ESA will present the world premiere of Touching the Edge of the Universe, a stunning new planetarium show, starting 7 May 2009 at 30 planetaria in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ...
An explosion originating near the edge of the universe has been seen by an orbiting NASA telescope.
... other heavy elements in our own galaxy, making it similar to primitive galaxies seen at the edge of the universe. Those galaxies emitted the light we now see soon after they and the universe formed. ...
... picked up with NASA's Swift satellite, which scans space looking for Gamma-ray bursts coming from the edge of the universe. "The sheer magnitude of this stellar flare is unprecedented, ...
... object.
"At first, we had no idea what it was. It could have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe," said Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team.
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... student Adi Zitrin and researchers from Cornell University, studied an area of the sky opposite the constellation ... you don't need to go to the edge of the universe to find dark matter. It may be only 15 ...
... instruments, like the planned 42-meter European ELT, will have the sensitivity to see galaxies at the edge of the universe, just as they were beginning to form. The ELTs will also be able to extract ...
Scientists have observed one of the oldest objects in the sky, possibly a galaxy in a growth spurt
... any previously detected by using a new technique that could help find other dying stars at the edge of the universe. This method has the potential to allow astronomers to study some of the very first ...
... , or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart; searching for galaxies at the edge of the universe; characterizing more than 700 near-Earth objects, or asteroids and comets with orbits that ...
... How many orders of magnitude will I cross when going from the microscopic quantum world to the edge of the universe? Are we humans some where in the middle between all these length scales?
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