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John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In order to illuminate the darkness we turn to the light. Whether the sun, a lamp, or a candle, we rely on electromagnetic radiation to reveal the world, and indeed the Universe, around us. Everything that we see - every tree, every planet, and every star - we see because it emits, reflects, bends and focuses light to our eyes. Without the interaction of matter with light, we are blind. But what about matter that does...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Permabit Technology Corporation, the recognized leader in storage efficiency technology, today announced that company President and CEO Tom Cook has been invited to participate in special roundtable discussions at the upcoming Pacific Crest Securities Emerging Technology Summit in San Francisco February 12-13. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120620/LA27917LOGO) Pacific Crest's 2013 Emerging Technology Summit will include...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Studying the physics of the universe can be a controversial and often contradictory proposition, with theories and calculations often not matching with observations. However, new research from Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam in Germany, has shed some light on one situation involving differences between theory and observation. Scientists at the institute have found that a phenomenon known as “cosmic web stripping” is...
Three extraordinary programs awarded $20,000 each in 5(th) year of national competition SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) and The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation are pleased to announce the recipients of the Fifth Annual Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving Legacy Awards. The Awards program was established through a grant to FCA's National Center on Caregiving. A distinguished panel of...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are partnering up on the Euclid mission to investigate dark matter and dark energy together. The Euclid space telescope will launch in 2020 with about a 4-feet-diameter telescope and two scientific instruments that will map the shape, brightness and 3D distribution of two billion galaxies. With the mission, "scientists hope to solve key problems in our understanding of the evolution and fate...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Astronomers using the CSIRO radio telescope have discovered that the Universe's temperature has cooled down, which falls right in line with the Big Bang theory. An international team of astronomers from Sweden, France, Germany and Australia used the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array near Narrabi to measure how warm the Universe was when it was half its current age. "This is the most precise measurement ever made of how the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows multiple arcs around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth. Betelgeuse and its arc-shaped shields could be colliding with a dusty "wall" in the next 5,000 years, according to ESA. The red supergiant star sits at the constellation Orion the Hunter, and can easily be seen with the naked eye in the northern hemisphere winter night sky as an orange-red star to...
Jedidiah Becker for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Over the years, the British cosmologist and theoretical physicist extraordinaire Stephen Hawking has become as well known for his ability to translate mind-boggling research about the universe into language that’s accessible to the layman as he is for his groundbreaking theoretical work in gravitational singularities and black hole radiation. This month, Cambridge’s wheelchair-bound conqueror of the cosmos turns 71. In honor...
New Book is a Trove of Incisive Insights on the Evolution of the Universe QUEBEC (PRWEB) January 15, 2013 The Big Bang theory is the prevailing paradigm in cosmology. In his new book, “Bright Hole Cosmos: and Multibang Dynamics”, author Andre Trepanier explores this cosmological model as he leads the way to a fascinating journey in the understanding of the evolution of the universe. Trepanier’s goal for writing his groundbreaking treatise is to challenge some of the main tenets of...
A cerebral volume that basically presents the analyses of the human scientific knowledge and its significance and contribution to a better understanding of the creation of the universe and life on earth Brazil (PRWEB) January 12, 2013 The universe and life on earth are like a labyrinth that needed to be solved. They pose many questions that relentlessly seeking for answers. How the universe was created? How will it end? Did God made it? What is the truth about extra-terrestrial life,...
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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...
