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Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:29 by Yasser Ali
Stephen Hawking failed to attend an event to celebrate his 70th birthday because of illness.
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Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:34 by NeelamGoswami
An international team of researchers have discovered a planet in a remote corner of our universe that is believed to be formed entirely of diamond.
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Mon, 06/06/2011 - 17:04 by Jamie Anderson
In a ground breaking achievement that may explain why the universe is composed of normal matter and not its opposite, a team of international researchers successfully trapped atoms of anti-hydrogen for close to 17 minutes.
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Thu, 05/26/2011 - 15:39 by Jaspreet Virk
Ever imagined what the universe looks like? Well, to help us understand better how far the universe stretches and who our cosmic neighbors are, British scientists have unveiled 3D map of the local universe.
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Thu, 11/25/2010 - 09:52 by Prince damin
Geneva, Switzerland -- European researchers at CERN's Large Hadron Collider say experiments show the very early universe was not only very hot and dense but behaved like a hot liquid.
By smashing lead nuclei together at high energies, they've generated incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs, recreating the conditions that existed in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, ScienceDaily.com reported.
Scientists say temperatures of over 10 trillion degrees are being created in these mini big bangs.
At these temperatures, normal matter is expected to melt into an exotic, primordial 'soup' known as quark-gluon plasma.
And scientists say their results suggest "melt" is the right word.
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Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:06 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- Allan R. Sandage, a prominent cosmologist who spent most of his career attempting to determine the precise age of the universe, has died in California.
Sandage, 84, died from pancreatic cancer at his home in San Gabriel, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
From the early 1950s, when he served as observing assistant to the famed astronomer Edwin Hubble at the Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories, Sandage single-mindedly sought the elusive Hubble constant, named after his mentor.
Hubble revolutionized astronomy with his discovery that the universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant is a measure of how long that expansion has been going on.
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Sat, 11/06/2010 - 11:59 by Ilan Moscovitz
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Thu, 10/21/2010 - 21:49 by Prince damin
Paris -- French scientists say they've confirmed the most distant astronomical object known, a galaxy 13.071 billion light-years away.
The galaxy, dubbed UDFy-38135539, is so far away the light now reaching Earth left it less than 600 million years after the Big Bang, ScienceNews.org reported.
Scientists at the Observatory of Paris studied images captured by the Hubble telescope to measure the galaxy's redshift -- the extent to which light emitted by a body is shifted to longer, or redder, wavelengths by the expansion of the universe -- to determine its distance.
The more distant a body, the greater its redshift.
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Thu, 10/14/2010 - 09:26 by Prince damin
Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. scientists say they may have evidence of the strangest structures believed to exist in the universe: ancient cosmic strings from the time of the Big Bang.
First predicted by astrophysicists in the 1970s, cosmic strings are believed to be enormous cosmic fault lines that formed billions of years ago just moments after the Big Bang when the universe was still an amorphous mass of hot matter, Inside Science New Service reported.
As different regions of the expanding universe cooled in different ways and at different rates, defects formed between the regions, like cracks in the ice on a frozen pond. These defects, scientists believe, were the cosmic strings.
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Thu, 08/26/2010 - 09:20 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- Giant halos of ultraviolet light around ancient galaxies have some U.S. scientists re-thinking the evolution of galaxies in the universe, they say.
The odd ultraviolet formations were spotted around several aged galaxies that astronomers had presumed to be astronomically inactive, SPACE.com reported Wednesday.
"We haven't seen anything quite like these rings before," researcher Michael Rich at the University of California, Los Angeles, said. "These beautiful and very unusual objects might be telling us something very important about the evolution of galaxies."
Astronomers looked at 30 "early" galaxies to try to find out why, though ancient and exhibiting now visible evidence of star formation, were emitting such energetic light.
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Thu, 08/12/2010 - 10:13 by Prince damin
Chicago -- U.S. physicists say they'll take their search to find and identify the universe's "dark matter" to new depths -- into a Canadian mine almost a mile underground.
University of Chicago researchers will take bubble chambers, instruments that can detect cosmic particles, to SNOLab, part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Canada, a university release said Wednesday.
They're hoping dark matter particles will leave tracks as they pass through the liquid in the chambers.
Dark matter accounts for almost 90 percent of all matter in the universe.
Invisible to telescopes, scientists assume its existence based on its gravitational influence on galaxies.
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Mon, 04/26/2010 - 10:38 by Priyanka
According to several news reports, world renowned British lecturer and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will soon be seen hosting a show called ‘Into the Universe” where he will discuss about the possibility of existence of aliens in the universe.
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