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Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Barack Obama is running for president of the United States or Mr. Universe.
made popular Jul 17 2008
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...
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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 spill.
made popular Jul 14 2008
Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008.
made popular Jul 14 2008
The 2008 Miss Universe contest has begun, with 80 of the world’s most beautiful women competing to win one of the pageant world’s most coveted crowns.
made popular Jul 14 2008
Behind all the hugs and smiles, the 80 Miss Universe contestants are engaged in a fierce competition. But two contestants with perhaps the greatest reason for...
made popular Jul 13 2008
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...
made popular Jun 28 2008
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,...
made popular Jun 26 2008
Jerry Springer and Melanie Brown will co-host the 2008 Miss Universe pageant, which will air live from Nha Trang, Vietnam, on July 13.
made popular Jun 25 2008
The unusual properties of frozen water may have been the ticket that made life possible.
made popular Jun 23 2008
Black holes are the most fascinating features of space time yet discovered, regions where mass is compacted so densely that the values literally go off the scales and...
made popular Jun 11 2008
NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet yesterday and has started sending first pictures of the unexplored region. This flight...
made popular May 27 2008
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...
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Earth-like planets have relatively short windows of opportunity for life to evolve, making it highly doubtful intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe,...
made popular Apr 22 2008
COULD a Welshman be responsible for ending the world, then the entire universe? As bizarre as it sounds, that is what a federal court in the US will have to decide in...
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British physicist Peter Higgs said on Monday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible...
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Officials said Friday they have dropped an investigation into a beauty queen’s claim that her evening gown was doused with pepper spray, citing a lack of evidence...
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Scientists working at NASA have spotted the smallest black hole ever discovered. Its mass is less that four times the mass of the Sun and has the size of a large city....
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They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the...
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Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick...
made popular May 16 2008
Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still just a baby at 140 years old.
made popular May 14 2008
When stars more than eight times the size of Sun have consumed all their fuel reserves they end their lives in an enormous explosion termed as Supernova. After a...
made popular Jul 12 2007
NASA’s Swift satellite has shown two supernova events in quick succession. This is the first time that such an event has been recorded so close in time.
The...
made popular Jun 27 2007
On Wednesday astronomers declared about the two explosions that occurred in the year 2004 and 2006 in a galaxy at million light years from Earth. These explosions...
made popular Jun 14 2007
Astronomers have tried to explode a virtual Earth-sized star in a 3-D simulation model.
Finally these researchers have succeeded in developing a 3D simulation that has...
made popular Mar 24 2007
Black holes have captured our imagination and become the source of many science fiction stories and scientists have always tried to solve one or the other mysteries...
made popular Dec 29 2006
Sound might drive supernovae explosions! This is no fairy tale or a Hollywood fiction on the universe. Scientists have made this astonishing discovery. Dying stars...
made popular Feb 18 2006
The remnants of two exploded stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy produced a cat-shaped image. This image is revealed by composite X-ray (red and green)/optical...
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