstronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered in a single pass about a dozen otherwise invisible galaxies halfway across the Universe. The discovery, based on a technique…
Thousands of schoolchildren worldwide map night skies
— 14 Sep 2007 17:24 | AstronomySchoolchildren, families, and citizen scientists around the world will gaze skyward after dark from 1 to 15 October, looking for specific constellations and then sharing their observations…
Astronomers find gaping hole in the Universe
— 24 Aug 2007 11:57 | AstronomyUniversity of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as…
HAWK-I takes off
— 23 Aug 2007 15:09 | AstronomyEurope's flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new 'eye' to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the new instrument - dubbed…
Cosmologists predict a static universe in 3 trillion years
— 24 May 2007 18:09 | AstronomyWhen Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter proposed a static model of the universe in the early 1900s, he was some 3 trillion years ahead of his time. Now, physicists Lawrence Krauss from…