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Category: Cosmology
Cassini Finds Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion
08 Jul, 2007 | CATEGORY: Cosmology | SOURCE: Physorg | Comments
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed details of Saturn's moon Hyperion, including cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread presence in our solar system of basic chemicals necessary for life.
Andromeda clocks a trillion stars
08 Jun, 2007 | CATEGORY: Cosmology | SOURCE: BBC | Comments
Pauline Barmby of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, US, and her team found that the spiral galaxy, our nearest neighbouring galaxy, has about a trillion stars (Give or take a few hundred million here and there).
Astronomers expect to detect the most distant galaxies yet
16 May, 2006 | CATEGORY: Cosmology | SOURCE: BBC | Comments
UK and Australian astronomers are about to use a new instrument to detect the most distant galaxies yet observed. 'Dazle', a special redshift telescope, is tuned to search for specific infrared wavelengths of light that should be associated with some of the first stars to shine in the Universe.
Was the universe made for us?
16 May, 2006 | CATEGORY: CosmologyThe Beautiful Cosmos | SOURCE: New Scientist | Comments
Discussion on the science of the so called anthropic principle. (Requires subscription to New Scientist online articles)
Before the Big Bang
15 Dec, 2005 | CATEGORY: Cosmology | SOURCE: DISCOVER | Comments
Maverick cosmologists contend that what we think of as the moment of creation was simply part of an infinite cycle of titanic collisions between our universe and a parallel world.