News tagged with cluster
Hubble provides new evidence for dark matter around small galaxies
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Peering into the tumultuous heart of the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, Hubble discovered a large population of small galaxies that have remained intact while larger galaxies around them are being ripped apart ...
A dead gene comes back to life in humans
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that a long-defunct gene was resurrected during the course of human evolution. This is believed to be the first evidence of a doomed gene - infection-fighting human ...
San Diego Supercomputer Center begins cloud computing research using the Google-IBM CluE cluster
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore new ways for academic researchers ...
ESA extends key missions studying Mars, Venus and Earth’s magnetosphere
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2009 |
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ESA’s Science Programme Committee has extended the operations of ESA’s Mars Express, Venus Express and Cluster missions until 31 December 2009.
Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(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 ...
PS3s help astrophysicists solve mystery of black hole vibrations
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using only the computing power of 16 Sony Playstation 3 gaming consoles, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have solved a ...
Depression rife among medical students
Dec 05, 2008 |
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Medical students frequently suffer from depression, especially during their internship years. New research published in the open access journal BMC Medical Education reveals the extent of the problem and features a detail ...
Omega Centauri -- The Glittering Giant of the Southern Skies
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Sparkling away at magnitude 3.7 and appearing nearly as large as the full moon on the southern night sky, Omega Centauri is visible with the unaided eye from a clear, dark observing site. Even through a modest ...
Searching for primordial antimatter
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis – left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ...
Cluster watches Earth's leaky atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2008 |
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Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth’s atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA’s formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns ...
A clash of clusters provides another clue to dark matter
Aug 27, 2008 |
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New Hubble and Chandra observations of the cluster known as MACSJ0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated dark from ordinary matter. This provides independent confirmation of a similar effect ...
XMM-Newton's massive discovery
Aug 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be ...
Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large
Aug 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? ...
Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy
Aug 20, 2008 |
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NGC 1275 is one of the closest giant elliptical galaxies and lies at the centre of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies. It is an active galaxy, hosting a supermassive black hole at its core, which blows bubbles ...
Oxygen therapy might ease pain of migraine, cluster headaches
Jul 16, 2008 |
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Two types of oxygen therapy could offer some relief to adults who suffer from disabling migraine and cluster headaches, according to a new research review from Australia.
