NASA X-Ray Observatory Reveals Magnetars More Common Than Thought
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed that some of the most extreme objects in the universe may be more common than previously thought. Magnetars are the dense remains of dead...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Levi Ray & Shoup, Inc. (LRS) announced that it is acquiring Capella Technologies Inc. (Capella). After more than a decade of successful collaboration with Capella, Capella will become a division of LRS, a global leader in enterprise software for output management. Capella management and staff will continue to operate their business and service their traditional customers, markets, and partners. "We've been working with...
[ Watch the Video: Evolution of a Bubble Cluster ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have mathematically described the successive stages in the complex evolution and disappearance of foamy bubbles, something that could help in modeling industrial processes in which liquids mix, or in the formation of solid foams such as those used to cushion bicycle helmets. The mathematicians applied their equations to...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a study in the journal Nature, a team of international scientists has found the first ever direct evidence of pear-shaped atomic nuclei. Bizarre pear-shaped nuclei could be the key to understanding one of the great mysteries of the universe: the reason for the Big Bang’s creation of a massive imbalance between matter and antimatter. "If equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created at the Big Bang, everything...
KILAUEA, Hawaii, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking paper published last week sheds new light on the theory of gravity and the potential to significantly impact global issues facing the human race, including alternative energy sources. Nassim Haramein, Director of Research at the Hawaii Institute for Unified Physics (HIUP), has authored a paper titled "Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass," which has been validated and published in the peer review journal, Physical...
[ Listen to the Podcast Series: How Stars Die And Black Holes Form ] John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists have debated the merits of the anthropic principle – the notion that the universe is somehow fine-tuned for life, or vice versa – and its variants for decades. The search to understand the nature and evolution of the universe is what plagues the fields of cosmology and astrophysics. Are we here because we happened upon a universe set up...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a leading solar one-stop solution provider, today announced that it has introduced its upgraded new product ET Binary Star Series-Castor to the global market. Binary Star Series represents ET's new achievement in terms of enhanced design of the junction box, advanced process technology and improved overall performance. For Castor, the more scientifically designed junction boxes, in accordance with IEC...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Astronomers have snapped a very detailed image of the outer atmosphere of the red supergiant Betelgeuse. This star is the nearest red supergiant to Earth, easily visible to the unaided eye sitting on the top left shoulder of Orion the Hunter. Betelgeuse is about 1,000 times larger than our Sun and lies about 650 light years away from Earth. Astronomers took a new image with the e-MERLIN radio telescope array operated from the...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In 2011, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to a trio of researchers. Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt were able to determine that the speed and scope of the expansion of the universe is not so uniform as once believed. This simple discovery threw the whole prospect of dating and measuring time in galaxies far from our own. However, this week saw a multi-national collaboration come together to detail just how we...
Company Accepted Its First Mira Award from Techpoint, Honoring Its ASCENT(TM) Software-as-a-Service for Analytical Laboratories Indianapolis (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 TechPoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative, recognized Indigo Biosystems (Indigo), a provider of scientific software for analytical laboratories, as one of Indiana’s high-tech success stories during its annual Mira Awards gala presented by BKD CPAs & Advisors at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis on April...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Although he probably never expected a career in physics would warrant it, Stephen Hawking received a ‘rock star’ reception to his speaking engagement at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California on Tuesday. The 71-year-old scientist covered a wide range of topics during his speech, from the past and future of astrophysics to the existence of God. “It has been a glorious time to be alive and doing...
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Image Caption: The Hubble Extreme Deep Field (XDF) was completed in September 2012 and shows the farthest galaxies ever photographed by humans. Each speck of light in the photo is an individual galaxy, some of them as old as 13.2 billion years; the observable universe is estimated to contain more than 200 billion galaxies. Credit: NASA/Wikipedia What is Cosmology? I once commented to an acquaintance that I was fascinated by the field of Cosmology, and mused that if I had more time, I...
Physics is a natural science involving the study of matter and its motion through space-time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. On a broader scale, it also involves the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves. Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines, perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy. Physics was part of natural philosophy until the Scientific Revolution in the 16th century, when the natural...
Centaurus Constellation -- Centaurus (the centaur) was one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, and counts also among the 88 modern constellations. A constellation of the southern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and Aratus (3rd century B.C.), Ptolemy catalogued thirty-seven stars in it. It contains Proxima Centauri, the red dwarf that is the nearest known star (other than the Sun) to Earth, as well as Alpha Centauri, which is a double star to which Proxima...
Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos -- Stars are organised into galaxies which in turn appear to form clusters and superclusters, separated by voids. Prior to 1989 it was commonly assumed that the superclusters were the largest structures in existence, and that they were distributed more-or-less uniformly throughout the universe in every direction. However, in 1989, Margaret Geller and John Huchra discovered the "Great Wall", a sheet of galaxies more than 500 million light years long...
Cosmology -- area of science that aims at a comprehensive theory of the structure and evolution of the entire physical universe. Modern Cosmological Theories Present models of the universe hold two fundamental premises: the cosmological principle and the dominant role of gravitation. Derived by Hubble, the cosmological principle holds that if a large enough sample of galaxies is considered, the universe looks the same from all positions and in all directions in space. The second point...
