How did the universe begin? June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 141 vote(s)
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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, ... | |
Could hadron collider devour the Earth? June 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Particle colliders creating black holes that could devour the Earth. Sounds like a great Hollywood script. But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Steve Giddings, it's pure fiction. | |
New computer simulations show how special the solar system is August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Prevailing theoretical models attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average in every way. Now a new study by Northwestern University astronomers, using recent data from the 300 exoplanets ... | |
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ... | |
 Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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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? ... | |
 Strange star stumps astronomers May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
 Earth: A Borderline Planet for Life? January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Our planet is changing before our eyes, and as a result, many species are living on the edge. Yet Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the beginning. New work by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian ... | |
Did the solar system 'bounce' finish the dinosaurs? May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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The sun’s movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system – coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a new study claims. | |
 100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in Russia June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this day. | |
 Death of massive star creates brightest burst ever seen March 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Gamma-Ray Bursts are the most powerful explosive events in the Universe. They occur in far-off galaxies and so are usually faint. But on the morning of March 19th 2008 the Swift satellite found a burst which ... | |
 Black holes have simple feeding habits June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity ... | |
 Hot Cyclones Churn at Both Ends of Saturn January 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Despite more than a decade of winter darkness, Saturn's north pole is home to an unexpected hot spot remarkably similar to one at the planet's sunny south pole. The source of its heat is a mystery. Now, the ... | |
 Galaxies Gone Wild April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies. A series ... | |
 The Pole star comes to life again July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Northern Star, whose vibrations were thought to be dying away, appears to have come to life again. | |
 XMM-Newton's massive discovery August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
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