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Dark galaxy may be crashing into Milky Way
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | about 3 hours ago
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Now, according to a report in New Scientist, it appears that the object is massive enough to be a galaxy itself. Called Smith�s cloud, it has managed to avoid disintegrating during its smash-up with our own, much bigger galaxy. What�s more, its trajectory...
Tags: dark galaxy, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Milky Way, Dwarf galaxy, Interacting galaxy, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Local Group, Spiral galaxies, Galaxy
Unlikely finish awaits Galaxy
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Two teams that are happy to stop talking about how no one expected them to be here can finally get down to championship business this evening. The Galaxy, resurrected after a disastrous 2008 season, will face Real Salt Lake, which finished the regular...
Tags: David Beckham, Real Salt Lake, MLS, Landon Donovan, mls cup, England, Seattle Times, cup final, Seattle, Galaxy, Todd Dunivant, allnews, Sean Franklin, Chris Klein (actor), Dema Kovalenko, FIFA 100, Major League Soccer, Don Garber, Nick Rimando, Miami Fusion F.C., Kyle Beckerman, Victoria Beckham, Los Angeles Galaxy, Jason Kreis, Soccer in Canada, Seattle Sounders FC, Western Conference, Ned Grabavoy, Franz Beckenbauer, Pitsea, Franck Queudrue, English footballers
END WORLD 2012
In 2012 the Mayan calendar ends, in what some say is their prediction of the end of the world. The big question is: what exactly does this mean? In other words, what did the Mayans really intend by ending their world calendar on December 21, 2012... ...
Tags: END WORLD, Earth, New Age, Planetary science, Eschatology, Galaxy, millenarianism, Environment, Maya calendars, allnews, Technology Internet
Infrared telescope to detect dim, dusty objects (Reuters)
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The spacecraft, to be carried into orbit by a Delta 2 rocket, will roll out to its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday for a liftoff slated for as early as December 9, managers of the $320 million project said at a news briefing...
Tags: Los Angeles, Galaxy, Brown dwarf, The Universe, Celestia, Near-Earth object, Infrared telescopes, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Infrared, Technology Internet
High-Density Galaxy Puzzles Astronomers
Santiago :: Chile | 5 days ago
Credibility ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI) A high-density galaxy 11 billion light-years away that has been recently discovered is found to reflect the state of galaxies in the early stage of the universe. In August this year, for the first time in history, astronomers...
Tags: billion light, Chile, Santiago, Large-scale structure of the cosmos, Peculiar galaxies, Milky Way, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astronomy, Technology Internet, Spiral galaxies, Local Group, Galaxy
Jimmy Westlake: Looking down on the universe
Steamboat Springs :: CO :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Steamboat Springs Have you had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon and stroll out onto the new Skywalk? It’s a glass bridge that is suspended out over the canyon such that visitors can literally look down under their feet and see the depths of...
Tags: Grand Canyon, NGC, Steamboat Springs, Galactic astronomy, Milky Way, Galaxy, Coma Berenices, Herschel 400 Catalogue, Spiral galaxies, Local Group, Coma Berenices constellation
A Yardstick for the Universe
A decade ago scientists discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, not slowing down as they had long assumed. Understanding why, and determining the ultimate fate of the cosmos, depends on making more accurate measurements of distance...
Tags: Universe, Pakistan, Lahore, Galaxy, Adam Riess, Metric expansion of space, The Universe, Physical cosmology, Technology Internet, Cepheid variable, Hubbles law, allnews
Farthest galaxy from Earth found
A team of international scientists has identified the furthest known galaxy cluster from Earth. The cluster, known as JKC2041, lies some 10.2 billion light years from Earth, beating the previous record-holder by around a billion light years....
Farthest Ever Star Blast From Ancient Cosmos
Astronomers have detected a cosmic object more distant than any ever seen: a gamma ray burst about 13 billion light-years from Earth. The massive, luminous burst occurred about 600 million years after the Big Bang—that is, when the universe was...
Tags: Gamma ray, Gamma ray Burst, Star Blast, Ancient Cosmos, Earth, Galaxy, Milky Way, National Geographic, Bing Bang, Blast
Milky Way is much faster, heavier and accident prone
The Milky Way—our home galaxy—is rotating at a much faster rate, is much heavier and has a much higher likelihood of colliding with neighbouring galaxies than previously estimated, new findings presented on Monday suggest. Astronomers have...
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