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As understood from the latest Nature publication on Wednesday, 25March 2009, Russian-Italian science team of PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and...
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Antoinette K-Doe, widow of New Orleans musician Ernie K-Doe, the self-styled “Emperor of the Universe” known for his 1961 No. 1 hit...
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God the root cause of all confusion
Before you curse me under the breath please hold your horses
I am not saying that I am a non believer
I do believe that there is...
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Do you know what is the most important photo taken by mankind? If not, it is an image acquired by the Hubble Telescope in September 2003, which for 11 days was pointed...
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Astronomers have detected the most distant gamma-ray burst ever found. The cosmic explosion came from a star that detonated about 12.8 billion light years from...
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Gathering for what members of the international science community are calling
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Experts around the world are eagerly awaiting the switch on of the world’s biggest scientific experiment, and none more so than Professor Stephen Hawking.The...
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As far as cosmic questions go, it’s as good a one as any: When will our great universe cease to be, and shuffle our great^10^75-grandchildren off the mortal coil?...
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The future looks bright—maybe too bright. The sun is slowly expanding and brightening, and over the next few billion years it will eventually desiccate Earth, leaving...
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Astronomers use instruments called spectrographs to spread the light from celestial objects into its component colours, or frequencies, in the same way water droplets...
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Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic “stuff” called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.
made popular Aug 31 2008
Mortal Kombat will never get old, and I thank God for that, as the new title will continue to provide all the things you need to take the stress and anger out on...
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A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.
The most powerful...
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The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.
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Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
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Dayana Mendoza put a promising modeling career on hold to go for _ and win _ the Miss Universe crown.”Being a model is just great. You show a brand, a beautiful...
made popular Jul 22 2008
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Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Barack Obama is running for president of the United States or Mr. Universe.The Democratic presidential contender exercises...
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Get anything done yesterday? Because a galaxy at the edge of the known universe pumped out ten entire stars. Yes, stars, the great big sky-dominating fusion reactors...
made popular Jul 16 2008
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Miss USA has learned a simple lesson from her humiliating tumble during the Miss Universe pageant _ the second year in a row the American contestant has taken a...
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Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008.Mendoza and three other Latin Americans women made the final five at Sunday’s contest.The four...
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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...
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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...
made popular Apr 25 2008
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We all know that the visible part of the universe that is the stars, gases, planets and galaxies account for only one-sixth of the universe. The rest part of the...
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No doubt, Hubble still dominates with its presence in the outer space but Mars rovers and ISS have also thrilled us with images out of this world. With all these space...
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One of the most commonly asked questions our scientists receive is about the existence of life elsewhere in our universe. But answering a straight forward YES or NO,...
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One of the great scientific instruments of all time, which has given the clearest pictures of galaxies forming in the very early universe, is looking straight into the...
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One of the great scientific instruments of all time, which has given the clearest pictures of galaxies forming in the very early universe, is at the mercy of the...
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The new Hubble images are no doubt telling us a great deal, about how the Galaxies might have behaved in their initial stages. The new image is the best demonstration...
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Apparently Namibia has heaviest meteorite ever found on the planet: ‘the Hoba meteorite in the Otjozondjupa Region, which weighed 66 tons when it crashed into...
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There is a huge intergalactic shock wave, or “sonic boom” in the middle of Stephan’s Quintet, a group of galaxies which is now the scene of a gigantic...
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How are the massive galaxies in our universe formed? A study by an academic at The University of Nottingham gives us the first observational evidence for this. The...
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To be successful in an oblivion venture all that is needed is not only painstaking calculations and a really big telescope a€’ but, bolstered optimism. Then...
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