News tagged with expansion of universe
Radio telescopes extend astronomy's best 'yardstick'
Jun 08, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Voiding the Cosmic Void: We're not at Center of the Universe After All
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Models of the universe that place us near the center of a large, sparse region don't jibe with astronomical observations. Cosmologists at the University of British Columbia reached the conclusion through a new analysis that ...
How did the universe begin?
Jun 24, 2008 |
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One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the subject, with different theories about how the universe began, ...
Throwing light on the dark side of the Universe
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Although we may believe humans know a lot about the Universe, there are still a lot of phenomena to be explained. A team of cosmologists from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, are searching for the model that best ...
Texas School Standards: Age of the Universe Erased
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fight over the new education and curriculum standards for the public schools in Texas has been long and publicized. Most of the publicity, though, focuses on the school board's focus on ...
Dirty Space and Supernovae
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Interstellar space may be strewn with tiny whiskers of carbon, dimming the light of far-away objects. This discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution may have implications for the “dark energy” hypothesis, proposed ...
Dark energy may be vacuum
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have brought us one step closer to understanding what the universe is made of. As part of the international collaboration ESSENCE ...
New Light on Dark Energy
Jan 30, 2008 |
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Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution and motions of thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. This opens fascinating perspectives to better understand what drives ...
Super-computer could throw light on 'mysterious' dark energy
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Cosmologists have run a series of huge computer simulations of the Universe that could ultimately help solve the mystery of dark energy.
Galactic Colonization Limited By The Inability To Expand Exponentially
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 50 years, many have taken the so-called Fermi Paradox to indicate that the existence of intelligent alien civilizations is an impossibility. However, a recent re-examination ...
Is the Universe stuck in a Groundhog Day?
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The idea of a cyclical universe is controversial but a leading researcher believes we really could be stuck in a never-ending loop. Speaking at the Institute of Physics conference Physics 2005, Professor Paul Steinhardt presented ...
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