2016-03-19 18:53
Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy (2/3/12)The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
M101: A Pinwheel in Many Colors (5/24/12)This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-b… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
A Spiral Within a Spiral (5/21/12)The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral… Read More
2012-04-25 04:47
A galaxy blooming with new stars (12/15/11)The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The new portrait is probably the most detailed wide-fie… Read More
2012-03-21 00:46
There was some very important news recently about neutrino oscillation, which I wrote about here. Rather than go into the details there, it seemed better to put them in a separate article, a… Read More
2012-01-04 02:50
A Twisted Dust Web in the Galaxy IC 342 (7/20/11)Looking like a spiders web swirled into a spiral, the galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this image from NASAs Spitzer Sp… Read More
2011-11-30 01:40
A Galaxy Full of Surprises — NGC 3621 is bulgeless but has three central black holesThis image, from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a truly remarkable galaxy known as NG… Read More
2011-09-20 08:10
Wide Field Imager view of a Milky Way look-alike, NGC 6744 (6/1/11)This picture of the nearby galaxy NGC 6744 was taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Si… Read More
2011-08-21 07:43
Amino acid alphabet soupVia Astrobiology Magazine, 8/19/11
All living creatures on this planet use the same 20 amino acids, even though there are hundreds available in nature. Scientists the… Read More
2011-08-11 07:10
A Spiral in Leo (8/10/11)
This new picture from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows NGC 3521, a spiral galaxy located about 35 million light years away in the constellation of Leo (The Li… Read More
2011-08-06 10:01
Dawn of the black holes(Science News) The seeds of the universe’s first black holes could have formed in gas halos much smaller than previously calculated, Canadian and American astron… Read More
2011-08-06 09:55
Black hole threesome revealed(Science News) Andy Warhol reportedly said, “One’s company, two’s a crowd and three’s a party.” New data reveal one heck of a black… Read More
2011-07-25 07:36
"Rose" of Galaxies (4/20/11)The newly released Hubble image shows a large spiral galaxy, known as UGC 1810, with a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pu… Read More
2011-06-04 04:58
A Perfect Spiral with an Explosive Secret (5/30/11)This spiral galaxy was discovered back in the nineteenth century by French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan, but in 2008 it bec… Read More
2011-04-19 08:34
Flocculent spiral NGC 2841Star formation is one of the most important processes in shaping the Universe; it plays a pivotal role in the evolution of galaxies and it is also in the earliest s… Read More
2011-03-11 09:16
Supermassive black hole in a type of galaxy where nobody expected to find one? Henize 2-10 is a small, mostly unremarkable compact dwarf galaxy. Its estimated dynamical mass is about 1010 M… Read More
2011-03-03 05:12
There's good evidence that massive black holes exist at the centers of most large galaxies having a central bulge, and even within galaxies that lack a central bulge, are small, or have an i… Read More
2011-02-28 03:26
Biologists are, at long last, beginning to understand the molecular processes responsible for aging in complex (multicellular) organisms – and to investigate ways to counteract these p… Read More
2011-02-07 08:56
It's been more than 10 years since it was noticed that certain enzymes – the sirtuins – had life-extending properties in organisms like yeast, and later nematodes, fruit flies, a… Read More
2011-02-07 08:55
♦ Sirtuin proteins (11/16/07)♦ The discovery of sirtuins, part 1 (11/17/07)♦ The discovery of sirtuins, part 2 (11/20/07)♦ Sirtuin news (1/21/08)♦ SIRT1 and can… Read More
2011-01-12 00:43
In our previous article on cyclotomic fields we were talking about why the Galois group G of ℚ(μn)/ℚ is isomorphic to (ℤ/nℤ)×, where n∈ℤ and μn… Read More
2011-01-03 10:02
A Great Ball of Stars (10/25/10)The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sharp eye towards a tight collection of stars, first seen 174 years ago. The result is a sparkling image of… Read More
2010-12-29 03:48
M87 (Messier 87), also known as NGC 4486, is a giant elliptical galaxy, located about 53.5 million light-years away. It is noteworthy for several reasons, including the presence of an unusua… Read More
2010-12-28 05:35
Pinwheel of Star Birth (10/19/10)This face-on spiral galaxy, called NGC 3982, is striking for its rich tapestry of star birth, along with its winding arms. The arms are lined with pink star… Read More
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