News articles tagged with 'cosmic'
Swift survey finds 'missing' active galaxies
— 21 Jan 2011 20:17 | AstronomySeen in X-rays, the entire sky is aglow. Even far away from bright sources, X-rays originating from beyond our galaxy provide a steady glow in every direction. Astronomers have long…
Cosmology standard candle not so standard after all
— 18 Jan 2011 16:14 | AstronomyAstronomers have turned up the first direct proof that 'standard candles' used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard…
Planck unveils wonders of the Universe
— 11 Jan 2011 17:02 | AstronomyThe first scientific results from Europe's Planck spacecraft featuring the coldest objects in the Universe have today been released…
Young-star discovery hints magnetism common to all cosmic jets
— 26 Nov 2010 19:34 | AstronomyAstronomers have found the first evidence of a magnetic field in a jet of material ejected from a young star, a discovery that points toward future breakthroughs in understanding the…
Making stars: Studies show how cosmic dust and gas shape galaxy evolution
— 23 Nov 2010 18:50 | AstronomyAstronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it the universe would be devoid of stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable ingredient for…
Planet from another galaxy discovered
— 19 Nov 2010 11:14 | AstronomyOver the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none outside our Milky Way has been confirmed. Now, however, a planet…
UCI, other scientists find new galaxies through cosmic alignment
— 6 Nov 2010 16:15 | AstronomyUC Irvine astronomers, along with scientists across the globe, are discovering hundreds of new galaxies through brighter galaxies in front of them that deflect their faint light back…
Astrophysicists discover new galaxy clusters revealed by cosmic 'shadows'
— 2 Nov 2010 14:24 | AstronomyAn international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of the southern sky. The survey…
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…
Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy
— 18 Aug 2010 09:03 | AstronomyPhysicists from UCLA and Japan have discovered evidence of 'natural nuclear accelerators' at work in our Milky Way galaxy, based on an analysis of data from the world's largest cosmic…