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. (PhysOrg.com) -- Alien beings on faraway planets may not have noticed, but it`s been 35 years since human beings made the first deliberate effort to send them a message. http://www.physorg.com/news178304289.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:10:01 EST news178304289 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the reference frame scientists use to measure positions in the sky. The National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) will be a key part of the project. http://www.physorg.com/news177616748.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:10:01 EST news177616748 (PhysOrg.com) -- The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the Nebula is powered by a group of young massive stars, but behind it is a cluster of younger stars and clumps of gas. Still gathering together under gravity's pull, these gas clumps will eventually ignite into stars. http://www.physorg.com/news177602620.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:05:26 EST news177602620 (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 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 Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon. http://www.physorg.com/news172772441.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:10:05 EST news172772441 (PhysOrg.com) -- Our understanding of star formation leans heavily on observations of stars like the sun, namely, those that are modest in mass and that are born and evolve at a relatively leisurely pace. http://www.physorg.com/news172237617.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:50:14 EST news172237617 Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 pulsating neutron stars. Using the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite, the discoveries were made by conducting blind frequency searches on the sparse photon data provided by the LAT. http://www.physorg.com/news171714615.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:40:02 EST news171714615 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun's gravity, and their technique promises a major contribution to a frontier area of basic physics. http://www.physorg.com/news171028283.html Physics Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:52:11 EST news171028283 (PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy's long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO`s Parkes radio telescope. http://www.physorg.com/news170429814.html Space & Earth Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:37:35 EST news170429814 Scientists from NRL's Space Science and Remote Sensing Divisions, in collaboration with researchers from the University of New Mexico and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory located in Socorro, N.M., have generated the first scientific results from the Long Wavelength Demonstrator Array (LWDA). The measurements were obtained during field tests and calibration of two prototype antennas for the much larger Long Wavelength Array (LWA), which will eventually consist of nearly 13,000 similar antennas. http://www.physorg.com/news169827559.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:20:06 EST news169827559 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists in Australia and the United States, led by Associate Professor Miroslav Filipović from the University of Western Sydney, have discovered a new class of object which they call `Super Planetary Nebulae.` They report their work in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news169477900.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:13:22 EST news169477900 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive black hole at its core. The discovery provides important new information about the mysterious workings of the powerful "engines" in the centers of innumerable galaxies throughout the Universe. http://www.physorg.com/news165763462.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:24:43 EST news165763462 Radio astronomers have directly measured the distance to a faraway galaxy, providing a valuable "yardstick" for calibrating large astronomical distances and demonstrating a vital method that could help determine the elusive nature of the mysterious Dark Energy that pervades the Universe. http://www.physorg.com/news163682693.html Space & Earth Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:25:20 EST news163682693 Vast quantities of data are transferred in real time from telescopes around the world to a supercomputer in the Netherlands, where European researchers combine the information to create high-resolution images of distant objects in space. http://www.physorg.com/news163681860.html Space & Earth Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:11:19 EST news163681860 (PhysOrg.com) -- With commissioning of the 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) nearly complete, UC Berkeley astronomers are now embarking on several major radio astronomy projects, including daily surveys of the sky. http://www.physorg.com/news162747980.html Space & Earth Thu, 28 May 2009 16:47:24 EST news162747980 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have observed a singular cosmic act of rebirth: the transformation of an ordinary, slow-rotating pulsar into a superfast millisecond pulsar with an almost infinitely extended lifespan. http://www.physorg.com/news162134312.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 May 2009 14:19:34 EST news162134312 The SETI@home project, which has involved the worldwide public in a search for radio-wave evidence of life outside Earth, marks its 10th anniversary on May 17, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news160402800.html Space & Earth Fri, 01 May 2009 13:20:54 EST news160402800 An international team of astronomers has used the world's biggest radio telescope to look deep into the brightest galaxies that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can see. The study solidifies the link between an active galaxy's gamma-ray emissions and its powerful radio-emitting jets. http://www.physorg.com/news159639919.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:25:56 EST news159639919 Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the project and donated time on their computers to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars. http://www.physorg.com/news157113935.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:45:58 EST news157113935 (PhysOrg.com) -- Radio telescopes around the world will join forces this week to carry out a unique observation of three quasars, distant galaxies powered by super-massive black holes at their cores. http://www.physorg.com/news151078629.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:17:09 EST news151078629 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our understanding of how these stellar cinders work. http://www.physorg.com/news150483177.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:52:57 EST news150483177 (PhysOrg.com) -- The center of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there. The galactic center is wracked with powerful gravitational tides stirred by a 4 million solar-mass black hole. Those tides should rip apart molecular clouds that act as stellar nurseries, preventing stars from forming in place. Yet the alternative - stars falling inward after forming elsewhere - should be a rare occurrence. http://www.physorg.com/news150383551.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:12:31 EST news150383551