970 results for "galaxies"

Posted on Apr 13, 2015 About 160 globular clusters have been spotted encircling our galaxy, the Milky Way, mostly toward its central bulge. These clusters are among the oldest objects...

Posted on Mar 27, 2015 in Uncategorized The existence and stability of atoms relies heavily on the fact that neutrons are slightly more mas-sive than protons. The experimentally determined masses...

"While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this "large quasar group" (LQG), we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe,"...

The largest known structure in the universe has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The large quasar group (LQG -a portion shown above)) is so large that it...

Could both gravity and the Big Bang be an illusion? In January 2010, Erik Verlinde, professor of Theoretical Physics and world-renowned string theorist, caused a worldwide stir with the publication...

Posted on Oct 22, 2012 in Uncategorized                           The Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole may soon devour much...

Posted on Oct 6, 2012 in Uncategorized           "1. Where are they? We'll you might be able to ask that with a more informed position if...

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 in Uncategorized             Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure...

Dark matter makes up the majority of mass in our universe. However, we cannot directly measure the stuff as it doesn’t interact with electromagnetic radiation (i.e. it doesn’t emit or...

Posted on Mar 7, 2012 in Uncategorized            The discovery last year of a vast section of a spiral, star-forming arm at the Milky Way’s outskirts...

Posted on Jan 14, 2012 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science, Space The worldview of the cosmos as a biological universe is a revolutionary perspective as profound a revision in our way...

Posted on Jan 11, 2012             The Kepler Space Mission's search for habitable planets in a tiny window representing 1/400th of the Milky is proving Arthur...

Posted on Sep 15, 2011 in Uncategorized A dwarf galaxy named Sagittarius loaded with dark matter has careened twice through our much larger home galaxy in the past two billion...

China's Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) announced Thursday that the National Radio Astronomy Observatory has been monitoring signals...

Posted on Aug 24, 2010   In the current search for advanced  extraterrestrial life SETI experts say the odds favor detecting alien AI rather than biological life because the time...

Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing...

Late in 2009 year we witnessed the largest explosion ever recorded: a super giant star two hundred times bigger than the sun utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by...

Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14...

Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing...

The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head...