Universe
GLAST renamed Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
By: William Atkins
NASA announced in February 2008 that it was holding a contest to re-name its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. The new name—Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope—was announced by NASA in August 2008 to honor Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954).
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By: William Atkins
NASA announced in February 2008 that it was holding a contest to re-name its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. The new name—Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope—was announced by NASA in August 2008 to honor Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954).
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Largest galactic cluster discovered: explained with dark energy
By: William Atkins
European astronomers state that 2XMM J083026+524133 has been located about 7.7 billion light-years from our solar system. They contend that its existence can only be explained through dark energy.
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By: William Atkins
European astronomers state that 2XMM J083026+524133 has been located about 7.7 billion light-years from our solar system. They contend that its existence can only be explained through dark energy.
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North Star dims for a century, suddenly gets brighter
By: William Atkins
After about one hundred years of growing increasingly dimmer, the North Star (Polaris), according to international astronomers, is now growing brighter. Why it’s happening is a mystery to astronomers.
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By: William Atkins
After about one hundred years of growing increasingly dimmer, the North Star (Polaris), according to international astronomers, is now growing brighter. Why it’s happening is a mystery to astronomers.
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ABC NewsRadio axes StarStuff program – why?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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Galaxies could be twice as bright if not for a lot of dust
By: William Atkins
According to U.K., German, and Australian astronomers, the brightness of galaxies is really twice as bright as they appear at Earth because of extra-large amounts of interstellar dust blocking the light between them and us.
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By: William Atkins
According to U.K., German, and Australian astronomers, the brightness of galaxies is really twice as bright as they appear at Earth because of extra-large amounts of interstellar dust blocking the light between them and us.
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Microsoft announces May 2008 startup of WorldWide Telescope
By: William Atkins
Microsoft chairman William “Bill” Gates announces that the computer software program WorldWide Telescope will be available free to Internet users by the end of May 2008. Gates calls it "an observatory on your desktop."
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By: William Atkins
Microsoft chairman William “Bill” Gates announces that the computer software program WorldWide Telescope will be available free to Internet users by the end of May 2008. Gates calls it "an observatory on your desktop."
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18-year-old Hubble takes 59 images of colliding galaxies
By: William Atkins
NASA/ESA just released fifty-nine images of colliding galaxies taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. The images are now available, as of April 24, 2008, the eighteen-year anniversary of the launching of the Hubble by NASA’s space shuttle Discovery.
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By: William Atkins
NASA/ESA just released fifty-nine images of colliding galaxies taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. The images are now available, as of April 24, 2008, the eighteen-year anniversary of the launching of the Hubble by NASA’s space shuttle Discovery.
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Australia hopeful of radio telescope Square Kilometer Array
By: William Atkins
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is a major proposed telescope project that will scan the skies in the light and radio range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is designed to offer a large collecting area of about one square kilometer (and, thus, its name). Western Australia, a prime radio wave observing site, is pursuing the desired location of the SKA telescope.
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By: William Atkins
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is a major proposed telescope project that will scan the skies in the light and radio range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is designed to offer a large collecting area of about one square kilometer (and, thus, its name). Western Australia, a prime radio wave observing site, is pursuing the desired location of the SKA telescope.
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NASA’s WMAP space probe says universe is 13.73 billion years old
By: William Atkins
The NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrpy Probe (WMAP) analyzed the cosmic microwave background radiation, which was left over from the Big Bang, to find the most precise age of the universe yet measured: 13.73 billion years.
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By: William Atkins
The NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrpy Probe (WMAP) analyzed the cosmic microwave background radiation, which was left over from the Big Bang, to find the most precise age of the universe yet measured: 13.73 billion years.
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Gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B sets new space record
By: William Atkins
It’s amazing but if you happened to have been looking up in the night sky in the direction of the constellation Boötes at 2:12 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (0612 UTC) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, you could have seen with your naked eyes the brightest explosion of a star that ever occurred.
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By: William Atkins
It’s amazing but if you happened to have been looking up in the night sky in the direction of the constellation Boötes at 2:12 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (0612 UTC) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, you could have seen with your naked eyes the brightest explosion of a star that ever occurred.
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Western Australia Govt pumps A$20m into star trek
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A journey through the stars, via ground based radio astronomy? That’s the WA Govt’s plan, with a $20m package to boost their chances of winning the A$2 billion ‘Square Kilometre Array’.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A journey through the stars, via ground based radio astronomy? That’s the WA Govt’s plan, with a $20m package to boost their chances of winning the A$2 billion ‘Square Kilometre Array’.
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NASA sends The Beatles “on and on across the universe”
By: William Atkins
On January 31, 2008, NASA announced that its Deep Space Network will beam The Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” into outer space at 7 p.m. EST on Monday, February 4, 2008. You can join in on the celebration!
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By: William Atkins
On January 31, 2008, NASA announced that its Deep Space Network will beam The Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” into outer space at 7 p.m. EST on Monday, February 4, 2008. You can join in on the celebration!
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Astronomers hit Einsteinian jackpot
By: William Atkins
An international team of scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a never-before-seen double Einstein ring. The important discovery helps astronomers learn more about dark matter, dark energy, and curved space of the universe.
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By: William Atkins
An international team of scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a never-before-seen double Einstein ring. The important discovery helps astronomers learn more about dark matter, dark energy, and curved space of the universe.
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U.S. advisors pit evolution against intelligent design
By: William Atkins
Scientific advisers to the U.S. government have released the third edition of the book “Science, Evolution, and Creationism,” which emphasizes the importance of teaching evolution in public schools. It adds controversy as to what should be taught as science.
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By: William Atkins
Scientific advisers to the U.S. government have released the third edition of the book “Science, Evolution, and Creationism,” which emphasizes the importance of teaching evolution in public schools. It adds controversy as to what should be taught as science.
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Thirty Meter Telescope gets $200 million boost
By: William Atkins
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave the University of California and the California Institute of Technology a commitment of $200 million for future development and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
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By: William Atkins
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave the University of California and the California Institute of Technology a commitment of $200 million for future development and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
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Will NASA launch Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer?
By: William Atkins
Called “the most expensive scientific experiments ever built,” $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) may end up in storage and never get the chance to search the universe for antimatter.
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By: William Atkins
Called “the most expensive scientific experiments ever built,” $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) may end up in storage and never get the chance to search the universe for antimatter.
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Has first evidence of another universe been seen?
By: William Atkins
Astronomers announced in August 2007 the discovery of a large hole at the edge of our universe. Since then, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton and colleagues have claimed it is an “unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.”
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By: William Atkins
Astronomers announced in August 2007 the discovery of a large hole at the edge of our universe. Since then, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton and colleagues have claimed it is an “unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.”
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Surfing the universe, part-time physicist snowboarding toward explanation of everything
By: William Atkins
U.S. physicist Garrett Lisi is working on an explanation of the Theory of Everything, a theory that would explain everything in the universe.
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By: William Atkins
U.S. physicist Garrett Lisi is working on an explanation of the Theory of Everything, a theory that would explain everything in the universe.
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