Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Proof of Big Bang

New NASA space-probe observations of the oldest light in the cosmos are the most direct evidence yet that the universe expanded extremely quickly immediately after the big bang, physicists say..........

National Geographic News

Friday, March 10, 2006

Huge Star Burst from the Dawn of Time

A gigantic star that lived fast and died young in a huge cosmic explosion soon after the dawn of time has been detected by astronomers looking back into the infancy of the universe.The cataclysmic event took place 12.8 billion years ago, just 900 million years after the Big Bang, and has provided scientists with their first opportunity to study an individual star that formed so far back in time..........

The Australian

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Liquid Water Geysers Discovered on Saturn Moon

Scientists have found evidence that cold, Yellowstone-like geysers of water are issuing from a moon of Saturn called Enceladus, apparently fueled by liquid reservoirs that may lie just tens of yards beneath the moon's icy surface..........

MSNBC

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Researchers Predict Powerful Sunspots

Solar researchers are predicting that the next cycle of sunspots, flares and magnetic storms from the sun will be the most powerful and active seen in nearly 50 years..........

Scripps Howard News

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Largest Ever Galaxy Portrait

This new Hubble image reveals the gigantic Pinwheel galaxy, one of the best known examples of “grand design spirals”, and its supergiant star-forming regions in unprecedented detail. The image is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever released from Hubble..........

Science Daily