News articles tagged with 'Universe' (Page 2)
Wild 'teenage' galaxies booming with star births
— 13 Oct 2010 16:42 | AstronomyScientists from the Niels Bohr Institute have been studying distant galaxies, which are among the most active star-forming galaxies in the Universe. They form around 1,000 new stars…
NASA's Webb telescope MIRI instrument takes one step closer to space
— 2 Oct 2010 12:38 | AstronomyA major instrument due to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is getting its first taste of space in the test facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the…
Planck satellite finds new galaxy supercluster
— 17 Sep 2010 08:35 | AstronomySurveying the microwave sky, the Planck satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) has obtained qualitatively new images of galaxy clusters - even revealing one of them to be a previously…
Cluster turns the invisible into the visible
— 3 Sep 2010 10:52 | AstronomyCluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into…
Radio astronomers develop new technique for studying dark energy
— 22 Jul 2010 11:08 | AstronomyPioneering observations with the National Science Foundation's giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have given astronomers a new tool for mapping large cosmic structures.…
Planck unveils the Universe - now and then
— 5 Jul 2010 14:08 | AstronomyESA's Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came to life…
New 'fix' for cosmic clocks could help uncover ripples in space-time
— 25 Jun 2010 12:14 | AstronomyAn international team of scientists including University of British Columbia astronomer Ingrid Stairs has discovered a promising way to fine-tune pulsars into the best precision time-pieces…
'Ghost particle' sized up by cosmologists
— 24 Jun 2010 13:07 | AstronomyCosmologists at UCL (University College London) are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up…
Scientists focus on revealing hidden mysteries of the Universe
— 18 Jun 2010 13:44 | AstronomySecrets of the Universe are to be revealed as a new telescope equipped with the world's most powerful digital camera begins its observations of the night sky…
Durham astronomers' doubts about the dark side
— 14 Jun 2010 04:39 | AstronomyNew research by astronomers in the Physics Department at Durham University suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the Universe may be wrong. Graduate student Utane…