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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, light took off, then traveled 13.2 billion light-years until it was finally picked up by NASA's telescopes. Astronomers have identified the furthest galaxy ever using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. The light captured by the telescope was from when the universe was just 500 million years old, according to NASA. "This galaxy is the most distant object we have ever observed...
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Duluth resident and long-time loyal blood donor Jon Nelson is now the proud owner of a new all-terrain vehicle (ATV), thanks to Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) and a random drawing in a special promotion sponsored by Memorial Blood Centers. Throughout the month of July, volunteers who stepped up to give blood with Memorial Blood Centers became eligible to enter the Fishing for Donors campaign with a chance to win the...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced that James M. Gower, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, is scheduled to present a company overview at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference in New York City on Thursday, September 20th at 4:30 p.m. ET. To access the live webcast of the presentation or the subsequent archived recording, log on to www.rigel.com. Please connect to Rigel's website...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Since the 1990's, dark energy has been the most accepted hypothesis to explain the expansion rate of the Universe. A hypothetical form of energy, dark energy is thought to permeate all of space and accounts for about 73% of the total mass-energy of the universe. According to a team of astronomers from the University of Portsmouth and LMU University Munich, dark energy isn't so theoretical anymore. They say, it is really there....
Howard Bloom, who’s been called “the next Stephen Hawking” and the “Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st Century,” has written a monumental new tome for anyone curious about the beginning, middle, and end of the cosmos. Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) September 10, 2012 How does an inanimate universe manage the God-like feat of creating itself from absolutely nothing? And what enables it, after pulling itself up by its own cosmic bootstraps, to continue to generate billions of...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online If the eyes are the windows to your soul, the stars are the windows to our galactic past because they can unveil the history of our Universe. The farther away a star is, the older it is. The Universe is estimated to be 14 billion years old, but our current telescopes can only see galaxies about 700 million years old and only then when the galaxy is unusually large or as the result of a big event like a stellar explosion. An...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Dark matter comprises a large portion of the Universe, filling the space between galaxies and stars. Since the prediction of dark matter some 70 years ago, researchers from a myriad of disciplines – astronomers, cosmologists, and even particle physicists – have been looking for answers to what dark matter could be. New observations from the Planck satellite may bring researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute closer than ever to a...
Watch the Video: A Snail Sex Story April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online From egg-laying to hatching, the male marine whelk, Solenosteira macrospira, does all the work – even though few of the babies are his. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have classified S.macrospira as belonging to a small club of reproductive outliers characterized by male-only childcare. Throw in extensive promiscuity and sibling cannibalism, and the species has one of the...
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. continues its commitment to continual product improvement with the introduction of the TailSweep Pro(TM) and additional enhancements to its market-leading, premium, Polaris® pressure pool cleaner, the Polaris 3900 Sport. A global team of Zodiac engineers captured data from the field and within controlled testing environments to determine key improvement areas wanted by customers. The result is a new and improved...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A debate that has been raging over the distribution of matter in the universe can finally be put to bed thanks to the WiggleZ Dark Matter survey that was conducted over 276 nights from August 2006 to January 2011. The majority of physicists believe that the matter in the universe is distributed evenly on the largest scales and this outlook has fueled everything from Einstein’s equations to calculations that are the foundation for the...
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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...
