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Galaxy Zoo Mergers Wants You!

EMBARGOED until: 24 November 2009 00:01 GMT ‘COSMIC SLOT MACHINE’ MATCHES GALAXY COLLISIONS A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a ‘cosmic slot machine’ and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of si ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 23 2009 - 9:02pm

Study Says Early Black Holes Grew In Gigantic, Starlike Cocoons

The first large black holes in the universe likely grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown away, says a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal A ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm

Galaxy Zoo vs John Henry

'Many eyes' is a better approach to image recognition than algorithms.  When looking at real-universe galaxy merger remnants, and comparing them with simulations, it's better to just have lots of people look at hundreds of possible results ( ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 27 2009 - 5:12pm

If Stars Wars characters were on Facebook...

If Darth Vader friend-requested you and you clicked "Ignore," do you think he would know? I don't think I'd take that chance... ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 23 2011 - 3:55pm

NSF Mosaic's 2-decade archive of science

Two things I like are open research and seeing my tax dollars get used effectively.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) just did both in one swoop.  As reported in detail on NASW, over two decades of earlier NSF work is now available online.  The magazi ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Dec 1 2009 - 4:02pm

GJ 758 B- A Giant Planet Or Would-Be Sun?

 Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758. Its mass is estimated to be between 10 and 40 Jupiter masses. Accordingly, it is either a giant planet or a brown ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm

SpaceShipTwo Debuts!

Virgin Galactic officially debuts SpaceShipTwo, named the VSS Enterprise, fast on the heels of their earlier ready for liftoff announcement in Wired.  From the Wired article, they noted ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Dec 8 2009 - 10:37am

Could Methane On Mars Mean Life?

A new study appearing tomorrow in Earth and Planetary Science Letters rules out the possibility that the methane on Mars was delivered by meteorites, boosting the theory that life exists on the red planet. Researchers had thought that meteorites might be r ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2009 - 12:04pm

Norwegian UFO? Russian Missile? Stargate?

An image straight out of a CGI powered sci-fi movie lit up the skies over Norway earlier today at 8:45 a.m. local time. The phenomenon appeared as a spinning spiral of white light, entered around a bright star-like object. A bright blue tail streamed from ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Dec 9 2009 - 4:16pm

Big Dipper Secret Ingredient- Alcor's Red Dwarf Companion

The Big Dipper has a secret, invisible to the unaided eye, according to a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, which says that one of the stars that makes the bend in the ladle's handle, Alcor, has a smaller red dwarf companion. Newly di ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm