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Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group. http://www.physorg.com/news175787311.html Physics Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:01 EST news175787311 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of supermassive black holes has discovered the entropy of the universe is much greater than previously thought, which means it may also be very slightly closer to ultimate heat death. http://www.physorg.com/news174032146.html Physics Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:10:01 EST news174032146 A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist. http://www.physorg.com/news176389334.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:02:40 EST news176389334 Will the universe expand outward for all of eternity and end in a vast, dark, cold, sterile, diffuse nothingness? Or will the `Big Bang` - the gargantuan explosion that formed the universe 14 billion years ago - end in the `Big Crunch?` Planets, stars and galaxies all hurtle inward and collapse into an incredibly hot, dense mass a billion times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. And then … KA-BOOOOM!!! Another Big Bang and another universe forms and hurtles outward, eventually leading to new iterations of the Sun, the Earth, and you? http://www.physorg.com/news169481109.html Physics Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:00:02 EST news169481109 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental research in cosmology continues to disclose ever more mysteries of the first millennia of the universe. More detailed knowledge will be delivered by the recently launched Planck Satellite which will measure the microwave background - the so-called echo of the Big Bang. How can we expose the broader public to the complex physics of the early universe? In the "International Year of Astronomy" (2009) the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA, Germany) tries an unusual experiment: a comic on the Internet about the physical processes that took place during the first 400,000 years after the Big Bang. http://www.physorg.com/news168698892.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:10:01 EST news168698892 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool are constructing highly sensitive detectors as part of an international project to understand the elements that make up the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news168770462.html Physics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:10:01 EST news168770462 (PhysOrg.com) -- The distant past of the universe is moving closer. Astronomers are using special spectrographs to investigate galaxies in the depths of the universe as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. The instruments are very sensitive to infrared light and can even detect very distant galaxies whose light is shifted towards the long-wavelength, red region of the spectrum as a result of the cosmic expansion. The astrophysicists hope that the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) will record the spectra of 1.4 million galaxies and 160,000 quasars by 2014. http://www.physorg.com/news174669985.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:40:01 EST news174669985 (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past few decades, the idea that our universe could be one of many alternate universes within a giant multiverse has grown from a sci-fi fantasy into a legitimate theoretical possibility. Several theories of physics and astronomy have hypothesized the existence of a multiverse made of many parallel universes. One obvious question that arises, then, is exactly how many of these parallel universes might there be. http://www.physorg.com/news174921612.html Physics Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:20:53 EST news174921612 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. Developed and built at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., COBE precisely measured and mapped the oldest light in the universe -- the cosmic microwave background. http://www.physorg.com/news177700984.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:50:13 EST news177700984 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the Universe -- a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). http://www.physorg.com/news175958564.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:23:39 EST news175958564 (PhysOrg.com) -- Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per hour, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way. http://www.physorg.com/news168698290.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:38:47 EST news168698290 Is there life on other planets? The Vatican has asked that age-old question over the past five days during a "study week" on astrobiology gathering leading scientists from around the world. http://www.physorg.com/news177083464.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:10:05 EST news177083464 The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe. http://www.physorg.com/news169480332.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:52:30 EST news169480332 (PhysOrg.com) -- A study published this week in the journal Nature offers an explanation for the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The research may settle an outstanding puzzle in understanding galaxy formation. http://www.physorg.com/news168095945.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:20:01 EST news168095945 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world, is the first observation of such a prominent galaxy structure in the distant Universe, providing further insight into the cosmic web and how it formed. http://www.physorg.com/news176449128.html Space & Earth Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:40:02 EST news176449128