http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. No place seems safe from the prying eyes of inquisitive astronomers. They've traced the evolution of the universe back to the "Big Bang," the theoretical birth of the cosmos 13.7 billion years ago, but there's still a long stretch of time -- about 800 million years -- that's been hidden from view. http://www.physorg.com/news174847728.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:20:01 EST news174847728 Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star. If placed in our own solar system, the disk would span about four times Earth's distance from the sun, reaching nearly to Jupiter's orbit. The compact inner disk is accompanied by an outer disk that extends hundreds of times farther. http://www.physorg.com/news173028897.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:10:02 EST news173028897 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were almost completely flat, but new images reveal the heights of some newly discovered bumps in the rings are as high as the Rocky Mountains. NASA released the images Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news172773062.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:20:01 EST news172773062 Ninjas knew how to be stealthy: Be dark. Emit very little light. Move in the shadows between bright places. http://www.physorg.com/news172342922.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:40:13 EST news172342922 Astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Hawaii have discovered multiple fragments ejected during the largest cometary outburst ever witnessed. Images and animations showing fragments rapidly flying away from the nucleus of comet 17P/Holmes will be presented by Rachel Stevenson at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany, on Wednesday 16 September. http://www.physorg.com/news172306060.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:20:01 EST news172306060 (PhysOrg.com) -- A star does not die without getting noticed and may even leave the universe with "fireworks." At the end of its life cycle, a star begins to collapse in the middle and throws new material into space. The new material eventually becomes incorporated into new planets and life. Now, a University of Missouri professor identified new features in the material that is being ejected from the dying star Helix Nebula. http://www.physorg.com/news167317412.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:50:08 EST news167317412 (AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice. http://www.physorg.com/news156870658.html Space & Earth Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:11:35 EST news156870658 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun. http://www.physorg.com/news156440810.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:47:43 EST news156440810 Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock band Queen, earned his PhD in astronomy last year from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud has just been co-published by Springer and Canopus Publishing Ltd. http://www.physorg.com/news136736258.html Space & Earth Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:17:38 EST news136736258