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. At a very early age, children learn how to classify objects according to their shape. Now, new research suggests studying the shape of the aftermath of supernovas may allow astronomers to do the same. http://www.physorg.com/news180269012.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:44:41 EST news180269012 An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun. http://www.physorg.com/news179072298.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:10:02 EST news179072298 (PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system. http://www.physorg.com/news177927581.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:20:02 EST news177927581 Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. http://www.physorg.com/news175948336.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:32:48 EST news175948336 Less than two months after they inaugurated the world's largest telescope, University of Florida astronomers have used one of the world's most advanced telescopic instruments to gather images of the heavens. http://www.physorg.com/news172248026.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:50:02 EST news172248026 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project - a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile - has just been released online. The project allows stargazers to explore and experience the Universe as it is seen with the unaided eye from the darkest and best viewing locations in the world. http://www.physorg.com/news172144911.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:02:20 EST news172144911 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Hawaii (UH) astronomer Dr. Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant that it is seen as it was 12.8 billion years ago, is as large as the Milky Way galaxy and harbours a supermassive black hole that contains at least a billion times as much matter as our Sun. The scientists set out their results in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society later this month. http://www.physorg.com/news171105318.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:15:45 EST news171105318 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken its first shots of the cosmos since warming up and starting its second career. The infrared telescope ran out of coolant on May 15, 2009, more than five-and-half-years after launch, and has since warmed to a still-frosty 30 Kelvin (about minus 406 Fahrenheit). http://www.physorg.com/news168698098.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:20:01 EST news168698098 We live in a hierarchical Universe where small structures join into larger ones. Earth is a planet in our Solar System, the Solar System resides in the Milky Way Galaxy, and galaxies combine into groups and clusters. Clusters are the largest structures in the Universe, but sadly our knowledge of them is not proportional to their size. Researchers have long known that the gas in the centers of some galaxy clusters is rapidly cooling and condensing, but were puzzled why this condensed gas did not form into stars. Until recently, no model existed that successfully explained how this was possible. http://www.physorg.com/news166793207.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:27:35 EST news166793207 A team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable "dark matter" believed to make up much of the mass of the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news166356300.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:05:40 EST news166356300 Penn State astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new image of a ghostly exploded star with an unusual shape in a galaxy near the Milky Way. Astronomers think the object may be the remains of a white-dwarf star that disintegrated in a thermonuclear explosion, known as a Type Ia supernova, but it does not look like other likely Type ia remnants found in our own Milky Way galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news164425176.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:20:01 EST news164425176 Although engineers, scientists and manufacturers are still in the process of building all of the instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they had to figure out long ago, how it was going to "unfold" in space. That's because the Webb Telescope is so big that it has to be folded up for launch. Now, animators have made that "unfolding" come to life in two new videos. http://www.physorg.com/news161446078.html Space & Earth Wed, 13 May 2009 15:08:31 EST news161446078 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered streams of young stars flowing from their natal cocoons in distant galaxies. These distant rivers of stars provide an answer to one of astronomy's most fundamental puzzles: how do young stars that form clustered together in dense clouds of dust and gas disperse to form the large, smooth distribution seen in the disks of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way? http://www.physorg.com/news160410037.html Space & Earth Fri, 01 May 2009 15:20:59 EST news160410037 NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news159110447.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:21:49 EST news159110447 A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own Milky Way Galaxy) began their formation and evolution shortly after the Big Bang, some 13 billion years ago. Further research into the nature of these objects could open new windows into the study of the origin and early evolution of galaxies. http://www.physorg.com/news158585134.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:26:04 EST news158585134 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news158427654.html Space & Earth Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:41:43 EST news158427654 When NASA's Kepler telescope rocketed into the night sky last week, two Berkeley astronomers watching its fading contrail were hoping that the telescope will reveal Earth's - and humanity's - place in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news156101002.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:24:13 EST news156101002 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news156100255.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:11:27 EST news156100255 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Kepler spacecraft and its Delta II rocket are "go" for a launch tonight that is expected to light up the sky along Florida's Space Coast at 10:49 p.m. EST as the rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Weather predictions remain good, with a 95 percent chance of favorable conditions at launch time and a temperature of 64 degrees. http://www.physorg.com/news155568810.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:33:57 EST news155568810 (PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Kepler telescope rockets into the night sky on Friday, March 6, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers - key members of the Kepler team - will be watching its fading contrail, hoping that the telescope will reveal Earth's and humanity's place in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news155401559.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:07:52 EST news155401559 NASA has awarded Clemson astronomers $244,000 to use data from several space-based gamma-ray telescopes to study a mysterious emission coming from the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news154008823.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:14:49 EST news154008823 (PhysOrg.com) -- Processes that laid the foundation for life on Earth -- star and planet formation and the production of complex organic molecules in interstellar space -- are yielding their secrets to astronomers armed with powerful new research tools, and even better tools soon will be available. Astronomers described three important developments at a symposium on the "Cosmic Cradle of Life" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, IL. http://www.physorg.com/news153679446.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:45:40 EST news153679446 (PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected. http://www.physorg.com/news150569765.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:56:05 EST news150569765 (PhysOrg.com) -- A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. It might represent an entirely new class of stellar phenomena that has previously gone undetected in the universe, say researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news150472724.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:58:44 EST news150472724 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fasten your seat belts -- we're faster, heavier, and more likely to collide than we thought. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating about 100,000 miles per hour faster than previously understood. http://www.physorg.com/news150384799.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:33:19 EST news150384799