The Violent Birth of the 13-Billion-Year-Old Globular Star Clusters Orbiting the Milky Way
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When the Milky Way first formed, thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are perhaps 200 remaining, with most destroyed over the eons by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center. The surviving clsuters are... Read Full Story
Image of the Day: Antarctic's South Pole Telescope --Seeking Clues to a New Physics of the Universe
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Since 2007 University of Chicago researchers have used the South Pole Telescope in their attempt to help solve the cosmological mystery of dark energy. Little is known about this force, other than that it works against gravity and appears to... Read Full Story
"No Empty Space in the Universe" --Dark Matter Discovered to Fill Intergalactic Space
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New research concludes that instead of "edges," galaxies have long outskirts of dark matter that extend to nearby galaxies and that the intergalactic space is not empty but filled with dark matter.Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the... Read Full Story
Image of the Day: A Spectacular 20,000-Year-Old Supernova Remnant
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Thought to be about 20,000 years old — middle-aged for a such a structure — the W44 supernova remnant is located 9,800 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) not only detected W44, it actually... Read Full Story
Monday's 'Comment of the Day': "On Fermi's Paradox"
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"While all this conjecture may be entertaining, a few conclusions may be drawn: 1. If we are here.... and smart, chances are that others are here, and smarter! 2. Biology is a good starting block for intelligent life, but as... Read Full Story
NewsFlash: Obama Budget Slashes Mars Exploration Missions
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The budget proposed Monday by US President Barack Obama for fiscal year 2013 would slash $226 million from the US space agency's Mars exploration program, likely axing a planned partnership with Europe. While the overall proposal is to give NASA... Read Full Story
Neanderthal Art? 1st Paintings Discovered in Spain's Nerja Caves
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Paintings discovered in Spain's Nerja caves --discovered by boys hunting bats in 1959 –may prove be the oldest yet found, and the first ever to have been created by Neanderthals. Charcoal remains found beside six of the paintings have been... Read Full Story
"The Sun's Astrosphere" --Did Moving Outside the Interstellar Boundary Cause Earth's Mass Extinctions?
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“The matter in our solar system contain much more oxygen than alien particles,” said Seth Redfield, a non-mission expert to help verify results from the space agency’s ongoing IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) mission, an unmanned probe that analyzes the interstellar... Read Full Story
Sunday's 'Comment of Day': "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe"
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"I believe that an advanced species would probably try to dominate the cosmos. I also believe that advanced intelligence would be AI, and their ability to obtain energy and mass would be far greater than any biological system. In addition,... Read Full Story
Weekend Feature: Opening of Antarctic's Lake Vostok May Reveal Life from Earth's 20-Million-Year Past
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Russian scientists opened a frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, after drilling down and finally reaching the surface of 20-million-year-old Lake Vostok, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon. The gigantic buried freshwater reservoir... Read Full Story

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