Dark Matter
Turning On A Supermassive Black Hole
[/caption] ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray Space Observatory has just opened our eyes once again. While we…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
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Era of Space Shuttle Endeavour Ends with June 1 landing at the Kennedy Space Center
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew landed safely today at the Kennedy Space…
Australian Student Uncovers the Universe’s Missing Mass
[/caption] Not since the work of Fritz Zwicky has the astronomy world been so excited about the missing mass of…
AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe
The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – SLoWPoKES
[/caption] The Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars (SLoWPoKES) catalog was recently announced, containing 1,342 common proper motion…
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President Obama to Attend Endeavour’s Last Launch on April 29
[/caption] President Barack Obama and the entire First Family apparently plan to attend the final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour,…
Antigravity Could Replace Dark Energy as Cause of Universe’s Expansion
[/caption] Since the late 20th century, astronomers have been aware of data that suggest the universe is not only expanding,…
No Joy for Dark Matter Detector’s First 100 Days
[/caption] We’re still mostly in the dark about Dark Matter, and the highly anticipated results from the XENON100 detector has…
Cosmology 101: The End
[/caption] Welcome back to the third, and last, installment of Cosmology 101. So far, we've covered the history of the…