Big Bang News - Space Science News RSS FeedsSpace Science :: Big BangBig Bang News Stories, Current Big Bang News Events, Discoveries and Articleshttp://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Big_Bang Big Bang News Stories Current Big Bang News Events, Discoveries and Articles 'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature at 787 million years post Big Bang. (2009-11-09) Blast from the past gives clues about early universe Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the Universe -- a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). (2009-10-29) Vanderbilt astronomers participate in new search for dark energy The most ambitious attempt yet to trace the history of the universe has seen "first light." The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), took its first astronomical data on the night of Sept. 14-15 at the Sloan Foundation telescope in New Mexico. (2009-10-02) James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape at Goddard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for testing in the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility. (2009-09-16) To understand the universe, science calls on the ultrasmall Will the universe expand outward for all of eternity and end in a vast, dark, cold, sterile, diffuse nothingness? Or will the "Big Bang" - the gargantuan explosion that formed the universe 14 billion years ago - end in the "Big Crunch?" (2009-08-17) First Black Holes Born Starving The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists Marcelo Alvarez and Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and John Wise, formerly of KIPAC and now of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (2009-08-11) First black holes kept to a strict diet, study shows A new supercomputer simulation designed to track the fate of the universe's first black holes finds that, counter to expectations, they couldn't efficiently gorge themselves on nearby gas. (2009-08-11) Simulations Illuminate Universe's First Twin Stars The earliest stars in the universe formed not only as individuals, but sometimes also as twins, according to a paper published today in Science Express. (2009-07-10) Intense heat killed the Universe's would-be galaxies, researchers say Our Milky Way galaxy only survived because it was already immersed in a large clump of dark matter which trapped gases inside it. (2009-07-01) Fog lifted on 'dark' gamma-ray bursts, mysterious counterparts to bursts with an afterglow Gamma-ray bursts, with their ability to pierce through gas and dust to shine brightly across the universe, are revealing areas of intense star formation and stellar death where astronomers have been unable to look - the dusty corners of otherwise dust-free galaxies. (2009-06-09) |
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