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Young Galaxies Have Surprisingly Strong Magnetic Fields: Contradicts Popular Theories

Tomas — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:13:13 +0000

The origin of magnetic fields in galaxies is still a mystery to astronomers. Popular theories suggest continual strengthening over billions of years.

The Worlds Biggest Camera to Survey 300 Million Galaxies

Tomas — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:24:31 +0000

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) camera will map 300 million galaxies using the Blanco 4-meter telescope - a large telescope with new advanced optics at Chile’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American...

59 big bangs Hubble space telescope snaps galaxies as they smash into each other

Harshpaul — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:04:34 +0000

New images taken by the Hubble space telescope show galaxies spinning, sliding and smashing into each nother, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new and larger...

Scientists Discover 'Teenager Galaxies'

AP — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:12:51 +0000

Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world’s most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours.An international group of researchers...

Biggest Cosmic Smash ever observed, four huge galaxies crash in

Madan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:51:06 +0000

Collision or merger of two galaxies, mostly one large galaxy and several small ones is common in the Universe. Astronomers have also observed some major mergers among the pair of galaxy similar in size. But, US team of astronomers observed one...

XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra observes merger of two galaxies

Madan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:41:39 +0000

The satellite data as observed by XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray had led Renato Dupke and his colleagues from the University of Michigan witness the merger of two galaxies at speed of more than 2,000 miles per second. This...

and#8216;Gravitational Lensingand#8217; helps astronomers find farthest known galaxies

Anupam — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:51:48 +0000

Universe as I always say is a cloud of mysteries and not many of these have yet been answered by astronomers. To answer these questions one has to go back in time. No, I am not talking about a time machine, as the best way to go back in time is...

AEGIS Survey demonstrates new principle of galaxy formation

Anupam — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:11:04 +0000

Researchers involved with AEGIS have carefully selected 544 distant galaxies to learn how galaxies take their mature forms. Galaxies are born small and eventually grow when they start taking a mature form. The galaxies that are examined...

Hubble shoots a diverse cluster of galaxies

Anupam — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:12:42 +0000

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has shot an image of a diverse cluster of galaxies called the Abell S0740. The cluster shows images that are around 450 million light-years from earth and in constellation Centaurus. At the center of...

Universe is 1.5-times richer in Calcium than expected

Anupam — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:09:40 +0000

Astronomers at the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have made observations with the ESA’s XMM-Newton X-Ray observatory and have concluded that our Universe is 1.5 times richer in than previously expected. Our body elements...