Cosmology
Shedding New Light on the Cosmic Dark Ages
[/caption] From a University of Cambridge press release: Remnants of the first stars have helped astronomers get closer to unlocking…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Apparent Superluminal Motion
[/caption] The recent list of Universe Today's Top 10 Stories of 2010 included the story Faster than Light Pulsars Discovered…
First Observational Evidence Other Universes?
In the realm of far out ideas in science, the notion of a multiverse is one of the stranger ones.…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Edge of Greatness
[/caption] The so-called End of Greatness is where you give up trying to find more superlatives to describe large scale…
Penrose: WMAP Shows Evidence of ‘Activity’ Before Big Bang
[/caption] Have scientists seen evidence of time before the Big Bang, and perhaps a verification of the idea of the…
A Cosmologist’s Wish List: Four Most-Wanted Discoveries
Cosmology is a fairly young science, one which attempts to reconstruct the history of our Universe from billions of years…
Cosmologist Allan Sandage Dies
[/caption] Cosmologist Allan R. Sandage, who helped define the fields of observational cosmology and extragalactic astronomy, died November 13, 2010,…
Herschel Provides Gravitational Lens Bonanza
[/caption]One of the predictions of Einstein's predictions from general relativity was that gravity could distort space itself and potentially, act…
ISS Particle Detector Ready to Unveil Wonders of the Universe
[/caption] The Principal Investigator (P.I.) for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS-02) experiment, Professor Samuel Ting, says that the experiment is…
Astronomers Find Giant Structures From the Early Universe
[/caption] Looking back to when our Universe was about half the age it is now, astronomers have discovered the most…