Tag Archive for 'Universe'

These panels show different components of near-infrared background light detected by the NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope in deep-sky surveys. The one on the upper left is a mosaic of images taken over a ten-year period. When all the stars and galaxies are masked, the background signals can be isolated, as seen in the second and third panels. The one on the upper right reveals ‘intrahalo light’ from rogue stars torn from their host galaxies, and the lower panel captures the signature of the first galaxies formed in the Universe. Image credit: Ketron Mitchell-Wynne / University of California, Irvine.

New Method Helps Detect Signs of Primordial Galaxies

Sep 9, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has generated the most accurate statistical description yet of early galaxies as they existed in the Universe about...

Upper image: 3D diagram of the magnetic wormhole, showing how the magnetic field lines (red) leaving a magnet on the right pass through the wormhole. Bottom: in terms of magnetism the wormhole is undetectable, which means that the magnetic field seems to disappear on the right only to reappear on the left in the form of a magnetic monopole. Image credit: Jordi Prat-Camps, Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Spanish Scientists Create Magnetic Wormhole

Sep 4, 2015 by News Staff

A team of physicists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, has constructed and experimentally demonstrated a magnetic wormhole – an object...

Installation of the CMS beam pipe. Image credit: CERN / CMS Collaboration.

CERN Physicists Produce ‘Littlest’ Quark-Gluon Plasma

Sep 4, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have produced a quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter...

$Herschel images of a small fraction of the galaxies analyzed in the new study. The images have a size of 5 x 5 arcsec2. The circle has a radius of 1.5 arcsec. Image credit: Stephen Eales et al.$

Astronomers Find First Direct Evidence of Galaxy ‘Metamorphosis’

Aug 28, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers has shown that a large proportion of galaxies have undergone a major ‘metamorphosis’ since they were initially...

Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million miles by NASA’s EPIC camera on the DSCOVR satellite. Image credit: NOAA / NASA / U.S. Air Force.

Earth’s Mineralogy is Unique in Cosmos, Scientists Say

Aug 26, 2015 by News Staff

The mineral diversity of Earth is unique and could not be duplicated anywhere in the cosmos. That’s according to a group of researchers, led by Dr Robert...

Artist’s impression of a black hole and a normal star. Image credit: L. Calcada / ESO.

Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Don’t Destroy Information, Store It in 2D Hologram

Aug 26, 2015 by News Staff

On Tuesday, famous theoretical physicist Prof Stephen Hawking presented his latest ideas on black holes – and the possible passage of information...

A galaxy from the GAMA survey observed at different wavelengths from the far UV to the far IR. Image credit: ICRAR / GAMA.

Universe is Slowly Fading, Astronomers Say

Aug 11, 2015 by News Staff

A group of astronomers studying more than 221,000 galaxies has measured the energy generated within a large portion of space more precisely than ever before,...

An image of the distribution of GRBs on the sky at a distance of 9 billion light-years, centered on the newly-discovered ring-like structure; the positions of the GRBs are marked by blue dots, and the Milky Way is indicated for reference, running from left to right across the image. Image credit: Lajos Balazs.

Astronomers Discover Ring-Like Structure 5.6 Billion Light-Years Across

Aug 5, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from Hungary and the United States has announced the discovery of the largest regular formation in the observable Universe –...

The supervoid. Image credit: István Szapudi et al.

Supervoid: Astronomers Find Large ‘Hole’ in Universe

Apr 21, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Istvan Szapudi of the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy has discovered a large supervoid...

Astronomers have reported near-infrared interferometric measurements of the angular size of Nova Delphini 2013, starting one day after the explosion and continuing with extensive time coverage during the first 43 days. The image shows Tycho's supernova remnant. Image credit: X-ray - NASA / CXC / SAO; infrared - NASA / JPL-Caltech; optical - MPIA / Calar Alto / O.Krause et al.

Type Ia Supernovae More Diverse than Thought

Apr 13, 2015 by News Staff

Type Ia supernovae, which are bright beacons used as distance markers both for studying the expansion rate of the Universe, and for measuring cosmological...

The background image in this composite shows the Hubble image of the region known as the Hubble Deep Field South. New observations using VLT’s MUSE instrument have detected remote galaxies that are not visible to Hubble; two examples are highlighted in this composite view; these objects are completely invisible in the Hubble picture but show up strongly in the appropriate parts of the three-dimensional MUSE data. Image credit: ESO / MUSE Consortium / R. Bacon.

ESO’s VLT Telescope Sees Deep Universe in 3D

Feb 26, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have been able to get...

This artist's impression shows the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures they inhabit; these alignments are over billions of light-years and are the largest known in the Universe. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

Mysterious Alignment of Quasar Axes with Universe’s Large-Scale Structures Revealed

Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

European astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have found that the rotation axes of quasars are parallel to each other over very long distances...

Concept of a dark-matter search using atomic clocks; by monitoring time discrepancies between two spatially separated clocks one could search for the passage of topological defects, such as the domain wall pictured here. Image credit: A. Derevianko & M. Pospelov.

GPS Might be Tool in Detecting Mysterious Dark Matter, Physicists Say

Nov 18, 2014 by News Staff

Two physicists – Dr Maxim Pospelov from the University of Victoria and Prof Andrei Derevianko of the University of Nevada, Reno – have proposed...

The Many Interacting Worlds approach hinges on the assumption that interactions between deterministically evolving worlds cause all quantum effects. Image credit: City University of New York.

Many Interacting Worlds: Physicists Propose Existence, Interaction of Parallel Universes

Nov 3, 2014 by News Staff

Parallel universes really exist and interact, says a team of scientists from the University of California Davis and Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia....

This image shows a star forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image credit: ESA / Hubble.

Universe is Not Expanding After All, Controversial Study Suggests

May 23, 2014 by News Staff

According to a team of astrophysicists led by Eric Lerner from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, the Universe is not expanding at all. This image shows a star...

Large scale projection through the Illustris volume at z=0, centered on the most massive cluster, 15 Mpc/h deep. Image credit: Illustris Collaboration.

First Realistic Virtual Universe Created

May 8, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer...

This image, with taken with the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager, shows the quasar QSO 1549+19; blue shows hydrogen gas surrounding and inflowing to the quasar. Image credit: Christopher Martin / Robert Hurt.

Astronomers Directly Observe Intergalactic Medium

Apr 30, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager has captured stunning images of the intergalactic medium – the diffuse gas...

CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, which has been used to confirm a population of Fast Radio Bursts, is shown superimposed on an image showing the distribution of gas in our Galaxy; an artist's impression of a single fast radio burst is shown located well away from the Galactic plane emission (Swinburne Astronomy Productions)

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Radio Bursts from Young Universe

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists has detected mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from cosmological distances when the Universe was just half...

Planck Scientists: Universe is 100 Million Years Older than Previously Estimated

Mar 25, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists using ESA’s Planck satellite have released the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Cosmic microwave...

Hubble Captures Deepest Ever View of Universe

Sep 26, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers have assembled a new portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe by combining 10 years of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observations. This...

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